Fence Post

Our recent days have been filled with fencing, or lack of it.  Combine our inexperience of electric with some stubborn, determined and sneaky goats and pigs, and you get frustration!  It is the hard way, but the boys and Paul are learning a lot.  TJ is becoming a master electric fencing guy and gets to learn something new every time the pigs squeeze out, root the posts up with their noses, or discover that electricity is not flowing.  The kids (goats) love to be around us, so they look for every opportunity to find a weakness (and even get into the house).    

   

We have learned there can’t be too much brush near the line, and how not to set it up over a depression in the ground.  Unfortunately the semi-permanent electric fence that was already here was not installed well (too much slack between posts and weak connections).  I guess they were fine for cattle, a more compliant animal.  We will be working on this for a while. 

Keena: "Yeah, those posts are striaght & even!"

Patience and self-control are the other things we are learning.  Every time I hear, “Uuuugh,” outside or from a window, I know something got out.  They are learning how to heard pigs.  It is most difficult to get them away from the oak tree.  Remember, Piglet loves his “haycorns” and I think it is our pigs' favorite too.