That is about how I do mine, too! Sometimes it is a pain, but they all know to go to their "places"! I tie up 12 right now!When I chain mine up, they only have a very small spot. The chains are about 6-8 inches long, so they can't reach the neighbor's pans. So looking at your barn, I would place chains along the right wall, and across the front of those slats on the pen. Then, I have individual pans for each on that are over the fence pans from tractor supply. Each one gets his/ her own pan with individualized feed. The pans are hung over a 2x4 attached close to the wall so the lip of the pans stay tight and they *can't* knock the pans off. ( two of them bite their pan and lift it up to me, like , here, I want more, lol) I have 4 full size boer does on a 10 foot wall. Then, more on each adjacent wall. They can not lie down, or move much, so I stay right with them while chained up.
It sounds like you have it covered. I'm sure they love all the yummy snacks you bring in to them. We grow sunflowers because they are pretty...and the goats LOVE every part of them. Easy to grow, too. We also go down to the local produce market and get all the free pumpkins we want from them after Oct. They throw them into the field to get rid of them, and said we could help ourselves. The goats adored them, and the pumpkins seeded themselves in our garden, so now we have our own growing!Goatiegranny my idea right now is to do something like that; a few pens to make life easier, and whoever's left over so to speak can eat tethered.
Sadly we don't have pasture, but they have a good sized pen and all the hay they want, as well as alfalfa hay- and we bring them sweet potatoe vines and other things from the garden, so I think they're doing pretty well.
I'm sure we will still use the big hay feeder, just not in there, since it's really too big for our smallish barn.maybe I can get one of the guys around here to build a roof for it so it can be out in the yard.
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How about a shot of your pallet-built hay feeder? I bet others here'd appreciate it.Thanks for the input! I like the idea of feeding on the stand/milk table; we only have one right now, but maybe we can make another one or two, that could help a lot.
I'm excited about using pallets to build with; we can get broken ones for free right here in town, and intact for 75 cents, so it's a great source for wood.I made a hay feeder out of one yesterday and I can't wait to build some stalls soon as well.
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