Thursday, June 15, 2006

Chevon Castle

Chevon Castle

Is this not the best goat digs ever??? B did a marvelous job giving all the kids their own space, and extra space to boot.

Notice that great construction-- nothing is going ANYWHERE. See the feeders and water buckets? We designed the stalls so everyone could have their water and food refilled from the outside. We can't do that with hay, unfortunately, since putting the hay too close to the buckets means dirty water buckets too frequently. But the rest is down to a science. The opening allows them enough room to put their head outside the stalls, but not the rest of their body (keeps the poo out of the feeder, too, which cuts down on worm infestations).

The white PVC pipe outside of each stall holds minerals. There is a little part that sticks into the stall so the goat can eat it whenever it wants. One is mineral, and the other is baking soda. Baking soda is like "goat tums" and helps prevent bloat or other tummy troubles.

Notice the black kitty by the far pen (Wolfgang's pen). Our goats have their own kittens.

Big pat on the back to B. He's the man. ; )

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Very nice, do you actually allow the goats to stay in those fancy digs? You could rent them to toursts!

Anonymous said...

B. did an awesome job, very nice! Did he use the tool of choice, the sawzall?

- MK