Can I keep chickens and goats together?
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DeepDishChix
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- May 23, 2015
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Yeah you can. I saw them actually sitting and laying eggs in the goats hay at a goat farm once. We were there to get manure.
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I have some free range rooster that go in n out of my goats pen but they don't live together since goats can't eat chicken feed
My chicken coops are built into the back wall of my open goat barn. It works for me but in some ways it's been a real pain in the backside. If I had to do it all again I would have them separate. Coops have to be built extra strong to withstand goats who like to climb, jump, butt and try to get inside. And you have to build coops so that you and the chickens can get in and out but keep the goats out. Goats will go to great lengths to get at the chicken feed and if they do, they will gorge themselves and they will bloat. Been there, done that. And it's amazing how small an opening a goat can and will squeeze itself through! Goats will watch you every day, they will test your doors, gates and latches every single day to see if they can get in or out of where ever they should or should not be. Keeping them under the same roof can certainly be done, you just have to get a little inventive sometimes as well as being extra vigilante about keeping the goats out of the chicken feed.
fcovet
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That's very interesting cafarmgirl I recently just doubled my pig/chicken/duck pen and I have a ten by ten dog pen as a coop that is inline with the fence. Now we are fixing to add three dwarf Nigerian milk goats.
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