Building the Goat House! UPDATE: Typar is up!

[lupinfarm]

The goat house has been typarred and taped. Actually, since this photo was taken I have put up 2 sheets of siding LOL so it's not really current but we will finish the siding today and I'll put up another photo with the siding up. The siding was $19 for a 4x8 sheet, its a composite fibreboard called "Barnside" and its done in a cedar plant pattern (we've put it horizontally, and its meant to go vertically but it kind of looks like a log cabin the way we've done it). It has to be painted, but I'm okay with that.

These darn goats are going to live in luxury... The house is actually going to be insulated with R22 ComfortBatt insulation (by Roxal) and I'lll be putting up vaporbarrier plus 1/4" plywooding the inside walls, and they'll have a vinyl floor.

 

[ksalvagno]

You are moving pretty quickly there. Nice looking goat house. Those goats better appreciate the work you did.

 

[backyardchickenfarmer]

any updates?

 

[cmjust0]

I'lll be putting up vaporbarrier...and they'll have a vinyl floor.

Goats + water + vinyl floor = Bambi, on the frozen pond?

I'm sure there will be bedding, and I'm sure it'll be perfectly fine...but here's a suggestion just in case it's not.

Take a cattle panel, cut it to fit the inside, and just lay it down on the floor. You don't have to tack it down or attach it in any way...just lay it down. That way, if a foot slips, it only gets to travel a few inches before hitting one of the stays/wires/rods of the panel.

My old cattle trailer has a 16' cattle panel tacked to the floor just for that purpose. Cattle + water/poo + slick boards + travel = broken legs. The cattle panel helps keep them from slipsliding around.

Just a thought.

 

[lupinfarm]

The goats were fine on the vinyl floor. It was a bit slippy for a couple days just with the bedding. I used pellets under shavings so any pee was soaked up by the pellets.. ie not slippery.

They now live in a building with a cement floor.

 

[cmjust0]

Ya know, something seemed odd about this thread!

I was like...but...didn't she just...?

Now I see the date.. DOH!

 

[lupinfarm]

hahaha..

yeah my chickens live in the little 6x6 shed. the flooring worked perfect over the winter though and the goats had built up about 1ft of hay on the floor LOL. ONE FOOT, between TWO goats. Geez.

 

[Dreaming Of Goats]

Any finished pictures?

 

[lupinfarm]

These are the finished pictures. I replaced the roof recently, and its no longer used as a little goatie shed.

 

[Dreaming Of Goats]

Why not?