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Nobody wanted to play on the playground today. You can see it in the background.

Looking good!

Silvy being milked today.

@luvmypets congratulations!

I wanted to add this yesterday as an option. We do the hanging feeder thing in small and single pens, but for groups we found bigger feeders work better. The one in the thumbnails is built out of 1" x whatever wood, and is tied to the fence so we can just drop the feed in from outside. The...

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In the goatastoga last week.

Whole herd last fall.

I did make an "EggMobile" on a 4'x8' farm wagon from Northern Tool (3 pictures in thumbnails) but it's really only usable half the year. It has a plastic floor with 1/2" square holes. Too hard to keep warm in the winter. We keep our chickens year round in our ultra-lightweight chicken tractors.

They do nibble on things, but since they don't put aresnic in pressure treated lumber any more I'm not quite as worried. We also move this to new grazing (fenced) every 5-7 days. I put 2' tall cattle panel down each side, inside the goatastoga, and cattle panelled off the entire tongue end to...

The screens are fairly closely woven. Turns out they wear fast, and gravel pits will sell them for scrap pricing. They have sharp exposed edge wires. I covered those with pressure treated 2x4's. These boards are the ones going left to right in the picture below.

Not sure how much land, or how many goats you have. We did rotational grazing with electronet and about 15 - 20 goats for two years. It was a ton of work to move that fence every 3-5 days. We wound up putting high tensile interior sectioning fences in permanently.

Made this in early 2015. It's a farm wagon with a floor made out of gravel screens (for poo drop-thru), hoops from gray plastic conduit (for sun resistance) and a recycled billboard tarp. We do rotational grazing, and didn't want permanent dead spots in each field.

I'm back.

Those can be dangerous when the hay above collapses. Just letting you know.

How Dare you!

We were doing a cheddar. Not a complex cheese, but no matter how good the milk tasted, no matter how well we controlled things - well, accidents happen. Wonderfully flavored sharp cheddar with great overtones of goat pee, especially when warmed. Ick.

Hanging with his girls.

Coccidia maybe? done a fecal yet?