Goats and Chickens?

[Egg_Newton]

Hi Egg Newton. Would you mind sharing a picture of the special door you built to keep the goats out? I have 3 twelve week old ND wethers and can't keep them out!So frustrating!! They love chicken pellets. We tried building a box in the run door that we thought only the chickens could manuveur but the goats proved us wrong. So now we have cages around the hens' feeders with small portions cut out for the chickens to stick their heads thru but one of the boys figured out how to stick out his tongue and get a pellet at a time. Plus, the boys seem to love to go visit the girls so now I just take the chicken feed away during the hours they are together to ensure the boys are not getting feed. The girls are not a big fan of this solution.

If anyone else has ideas, I'm all ears!!

This isn't mine but I used the same design. Works great! Even keeps the ND kids out and easy to make.
http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/69640/keeping-chickens-goats-together/10
I had to show the chickens how to use it. I have a hen with a gimpy leg that it took her about a week to finally figure it out but everyone else got it quickly. We tried everything before I convinced my DH to build this. I had built one for my old coop but he thought he could come up with something better. Our door to the chicken coop is a slider window (we already had it on hand. Looks really funny having a window 6 inches off the ground lol) Even with it closed enough to barely let a chicken thru those sneaky goats would wriggle thru.

 

[Womwotai]

That is ingenious. Simple, yet effective. I love it!

 

[themorethemerrier]

We must have built ours wrong because my little boys can get thru it! Guessing we made it too big.

 

[Egg_Newton]

It took a few adjusments after we first built it to keep everybody out.

 

[GentlemanFarmer]

My first goats will be arriving in two weeks but, I do have horses and chickens. The chickens are aloud to free range. They spend a few hours of their day in with the horses scratching around. Great fly control--no issues here. One of the horses will occasionally chase and try to stomp a chicken but the chickens seem to manage and they choose to go in there. Chicken feed is left in the coop so they can come and go. Great Pyrenees keeps coyotes and other problems away.

I plan to try the same with the goats, just let the chickens decide when to spend time in there.