Now that I have your attention, this is what I want to avoid.
We just brought home a Anatolian Shephard and I need to figure out how to feed it in the same pasture that she is kept in. Of course the pasture is full of goats. I don't know if the goats will eat the dog food or how they will be...
I want to pasture raise chickens on our 5 acres in the goat pasture. I can picture it now, the goats think I have a provided a toy for them and 6 months later my coop is trashed.
I was thinking of making a coop that was A-Frame style with steep sides and no flat roof so the goats couldn't play...
I would like to have Nubian Goats or Highland Cattle. I live in Southeastern Idaho, potato country. We have cold winters. The soil is a heavy soil but it grows Alfafla well. Pasture seems to do well also.
We will buy hay to get us through the winter.
What other info did I miss?
We have 9 acres that is totally flat irrigated pasture. We are totally new at this and will be using a rotational grazing system. It looks like we need to be able to go 30 days between grazing periods. So what kind of a stocking rate should we expect to have on this property? In other words...
I have a completly rectangular piece of land that is totally flat with no trees etc. Think Idaho potato ground. This makes it 1.2 acres which is perfect for 4 goats. I thought I would fence the exterior perimeter and then divide the interior into 4 seperate paddocks to rotate the animals...