More fencing fun
May 18, 2011
As I've said many times before: fencing is an art. Especially with regards to sheep and goats, who, when placed together, provide the perfect cocktail of straight-ahead bluntness and creative circumvention of barriers to make them almost impossible to keep in, at least with the wrong fence.
For two years now, we have futily tried to use single strand electric fence configured in five or six rows to keep in our animals. And for the second year in a row, they are everywhere but in the fence once they've gotten tired of a pasture. I can see Emma right now outside the window punching down berry bines in an effort to run our chicken netting around a nice chunk of browse for everyone. Hopefully this will work.
In fact, experience tells us that the netting works wonderfully, and if we could relax our cash flow a little, we could purchase a few more lengths and really be good to go. For now, however, we'll have to make do with what we have and keep juggling the animals freedom versus our frustration quotient.
Of course, little babies don't make this any easier. Especially when they don't know any better than to wander, slowly, across Route 166A.
