I am fed up with feeding. Lol. Okay, I am wondering how everyone feeds their animals.
It is so frustrating right now for me!! :GAAH: I read how some of you tether each goat to eat, but what if it's raining? My barn isn't big enough to tether every goat (nine does and doelings in the same pen right now), and when it's raining like today, everything is worse.
It's muddy, mucky and gross. I also do not have collars for all of them.
I had to catch every one of the doelings this morning and stuff them into another shed that they are using at moment, so they could eat away from the other does. They fought the whole way because they didn't want to get wet going between the barns. :hair:
But we are about to close that one off and use it for breeding, so it's not going to be available long term. :/
And to top it off, one of the does that we milk every day decided she didn't need to be milked today, so I had to chase her around the whole yard a few times to catch her and get her on the stand.
Our barn is 16'x16', with one stall that is 8'x8' that we use for milking in. In the past it has also doubled as a kidding stall, lol. But next year we'll have a lot more does kidding hopefully, so we are going to need a lot more space.
We are going to try building stalls out of pallets here pretty soon. I keep thinking that it might be easier to feed everyone if we had more stalls. Is that what y'all do? I just can't seem to figure out how to make this easier.
Sorry for the long post/rant. Any advice on feeding or barn layout would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
It is so frustrating right now for me!! :GAAH: I read how some of you tether each goat to eat, but what if it's raining? My barn isn't big enough to tether every goat (nine does and doelings in the same pen right now), and when it's raining like today, everything is worse.
I had to catch every one of the doelings this morning and stuff them into another shed that they are using at moment, so they could eat away from the other does. They fought the whole way because they didn't want to get wet going between the barns. :hair:
But we are about to close that one off and use it for breeding, so it's not going to be available long term. :/
And to top it off, one of the does that we milk every day decided she didn't need to be milked today, so I had to chase her around the whole yard a few times to catch her and get her on the stand.
Our barn is 16'x16', with one stall that is 8'x8' that we use for milking in. In the past it has also doubled as a kidding stall, lol. But next year we'll have a lot more does kidding hopefully, so we are going to need a lot more space.
We are going to try building stalls out of pallets here pretty soon. I keep thinking that it might be easier to feed everyone if we had more stalls. Is that what y'all do? I just can't seem to figure out how to make this easier.
Sorry for the long post/rant. Any advice on feeding or barn layout would be much appreciated.