Author: Todd Miles
Date: 10-31-06 15:18
I don't work at Premier. This is sort of a follow on question for discussion.A few people around here have given up on perimeter fencing, and their ideas have me thinking. Fence that is not grazed both sides is always a pain anyway. The "new" school of thought is to mow the perimeter (give up trying to graze it and the thought that the animals can do the work), and to set up netting on nice clean grass a few feet inside the field. I tried it on one section this year, and it saved a lot of work. With this method you mow where you are putting the fence, put up the fence, graze it, and move the fence before the grass grows enough to short it out. In your case, you would cut a lane through the brush, and have a clean place to put the fence. In my experience, goats never graze where or on what you want them to, unless you make it painful to do otherwise. The Premier 42 inch tall netting really works as long as you keep it well energized, and free of shorting growth. It is hard to use as a perimeter, because of shorting from the ungrazed side. That is why a foot or two of cleared space outside the fence works so well.
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