Goats and Chickens

[Lovem all]

If anyone wants tips on having your flock and goats together I can help.

 

[humblehillsfarm]

If anyone wants tips on having your flock and goats together I can help.

I'm curious to learn! I want goats ASAP but I am no where near close to ready for them unfortunately. I was indeed wondering about integration, but in my mind they will likely be separate. You never know though until you get them I suppose. I want Nigerian dwarfs goats for their high fat milk, but the goats themselves should sell well around here.

 

[Lovem all]

That's great and if you want a dairy goat nigerian dwarfs are a great way to go. So are you also going to breed if so I can give some advice there. We have 2 neubian weathers, a neubian mixed nigergian girl, a nigerian mom with twin babies, and two nigerian bucks. We keep our bucks seperate and will be seperating out out neubian boys. Our Chickens get along really well with the goats and they (especially the younger ones) really do prefer the dwarfs. We have the goat house and the chicken coop. The chickens are allowed in the goat house but for saftey reason the goats can't go in the coop. We feed them at the same time as the chickens. The boys on leashes and the chickens in the yard. We feed our girls while they get milked. I've never seen any hostility between them though our newer chickens are always like what the heck is that when they first meet goats lol. I was worried about them being stepped on but my chickens have learned to move out of the way. Do you have any specific questions I can help address?

 

[humblehillsfarm]

That's great and if you want a dairy goat nigerian dwarfs are a great way to go. So are you also going to breed if so I can give some advice there. We have 2 neubian weathers, a neubian mixed nigergian girl, a nigerian mom with twin babies, and two nigerian bucks. We keep our bucks seperate and will be seperating out out neubian boys. Our Chickens get along really well with the goats and they (especially the younger ones) really do prefer the dwarfs. We have the goat house and the chicken coop. The chickens are allowed in the goat house but for saftey reason the goats can't go in the coop. We feed them at the same time as the chickens. The boys on leashes and the chickens in the yard. We feed our girls while they get milked. I've never seen any hostility between them though our newer chickens are always like what the heck is that when they first meet goats lol. I was worried about them being stepped on but my chickens have learned to move out of the way. Do you have any specific questions I can help address?

We have bears and other large predators. Do I need a building to enclose them in at night? Or just shelter?

 

[JadeFarms]

I put my goats and chickens together sometimes!

 

[Lovem all]

At first we just kept them in almost what someone would call a covered chicken run so they could go there in the rain and we'd lock them in at night but then we moved an entire set up into the barn (it's not the best barn for animals because it wasn't made for them) in the winter time because it was could and they would have gotten snowed on so I would get them a safe place to go. How many do you plan on getting?

 

[Lovem all]

That is such a great picture. Very handsome goat. We don't let ours get horns though cause of our little kids.

 

[humblehillsfarm]

That is such a great picture. Very handsome goat. We don't let ours get horns though cause of our little kids.

I wanted to start with a male and a hopefully pregnant female by an different buck. I'd probably aim to get them from different breeders ideally. I'd keep the female baby for future breeding and make a male a whether to keep the main man company. After that I'd work primarily on selling any babies or keeping the next female if I didn't get one.

 

[JadeFarms]

That is such a great picture. Very handsome goat. We don't let ours get horns though cause of our little kids.

Yea, the horns are sometimes hard to deal with. I like them to have them though because it’s easy for us to hold them so we can put their halters on because they are not super tame.

 

[humblehillsfarm]

Weather is an issue here. Close to 100 in the summer and cold spells as low as 0 for four to five days in a row in the winter. Could have a bunch of snow or maybe none at all.