Goat eating dog food

[FarmerChick]

good lesson to learn there.
if you are doing a guard dog in pasture, as a pup find that good feed and shelter spot--only for it.

 

[freemotion]

It should be pretty easy to teach the dog a new routine, especially where food is involved. My dogs take turns eating in a crate (not LGD's, but dogs, nevertheless!) and they eat in less than five minutes. You should be able to improvise a small enclosure that you let the dog into and out of once or twice a day, however many times you feed him normally. He will learn it rather quickly. Like ksalvagno said.

As you know, goats can fit their boneless little bodies through the tiniest openings if there is food on the other side!

 

[cmjust0]

So it is a creep feeder situation with a door. See I modified the entrance with a door to keep those little mini critters out.

A creep feeder with a door that requires opening and closing isn't a creep feeder....that's called a pen.

 

[FarmerChick]

after it is modified you can call it whatever you like

original poster never mentioned mini livestock either.


be imaginative....never hurt anyone ya know!

 

[cmjust0]

I guess you could call it a creep feeder with a door.

I just wouldn't do out loud, and especially not it in the company of other farmers.

 

[miss_thenorth]

I guess you could call it a creep feeder with a door.

I just wouldn't do out loud, and especially not it in the company of other farmers.

Starting again? :/

 

[FarmerChick]

gee, I am sure I would never get to bored of the cracks. :bun

the smileys just keep on coming.....

I know most farmers time is too valuable to bother cracking jokes on a very old thread

 

[nightshade]

my goat Skeeter loves dog food, because he was raised in the house and lived in there for nearly a year. Where the dogs would steal his food cause it smelled different then theirs so he in turn would simply eat their food a feed time instead lol.

Needless to say we took care of it by feeding him where they could not take his food.

Now he lives outside with the other goat but still acts much like a dog. Going to the car when ever he is around and you are going to leave to beg for a ride. Crawling up on your lap to cuddle when you sit in a chair and he is loos outside and sneaking into the house when someone forgets to close the door. Where he jumps up on the bed or couch to take a nap.

 

[FarmerChick]

oh nightshade--you did not, you did not have a goat in the house for a year...LOL---wow---

you must have the patience of a saint!!!

 

[Sweet Cheeks]

I feed my 3 dogs in the garage twice a day before I feed the goats. I had to buy these bowls with the three plastic pegs to stop them from wolfing their food down too fast.

They still wolf it down by moving around the bowls in circles to get to the food. Done in less than a minute and running from bowl to bowl licking out anything missed.

My problem is the dogs going out and eating the goats food.

Good luck OP solving your problem.