HELP! I need ideas. We lost our livestock housing....snow collapsed it. Our goats are in the outside pen with a 4 x 6 wooden structure. We can't lock it up. Now we have soooooo much snow they are just jumping / walking over their 4 ft fence. We have some great contributors who have experienced winter conditions like these before. This is my first one and I will try anything just throw it out there!!!!
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Thank you everyone! My husband and I spent the entire morning with a snow blower and shovels. We went around the edge of the inside and outside of the pen and left a pile in the middle for climbing. I hope this will keep them in for today. Now it is icing again.
Set up your livestock panels and if you have an extra one - put it on top. I've got babies in the house right now who have figured out how to knock the sides down on the playpen - so I put fence across the top then two table leves on top of that. Doesn't take them long to figure out how to get out and sometimes you just need to pen them from all sides.
If you can get livestock panels, you can set them up on top of the snow, and as it melts, they'll go down with it.
S. Rhoades said:
Thank you. Any ideas about how to keep them fenced in so they don't become a snack. They are currently walking over a 4 foot fence and they are still under 1 year old.
Thank you. Any ideas about how to keep them fenced in so they don't become a snack. They are currently walking over a 4 foot fence and they are still under 1 year old. There is a path where I walk, but they seem to float on the snow. I have tried to break up the snow so they can not get to the fence as easily, but mother nature keeps bringing more. I used livestock panels until the snow interfered with that and they have been in a more permanent fenced area since the snow began. How do people keep the snow from building up to fence levels in other areas?
Pretty much anything that works with dogs will work with NDs since they're about the same size, so if you have a dog house, dog crate, doggy playpen, etc., you can use it with the goats. Put plenty of straw in a dog house or crate though, because unlike dogs, the goats will pee and poop in there, so you need the straw to absorb the urine and mess. Does that help?
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