Successfully contained!

My pygmy goats Kodiak and Hannah have finally got a proper pen. The electric fence has held its own, delivered a few shocks, and successfully deterred even Kodiak with his huge horns from messing with it.

Here's the specs on my fence:

• 5 lines of 17-gauge aluminum wire
• On a 6", 12", 18", 24", and 36"
• Three fence posts, each with insulators, spaced about 15' apart
• One copper grounding rod about 4' in the ground, connected to ground with a copper grounding clamp.
• My fence controller is the cheap model at Tractor Supply with a 2-mile range, the Zareba ACC2.
• Each line has a line tightener on that is tightened as tight as possible without stretching the wire too much so that it breaks.

Very excited this works for the goats. My poor goats have been cooped up in a barn for nearly two weeks because their skittish nature makes them very difficult to get back in there. I still won't let Mack, the other pygmy buck, near the electric fence because I don't know that it would hold the goats back from getting to each other.

Speaking of Mack, I contained him in his pen successfully this weekend too. I found out he managed to squeeze between some posts to get out. Patched them, fixed the problem, and Mack is contained in an overgrown pen to clear it out for me.

When some more fencing is up in the pasture, he'll be set free to roam with the others! My first taste of success in this little farm adventure me and the family are involved in!