Advice needed re electronet fencing and companionship for the goat

I feel your pain with the electronet. I had such high hopes for it but I have one spastic goat (a Nigerian) that jumped over it and taught all the other ones how to get out of it, so that only lasted for a day or two. I use the electronet to keep wildlife critters out of the garden now and it works well for that, so it wasn't a complete loss.

As for the goats and rotating their eating area, my current solution is 4 cattle panels in a square with cheap carabiner clips holding it all together (2 or 3 clips at each corner). Be sure and use cattle panels and not the pig or goat/sheep panels because those are shorter and I'm sure they'd jump right over. The cattle panels are 50 inches tall. My escape artist tried to jump over these and couldn't make it out. They're 16 ft panels so I just put a 16 ft tarp over one side for shelter (it's connected to the panels with carabiner clips as well). The panels are lightweight enough that I can move it by myself and don't really take that much time to take apart and snap back together. A 16x16 area can only hold a small number of goats, but since you don't have many right now, it might work for you, especially since it's moved daily. I really like using this set-up because I don't need to worry about Tposts or anything like that - the panels and clips are enough to support each other.

We use electric fencing extensively and successfully with both sheep and goats, so I feel somewhat qualified to offer my observations.

Electric can be successful with both species, but for us the key seems to be consistency with the fence and also they need to have everything they need INSIDE the fence. I doubt you will ever fence either species in a dry lot with lightweight electric fencing. I doubt you will ever separate ewes / lambs, kids / does, bucks / does, or rams / ewes with lightweight electric fencing. We try hard to have adequate feed, water, and shade inside the electric fence, and seldom have issues. Actually, in spite of what most people say, our goats are far more afraid of our fence than our sheep are.

The fence has to be on. All the time. And it needs to be HOT. All the time. And this cannot be achieved with a cheap fence controller.

We have Nubians. Other breeds may respond differently.

Animals that won't respect the fence need to leave. Fast. I got rid of our bottle lamb two weeks ago because he constantly ran through fences to get to us.

If we ever get a goat that won't respect the fence, he / she will be gone too. Really fast.

Given that your goat has learned to jump fences, I am not hopeful that you will retrain her. I hope I am wrong. Hopefully someone else on here can offer you a solution you find workable.

I wish you all the best. Having worked with several species of livestock in my life, I can say that goats are by far the most challenging and complex.

Great advice by @creeksideflock. We also get rid of animals with bad behavior.

She's about 1.5 years old? Being alone in there is not going to help, and being bottle fed. She wants companionship. She will teach other goats you bring home. I wouldn't get a donkey but some type of companion animal, if not a goat, will help her. You could get a wether for short term and little investment.

We had a wether that jumped electric net and we put him in a large dog crate within the fence with everything he needed for a couple of days. We put him in there immediately after bringing him back in so he could (hopefully) equate the two actions. That made him stop and luckily the others didn't learn. I think we had to do it 2-3 times.

I'd also try a small, tall permanent fence and keep her pampered if you really don't want to get rid of her. If she settles with that, then introduce electric net in short bits.