Tips and tricks for combining a goat and chicken barn 

Finally, someone that actually uses their head to maximize the utilization of space and resources. This is just what I have been looking for. Thanks a bunch.

I think your barn is so cool! I love how creative you are with the bunk beds! I think you could run a goat version of an AirBnB!

I love the idea of lessening predators by having the goats close by, I am re-thinking how I want to organize our layout when we move to our new small lot in Jan!

Love your barn with the trees beside it and how your barn is on a hill. Beautiful! Love your lay out. Innovative. Good way to make raising chickens and goats easier

Wow this is the best set up I’ve seen. I can’t wait till I can expand from rabbits to goats and chickens.

I appreciate how frugal you are 👍🏽

This is awesome! Thank you for sharing this video. You inspired me!

These are all literally genius ideas. Thank you so much for this video.

THIS. IS. GENIUS! Wow! Such efficient use of space! I'm totally going to copy this! Amazing! Subscribed! Well done sir!

Wow 😮 i'm seriously in grateful for yiu sharing your ideas. You just solved multiple of our issues. we have 8 goats and we are ptetty new to being goat parents. We our lil guys at 2 days old last year unexpectedly so we have been learning as we go. i subscribed to your channel today. thank you again passing on your knowledge.

Awesome idea! Thank you so much!

This is amazing. Thank you so much! One suggestion is to build a frame around the outdoor goat feeding trough using 2x4's, and then put in 2x4's vertically as well, with the end result being holes which they can stick their heads into, but they can't jump into. Taking it even further, you could make a V shape hole so they have to stick their head in up top and move it down lower, then they might not be able to pull back and drop food on the ground while chewing. This would only seem useful imo if feeding chunks of produce that they had a tendency to bite and drop because it's tough to get in one mouth full.

This was a great video! Thanks for the tips. We're starting our herd and are hoping to keep the chickens with/near them.

Thanks for sharing!

Thank you so much for this video.

That took some planning. Well thought out. 👍👍🇨🇦

Great design. Thank you for sharing.

Nice set up

great ideas, especially the goat body guards.

Very good video, thanks.

Thanks for the info

❤Kia Ora from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺 Thank You

Thank you

Thank you 👍🙂

It's really helpful thanks for wonderful video .....

Nice shed love it....

Love it

Thanks 😊

Probably 8 years that I have had chickens and the hens love to sleep and crap in the nesting boxes, and it dawned on me the other day that it might be because the laying boxes are higher than the roosts, so I'm thinking of putting my nesting boxes closer to the ground, lower than the roosts. Seeing your setup and I think that's why, because you have that perch sticking out so they can go inside and lay eggs and it's obvious that they are sleeping and crapping on that perch. Has anyone else came to that conclusion or is it something obvious that I am just now realizing? That pallet on the floor in the goat's pen is begging for rats and snakes to make their nests underneath. I wouldn't put a framed wood floor for goats or chickens because rotting is inevitable. My goats lay happily on the ground they built up with hay and their own poop. I did find some really good tips in this video though. I like what you did with the compost pile. For years I've been throwing food scraps in the chicken coop, but lately they don't seem to eat it and it brings in a ton of flies, so offering them to the goats and chickens sounds like a good idea.

Outstanding

I put a small roof over the goat feeder with an slanted top so chicken don’t get on top. It stop the goat from getting on top and pooping on it on their feed.

Hi, I love your barn!! Very practical. I’m a beginner in the farm life, basically a city chick who inherited a lot of land in a country area so I always have questions… did you have to train/teach the chickens to go through the hole from the goat side into the chicken side or did they just know? Thank you for your video, I gained a ton of information!

I love your setup and have been working toward the same idea. How many chickens do you have and how big is their coop space?

Really great ideas and good use of work smarter and not harder! We only have 6 chickens and they are hard work! I can always appreciate any tricks to get more out of your effort!

What kind of flooring is it?

So I see by watching your videos that your male goat is in with your females most of the time do you leave your buck in your round only reason I ask that is Nigerian dwarf goats cycle every 21 days and I’m looking into getting into breeding them, and some people say to separate the males. Just wondering what your take is on it

Awesome barn! How did youtube know I wanted to combine those animals? I need to research if the moisture from the goats breathing (and pooping) will contribute to frostbitten combs during sub zero weather. Any thoughts on hard winters with that set up?

Great ideas! I have 4 ND does, I'm about to get a buck for breeding. Let me ask you, since you keep your buck with the herd do you have any problems with him trying to breed the kid goats? Also, do you separate your kids with their moms once they're born?

Do I have to get chicken and goat feed or can they just graze off of the couple of acres I’m getting ?

Love your channel. Is this barn insulated?

Good job. Do you milk your goats?

This makes sense I lost a goat who broke into my chickens coop and ate their food , so I often see people have them together and don’t how that works

Do your bucks sleep in the same area as the does?

I’m new to homesteading so i might be wrong but is it possible that the chickens could pass diseases to the goats and vice versa?

What are the goats used for?

What about insulation?

How do you control all the urine?

Can you talk about adding ducks to the mix? LOL

Kalo

U need to clean up all the chicken poop .

I think your forgetting that goats pee aswell

The huge amounts of shit everywhere is scary.

My friend. This may be the nastiest barn I've ever seen. Please clean out their water bowl.