Coops, Chickens & Goats

[DobieClose]

Also replace the solid doors with ventilation. With goats I would make a door out of 2 pallets... so a door with strong wooden horizontal slats, with maybe 2 inch gaps between the slats up until about 4 feet up, then framed open. Entire thing covered in strong hardware cloth.

Thanks.
the door to each half were going to be installed on the ends. I need to check what door is best for goats and what door for chickens.

 

[DobieClose]

Had to stop where I was on that last post and chase the dog out of a cornfield. We don’t have a fence yet!
Anyhow, I was thinking dutch doors on the front with a hardware cloth screen so I could open as I wished to vent one side or the other.

 

[Alaskan]

What kind of doors you need depends on if the doors are opening to a service corridor, or if the chickens and/or goats will be touching the doors.

 

[DobieClose]

A service corridor?
They'll be exterior doors.

 

[Alaskan]

A service corridor?
They'll be exterior doors.

I wasn't sure if the exterior doors would be opening directly into a goat pen, or a chicken pen, or a combo goat/chicken pen.... or a feed room/service corridor.

Depending in what kind of animals might be rubbing or bumping that door, changes how it should be made.

 

[DobieClose]

I wasn't sure if the exterior doors would be opening directly into a goat pen, or a chicken pen, or a combo goat/chicken pen.... or a feed room/service corridor.

Depending in what kind of animals might be rubbing or bumping that door, changes how it should be made.

One end will have chickens exiting to a run.
The other end will be goats exiting to a goat area.

Where do I find the differences?
Have you seen a thread here?

 

[Alaskan]

One end will have chickens exiting to a run.
The other end will be goats exiting to a goat area.

Where do I find the differences?
Have you seen a thread here?

No thread that I can think of...

A door that goes from a predator proof run into a chicken coop I would frame like a standard screen door and screen with chicken wire.

If the run is NOT predator proof then screen with hardware cloth AND make it strong enough to keep out a crazed dog, which means you need to add horizontal wood bars and cross bracing.

For a door going from a goat shed to a goat pen.... if the pen is predator proof I wouldn't bother with any door at all. If the pen is not predator proof I would make it like a Dutch door. The bottom and top with slats as in a pallet type of thing. Think super strong, with some venting between slats. No wire would be needed, but it would have to be strong to stand up to goats and to keep out dogs.

 

[DobieClose]

No thread that I can think of...

A door that goes from a predator proof run into a chicken coop I would frame like a standard screen door and screen with chicken wire.

If the run is NOT predator proof then screen with hardware cloth AND make it strong enough to keep out a crazed dog, which means you need to add horizontal wood bars and cross bracing.

For a door going from a goat shed to a goat pen.... if the pen is predator proof I wouldn't bother with any door at all. If the pen is not predator proof I would make it like a Dutch door. The bottom and top with slats as in a pallet type of thing. Think super strong, with some venting between slats. No wire would be needed, but it would have to be strong to stand up to goats and to keep out dogs.

I'm reading up on the predator proofing.
That's one of the big reasons I'm waiting till spring. I'll post pictures of the inside as soon as I can for more ideas.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Goats are "hard" on things. They do learn pretty quickly that they can't open a door, and stop trying. That's the good news. The bad news is that, having decided its a permanent thing, they think absolutely nothing of using it to scratch their sides... My goats have done more damage addressing an itch than trying to escape!

 

[Outta Here]

I have a pretty shed at my new home that I had planned on converting into a chicken coop. It’s 16’3” X 10’3” so it’s way big enough.
I want a couple of pygmy goats too.
My question is, can you wall the inside into 2 halves and have goats on one side and chickens on the other? Separate doors and runs of course.
Is this a thing?

Sure you can! Very nice barn, by the way! I had a 12x48 section of our barn for goats and chickens together. The goats most of the space, and the chickens got the last part which was chicken-wired off with a door for me. I didn't like running them together simply because the chickens pooped in the goat manger.
This is a very poor resolution picture, but it shows the goats and then the chicken roost and clear plastic wall for the chicken part. This was before I built a partition.

Here is a picture of the chicken side. I would allow a goat on the chicken side on occasion, but not the chickens on the goat side!