building a fence, question on a tricky corner...

[BukitCase]

From my experience - without the lower hot wires, your fence will look like you were drunk when you built it within a couple of weeks, goats seem to LOVE using wire fence for a "side" scratcher - they lean on the wire and walk along the fence. This soon stretches the fence, and before too long some of the cross-wires (stays) give up.

Most children (mine, anyway) only take ONCE to figure out it's not fun to forget about the fence. Goats, horses, cows (if you catch them young enough) seem to need reminders every so often

Goat milk and cheese, just like cows, have an entirely different flavor depending on what the animal eats - Because of this, we only fed high grade alfalfa hay and dairy grain (the grain while milking) - If they get into weeds, best call them "brush goats" and forget the milk

BTW, without a raised milking stanchion with a head lock and a tray for the grain, good luck milking them. Some are worse than others about this. Had a couple of Nubians that also required rawhide leg ties if you didn't want to filter out "toe jam" from the milk :licking:

Angus - These beasts seem to be much better EATING than they are companions - we raised one for meat, had to be the least friendly cow I ever had the displeasure to meet. You could feed her alfalfa and grain, but don't try to pet her if you value your body parts - from what others have told me, this wasn't a fluke. I've been around Jerseys, Guernseys, Holsteins, Herefords, maybe a few others, and they were ALL friendlier than any Angus I know of.

All the above is from my own personal experience starting when I was about 12 (57 years ago) - YMMV, I won't try to deprive you of having your own anecdotes to share... Steve

 

[dhagood]

a lot just depends on how tight one stretches that fence section, if you basically just hold it up most likely no need, but if your going to have a stringed instrument when done you will need corners,

this has been my experience as well. i put a vehicle gate into an existing fence; the gate was recessed 20' back from the original fence line. i did not brace the corner posts for both 20' sections and could not keep any tension on the wire despite using 6" diameter posts sunk 39" in the ground. i had to go back in and add the bracing.

if you're going to tension your wire at all, you might as well add the brace now. otherwise, you'll most likely be adding it in the future.

 

[MNBobcat]

The fence will be containing lamancha goats. Below is the actual pic/landscape with my drawn in "do I need this post".

Yes, anywhere where there is a change in direction you should brace it. You should have a brace from the red post going to the left post and then from the left post going to the next post to the left of it. So your 90 will have a brace left and right.

You actually need 3 horizontal braces at that corner. The braces allow you to tension the fence without the post leaning. Otherwise over time they will lean.