The days are getting closer to when we have our own goats. As stated in another post, we have decided to go the pet/meat path for now instead of dairy goats. I know goats shouldn’t be seen as pets and meat at the same time. But my goal is to have meat goats…but for now may be considered pets. I don’t think at first that I will be able to do the butchering. I think it might be easier to take them somewhere. I think it will be too easy to get attached to only two or three goats as apposed to many.
So in preparation we have measured out a 100′ by 100′ enclosure which will include our old metal shed. The roof on the shed had holes rusted through it and holes in the plywood. Last night we cleaned out the shed and I ripped off and replaced the roof with some leftover metal roofing I had from our house re-roofing project. Everything went real easy and quickly.
Shed roof repair
I also started weed whacking around the perimeter of the area we are going to fence so that installing the fence will be easy.
Our next steps will be making a better floor in the shed for the goats and then purchasing the fence and fencer. We were going to go with the electric netting fence, which is quite expensive. But we talked with a friend of ours who suggested that we use 4 strands of 9-wire electric fence and get a mature goat along with one or two that are still young. So the older goat will be familiar with electric wire fence and also know how to graze.
This route will be much less expensive and allow us to expand our pasture area over time.
Some our pasture
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