Goats for a weekend - browse back bush FOUND
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Goats for a weekend - browse back bush
It looks like I have found two wethers. What do goats need two small breed goats need for housing? Would a 8x4x4' shelter work (L*6*H)?
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Jaye
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Goats for a weekend - browse back bush
I don't have any goats, or any experience with them, but did a quick Goiogle search and found this pygmy goat website:
http://www.npga-pygmy.com/resources/hus ... ousing.asp
Based on their suggested 15-20 square ft space per animal, an 8 x 4 shed would give each goat 16 square ft, if I''ve calculated correctly.
There are several goat keepers / experts on this forum who I'm sure can provide additional info, so hopefully they will check in soon.
http://www.npga-pygmy.com/resources/hus ... ousing.asp
Based on their suggested 15-20 square ft space per animal, an 8 x 4 shed would give each goat 16 square ft, if I''ve calculated correctly.
There are several goat keepers / experts on this forum who I'm sure can provide additional info, so hopefully they will check in soon.
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goatgal35
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If they are out and about all day and the shelter is just for them to come and go as they please it should work. Just watch and be sure that one isn't a bully and they both go in.
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Goats for a weekend - browse back bush
OK, thanks for the tip. I could make the shelter bigger. The shelter will be inside a larger fenced area.
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If the two goats get along with each other, the space is enough, but I'd make it bigger so you can put food in there in inclement weather--goats don't like wet weather, or at least mine don't...they bleat most piteously if so much as a single raindrop or snowflake touches them...and they won't eat anything that's damp. Not. a. thing.
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Goats for a weekend - browse back bush
Picked up some bucklings on their way to becoming wethers Tuesday. Nigerian Dwarf Goats.
Their permanent home still needs to be finished. Finish the fence gate and re-enforce the T-Posts. In my wisdom I put their pen in the brush and brambles. Unfortunately bedrock is 4 inches below the surface. That could explain some of the tree die offs we have had.
Their permanent home still needs to be finished. Finish the fence gate and re-enforce the T-Posts. In my wisdom I put their pen in the brush and brambles. Unfortunately bedrock is 4 inches below the surface. That could explain some of the tree die offs we have had.
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