A question about Nigerian Dwarf size

dozedotz · #21 10/18/13, 03:53 PM

That's funny, I was just about to say, "That's all well and good until somebody loses an eye." Do I know your mother?

Squeaky McMurdo · #22 10/20/13, 11:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Frosted Mini's

Like I said, mine are usually too big by 3-4 months old. Your guy must be really small. I have the same kind of cattle panels that you do.

Ditto....but Lily the yearling can fit through if the cattle panel is oriented so that the 6" is up and down. She can't if the 4" is. Do you perchance have a cut cattle panel that is sitting that way?

sriston · #23 10/22/13, 01:57 PM

Nope, our cattle panel has the 6" part sideways so the chickens and ducks can fit through. (And little goats, apparently.) Sorry for the untimely response.

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sriston · #24 10/23/13, 06:44 AM

An update..

We made a "cage" of the 2x4 fencing to go around the chicken/duck feeding pans. Our geese cannot fit their bills in the openings but that's no big deal because a goat dare not approach the geese when they are eating or they will get "goosed". The chickens and ducks could eat just fine through the openings. So could Leroy.

Back to the drawing board..and this time my husband made a cover for the feeding pans (which are cat litter pans) out of chicken wire. The chickens can eat from it easily, but the ducks can't so we still have to come up with something Leroy-proof for them. For now, Leroy can't eat from the chicken feeders, much to his dismay.

As for the rabbit feeders (our rabbits free range, too), we took an unused rabbit nesting box, anchored it to the wall (because Leroy flipped it over at first) and put their food bowl inside it. The door of the nesting box is small (although Leroy can get his head in) and the box is deep enough so that the food bowl can't be reached by Leroy (now that he can't flip the box over).

Gads what a lot of work that little goat has created!