Please Post Pics of Your Goat Enclosures!

[LauraJean]

Hi everyone, I posted earlier about getting goats, and now I'm really curious about fencing and housing. If you could post pics of your goats' domains, it would really help me get an idea of what folks have for set ups. Fencing types, housing, etc. Any pics you'd like to post would be great! Thanks!

 

[dianneS]

I don't really have a good picture of my goat barn, but I have an antique bank barn, my horse stalls are in the lower portion, I have a hay loft and tractor/equipment storage in the middle and the back half is the goat pen. Its pretty big and only has a tube gate across it right now. I've never had the need to lock my goats in, but if I wanted to, I could just use a livestock panel or attach some no climb fencing to my tube gate.

This is the best shot I could find of the back portion of the barn.

I have all 4 rail, split rail fencing on my property and most of it is backed with woven wire field fence. It works really well and the wire is barely noticeable and doesn't sag much at all.

I have about 2 acres fenced for the goats and I want to goat proof the horse pasture soon so that I can rotate.

This is the opposite back view of the barn.

This is part of the horse side of the pasture that I hope to goat proof in the very near future. Its about 5-6 acres.

 

[LauraJean]

I don't really have a good picture of my goat barn, but I have an antique bank barn, my horse stalls are in the lower portion, I have a hay loft and tractor/equipment storage in the middle and the back half is the goat pen. Its pretty big and only has a tube gate across it right now. I've never had the need to lock my goats in, but if I wanted to, I could just use a livestock panel or attach some no climb fencing to my tube gate.

This is the best shot I could find of the back portion of the barn.
http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/uploads/888_goats_201.jpg

I have all 4 rail, split rail fencing on my property and most of it is backed with woven wire field fence. It works really well and the wire is barely noticeable and doesn't sag much at all.

http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/uploads/888_goats_017.jpg

I have about 2 acres fenced for the goats and I want to goat proof the horse pasture soon so that I can rotate.
http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/uploads/888_goats_099.jpg
This is the opposite back view of the barn.
http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/uploads/888_goats_115.jpg
This is part of the horse side of the pasture that I hope to goat proof in the very near future. Its about 5-6 acres.
http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/uploads/888_baby_chicks_027.jpg

Beautiful!! In the 2nd pic, is that actually a goat the size of a chicken???? SO CUTE.

 

[chandasue]

I don't really have a good picture of my goat barn, but I have an antique bank barn, my horse stalls are in the lower portion, I have a hay loft and tractor/equipment storage in the middle and the back half is the goat pen.

Oh great... stoking my barn envy problem again... I don't have a good pic of mine. I have a 10x20 shed that works pretty well. But I SO want a big ol' red barn with nice pasture like that! Seriously. Whenever we drive anywhere I'm scoping out farms with nice barns. It's becoming a real problem!

 

[Slightly Cracked]

We used the wire 16' cattle panels and a BIG dog house to start. The dog house is big enough for a boer doe, a nubian doe and a boer wether! We did a pen 32'x32' = 8 panels. They eat the grass out of it real fast but they get lots of browse when they are taken on goat walks.

 

[savingdogs]

I don't have pictures but we re-purposed a dog run and dog enclosure for mini-nubians. It is just four foot chain link and a lean-to built into the side of a shed. It has a nice roof and a dirt floor, and a door we can slide shut just in the worst weather, the rest of the time they go in and out at will. We have a hay rack outside for nice weather and another inside the lean-to for the rest of the time. They drop so much hay, we don't need bedding. We did get a kick-proof water bucket and a place to put out minerals and such and we were all set. We just had to choose small goats because the existing fence was only four feet high.

 

[Roll farms]

This is what we call the 'old barn'....I don't have any interior pic (always so dark they don't come out well) but it is our hay storage barn, along w/ 2 kidding stalls, the milking area, and a big general population stall / feeders, about 18' long x 8' wide where most of the does come and go as they please.

This is the top part of the pasture attatched to that barn, you can see the barn way off in the distance behind the goats, to give you a general idea...it's probably roughly one acre.

It's surrounded by 5' chain link, with rr ties attatched in low places at the bottom, and a hot wire running around 3 sides. We built the pasture for llamas originally, once the goats moved in we had to reinforce any area the goats could go under.

This shows the big pasture, the buck pen is right beside it...it's just a long lane reinforced w/ cattle panel, rr ties, and landscape timbers to keep the boys in.

This is the 'new' barn we added in '08, it's set up into 3 smaller pens so we can seperate breeding groups a/o kids.

Interior of one of the stalls in that barn, shows the feeder and gate system....we can swing open the gates and use the bobcat to clean out the stalls.

Another shot of those pens, you can see the fencing better w/ snow on it. We used 16' cattle panels, braced every 4' to keep them from sagging....with boys in them during the breeding season they have to be strong.

 

[dianneS]

I don't really have a good picture of my goat barn, but I have an antique bank barn, my horse stalls are in the lower portion, I have a hay loft and tractor/equipment storage in the middle and the back half is the goat pen. Its pretty big and only has a tube gate across it right now. I've never had the need to lock my goats in, but if I wanted to, I could just use a livestock panel or attach some no climb fencing to my tube gate.

This is the best shot I could find of the back portion of the barn.
http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/uploads/888_goats_201.jpg

I have all 4 rail, split rail fencing on my property and most of it is backed with woven wire field fence. It works really well and the wire is barely noticeable and doesn't sag much at all.

http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/uploads/888_goats_017.jpg

I have about 2 acres fenced for the goats and I want to goat proof the horse pasture soon so that I can rotate.
http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/uploads/888_goats_099.jpg
This is the opposite back view of the barn.
http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/uploads/888_goats_115.jpg
This is part of the horse side of the pasture that I hope to goat proof in the very near future. Its about 5-6 acres.
http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/uploads/888_baby_chicks_027.jpg

Beautiful!! In the 2nd pic, is that actually a goat the size of a chicken???? SO CUTE.

Yes, that goat actually was the size of a chicken. She was 8-9 weeks old at the time too. It was a sad story. I got her from a woman who was clueless about goats. She had these twins who were loaded with worms and coccidia and I think even possible listeriosis. The little boy died, and I brought the little girl home to try and save her. One trip to the vet, and they loaded her down with wormers and antibiotics. She was dead the next day. I kick myself for allowing the vet to overload her little system with so much medicine, it went against my instincts, but I allowed it anyway. I think she could have had a chance if we would have taken things more slowly. But at least she got to spend the last week of her life in a nice big sunny pasture and a warm barn at night, instead of in a damp, muddy pen in the woods where she got tossed around by the big goats all the time.

 

[Javamama]

This is our little goat barn. It's 6x12 for 2 or 3 mini manchas. We have then inside our privacy fenced backyard and then fenced with woven wire goat fence to keep them outta my stuff - their main area is probably 20x60. We have a small pasture out back and we walk them out there to browse and exercise, but with both goats being pregnant they are mostly interested in the food portion of that time
I can add a few more pics later. I have to take my kid to school now.

 

[savingdogs]

Java, my goat barn is a twin of yours except one wall is butted up against a bigger shed.

RollFarms, your set up is wonderful! I wish I had even one barn like that.