Housing Geese in Barn?

[The Dim Side]

Since my geese are more like pets to me, I've been really paranoid about keeping them in the barn (they just live in the mudroom attached to the house, lol) for fear of security. But as we get more geese/ducks, we'll need to move them soon. Does anyone house their geese in barns (it was used as a horse barn up front and chicken barn in back)? And if so, how do you enclose them? We have a fox around (and her babies have grown and are probably out hunting now, too), plus a plethora of other predators.

Our chickens are in one part of the barn and have a mobile coop that's just inside right now (in the horse part in the front). So they get locked up in the coop in a relatively enclosed space in the barn. (Something can squeeze through the sliding doors and spaces between the walls if it really wanted. The rabbits do all the time.) Should we build a sleeping area for them that's locked up like the chicken coop is?

Or would it be better to just get a separate shed? I'd like to use the building space we already have, but all the sliding doors for the horses previously just makes me worried something could still get in (we block off the sliding door on the chicken side with a wooden board. My boyfriend also has a partially built triangular coop that was initially going to be a mobile coop for the geese. But they just free range and get ushered to bed at night, so we realized we didn't need a mobile one. So we could potentially put it inside the barn for them to sleep, but it just might be too big. I also don't know if it's excessive, lol. But I'd be heartbroken if anything happened to them, so I'd rather it play it safe anyway!

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

Since my geese are more like pets to me, I've been really paranoid about keeping them in the barn (they just live in the mudroom attached to the house, lol) for fear of security. But as we get more geese/ducks, we'll need to move them soon. Does anyone house their geese in barns (it was used as a horse barn up front and chicken barn in back)? And if so, how do you enclose them? We have a fox around (and her babies have grown and are probably out hunting now, too), plus a plethora of other predators.

Our chickens are in one part of the barn and have a mobile coop that's just inside right now (in the horse part in the front). So they get locked up in the coop in a relatively enclosed space in the barn. (Something can squeeze through the sliding doors and spaces between the walls if it really wanted. The rabbits do all the time.) Should we build a sleeping area for them that's locked up like the chicken coop is?

Or would it be better to just get a separate shed? I'd like to use the building space we already have, but all the sliding doors for the horses previously just makes me worried something could still get in (we block off the sliding door on the chicken side with a wooden board. My boyfriend also has a partially built triangular coop that was initially going to be a mobile coop for the geese. But they just free range and get ushered to bed at night, so we realized we didn't need a mobile one. So we could potentially put it inside the barn for them to sleep, but it just might be too big. I also don't know if it's excessive, lol. But I'd be heartbroken if anything happened to them, so I'd rather it play it safe anyway!

If you like the space you already have you could make a secure area for them inside the barn.

 

[AGeese]

I have mine in a pen in my garage. They'll be moved to an old stick built garage that's just a pretty solid old out building. I'm not so much worried about Mink, or snakes with them, but the coyotes, and racoons.

Below is what I'm adding wheels to so I can move it over to the old garage.