Ober Campers

[IdahoNancy]

My 2 favorite set ups in camp. We use and E-Z up canopy, 10x10, zip on walls, with a portable electric fence, and a solor charger. This is for car camping. The other set up is with a nylon tarp 10x12. This picture has the electric fence in use but this is also our back pack set up. The homemade gortex fleece lined goat coats are in use for bad weather.

[Charlie Horse]

You know what? I really like that setup. I think I'm going to get some of that fencing. I already have a solar charger. It seems so much nicer than tieing them up so much.

[nebs]

Very nice set up. I love how it is ofrid. I have never seen such large obies. They are good looking.

[Dave-Trinity-Farms]

Are those coats reversible? I am loving that idea if so!

[Sanhestar]

just one caveat. Please, please make sure that your fence is really tight. In your pictures the elements are slack and that can be a death trap for goats. You can use thin rope and a ground anchor in the corners - just like to tighten up a tent. Or you use one of the larger poles you put in the middle of the elements as additional corner post, just slide the top from outside to inside under the top wire after you put up the corner (and the whole fence), straighten the larger pole, give some tension on the fence and stick it in the ground. I also put the corner poles (and additional corner poles) in the ground pointing slightly outward. The pull of the fence will straighten them but this gives additional tension.

[Charlie Horse]

I rode my horse past a military base that had 150 goats grazing a fire break along a road.

Those goats had a slightly different kind of temp fence. It was more of a sheet of plastic with squares cut out of it in a grid. It also was a hot fence. I think it was bright orange. They respected it and I doubt they were getting tangled in it so I bet it is the perfect thing. I should look around and see if I can find it.

[Nanno]

I've seen that kind of orange fence you're talking about, Charlie Horse. Around here we call it snow fence. It's really cheap, but I've never seen it electrified before. I wonder how they do that? Did they put up the snow fence and then run hot wire around the inside of it?

[Huckleberry]

My boys seem to know when the solar fence is hot and don't do near it. I love both set ups you have. Do they ever mess with the side of the EZ-up or try to jump up to investigate what's on top? I would love to use this, but am afraid they would trash it trying to "figure" it out.

[deschutes dawn]

Nice setup. I've seen similar at endurance rides with horses doing hot laps around the inside! I've had horses test hot wire with their whiskers to see if it was on or not. As of this time I haven't used any electrified fence of any type with the goats but that will have to change by the time the trails open this year.

[Sanhestar]

the danger with this type of fence is not the electricity. It's the net structure and especially if you have horned goats. When the net isn't tight it's much easier for a goat that wants to explore what's on the other side of the fence to get caught in the net holes and tangled up. They will then wrap the fence either around head, throat and body or around the horns. Continued electro shocks from the charger will then cause shock/heart problems.