I have a DUMB problem...and need advice

[Hobbley_Farm]

Man I can't wait till their big enough to be set out! That will solve our problem....Till one gets preggors. Although NOW I think I might see if we can have a different area for our goat nursery.

To Much Drama! Goats eating chicken food....chickens eating goat food...Goats trying to sleep in chicken shack...chicks getting crushed out of their shells. I don't like drama. Not one of those women who lives for it. Just gives me a headache! I like drama free as possible. I think a separate area (away from chicken shack and chicken feed) is the best way to go as soon as we can manage. But I don't want to totally keep the chickens away from the goats. They all like one another. Sometimes our meaties roost ontop of our goats. That's pretty adorable!

 

[MissPrissy]

I find it very amusing your goats are going to roost with your chickens.

 

[cajunlizz]

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ONLY THING I WILL SAY , chicken coop should NOT have goats mixed with the chickens ..... LOL

 

[helmstead]

It wasn't a personal attack or anything, please know...just a public service announcement LOL. We all have to avoid learning the hard way, because with goats it seems the hard way = a goat dying before you know what happened.

I have told people who have issues keeping their goats where they're supposed to be to just get used to it. Just when you think you have it set up so that they'll stay put, you go out one morning to find them all in the wrong places. Heck - just this week I had a "forceable fence failure" and had a buck in the nursery pen, preggers does getting chased around by him, and was mending fence AGAIN.

I do admit that once we move and can build to suit instead of build as we grow that our chickens will have thier own coop. Just easier. I think they'll be in the horse barn instead of the goat barn - I don't forsee the equines climbing chicken ladders or squeezing through holes less than a foot square to get to nesting boxes and chicken feed

 

[Hobbley_Farm]

Oh...I didn't take it as an attack. No worries

 

[kinnip]

Best of luck to you. We ended up putting our chicken run on the opposite side of the house from the goat pen. I thought it was an inconvenience at first, but boy am I glad of it now.

 

[TMNTCkins]

We recently had the same proublem with a new Nig. baby we ended having to put the door up high and a small ladder so the goat could not climb and it has worked, he can't get in now. He would go and get in the nest boxes also it was funny at first but then became a big pain.

 

[BeardedChick]

I wonder if you could just cover your chicken door with something very sturdy like field wire or horse mesh and just cut a few wires out of the way so the chickens can just fit through. I know my hens can almost fit through the lower mesh on field wire, and if it's bent they can actually squeeze through.

Why do I keep reading these posts?????? I want a goat, darn it!!!!

 

[PotterWatch]

I have the same problem with my goats. We don't have chicken doors on our coops, so when the chickens are out, I either take out the feeders so the goats have nothing to eat, or I keep the coops closed. The most fun part is trying to get my fairly pg doe out of the raised coop (about 3.5 feet off the ground). When she's up there, she can look me dead in the eye, plant her feet, and shake her head at me, lol. Someday we will have a proper coop with a chicken door... I hope.

 

[pixiechick]

Yeah, could you raise your chicken door high enough that feathers and wings would be necessary to get in ?