?s about building the goat's house

[Nick]

Thank you!
Just trying to give gritsar and hubby some ideas

 

[chickenandgoatlady]

can i feed the chickens and the goat the same feed if so what is good?

 

[MissPrissy]

They have very different requirements. Chicken feed cost more than goat feed. if you want eggs feed your chickens the proper chick and layer feeds. If you milking your goats you'll want good feed for them to. whatever you put into your animals, especially livestock, is exactly what you get back from them. Poor quality in means poor quality out.

 

[sweetshoplady]

Nick, I love your goat house! Your goat is so cute! I love his coloring - he looks like he's a chocolate goat!

 

[Coco]

If you dont want to actually build something, a plastic dog igloo will do the trick for a little safe and dry place for your goat to get into. I assume the breed of goat you are getting would be able to fit into it since my dog who is 90 lbs and HUGE used our's until the goats came into the picture. Our 2 Pygmys LOVE their igloo, they especially love to stand on top of it and look out over the pasture since we sit up on a very high hill to begin with.

 

[FarmerMack]

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Excellent photos Nick. I had been cruising the net, ending up no where LOL when i saw a link back to BYC

I like the house design simple.


Farmer MacK

 

[WhetzelMomma]

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NO.
Well, it depends on the DIRECTION you take. Goats should not eat chicken pellets. (with POSSIBLY the exception of vegetarian chicken feed)
However, CHICKENS can eat goat feed.
Chickens are omnivores, and goats are not.

I choose not to purchase "scratch" for my chickens, and instead use a small scoop of goat chow with their layer crumbles. The goat chow that I have has all the "goodies" that I was giving my chickens BEFORE I got goats, so it's more efficient for me to throw that out for their scratch. But I don't use goat chow as the chicken's sole source of nutrition. I would hesitate to feed any omnivore feed to goats because they are very much NOT omnivores.

 

[WhetzelMomma]

OH! And along the goat tractor idea...
I have used the cattle guard idea for a portable pen:

AND I used a previously used chicken tractor to make my shelter!! Took all the guts out, and use it in the goat area. I covered it in a tarp and the bottom has wire on it to make it safe to lock goats in at night. We have a pretty tepid climate here, so this is sufficient in winter with a good layer of hay inside.
Here is what it looked like before I covered it with a tarp for draft and rain protection.

Edited to change the first photo to show the new tarp "roof"

 

[chickenfaerie]

I know this is an old post, but it was very helpful everyone! I'm planning on getting Easter Egger chickens AND Pygmy goats in the spring and have done TONS of research to make sure I'm going to supply them with happy, healthy homes. I'm so glad to hear I can keep them TOGETHER as I want to keep the both out of the garden!