New Fence and Learn to Farm Day

We put up a new cross fence last week. We had been using an electric fence as a cross fence but it did not work out as well as we wanted. It did not work for the things we really needed it for like weaning the baby goats and keeping the billy goat away from the nanny goats when we did not want them breeding. They would go right through in those instances when they really wanted to. So, we finally decided to build a real cross fence. We put it up pretty fast, it took us about four evenings after work. I am really happy to have a good cross fence, it really helps a lot and it looks a lot better than the electric fence. Here is a pic.



I also wanted to announce another Learn to Farm day this Saturday. We will be fixing fence. We have one more section of fence that we need to fix that was damaged in the ice storm. This will require taking down the section that is messed up and putting up a new section and stretching it. At the same time I need to cut down a tree that is behind the chicken coop that is dieing. The only direction that I can make the tree fall is in the direction of this fence that needs to be fixed. So, I am going to cut it in the middle of taking down the old fence and putting up the new. If any of you are interested in learning how to put of fence or want to help cut a tree in a very precise direction you should come on out to the farm. We are planning on doing this on Saturday morning so if you want to help let us know.