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08/08/11, 02:43 AM
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I feel horrible. I have been killing my goats. The chickens were free ranging among the goats. The baby goats are dropping one after the other. I just learned why. I am so disgusted with myself.
So for any newbie out there, don't let your chickens hang out with your goats. I have discovered this the hard way. I had no idea. But I should have looked into it first.
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08/08/11, 02:49 AM
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I've never heard of any problems mixing goats and chickens
What do you think it is?
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08/08/11, 03:05 AM
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Yeah, I'm curious too. Our chickens hop in and out of the goat pastures all the time. They basically ignore one another, and the goats are interested in the browse much higher than the chickens could ever foul.
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08/08/11, 05:14 AM
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I'm curious too. I do so wish posters would give a little more details when they make a blanket statement like the OP did. (I have let my chickens free-range daily with the goats and even go in and scratch up the goat bedding. They get locked up in their own house at night; but during they day they are in the barn...so are the geese, though the geese prefer the trees.)
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08/08/11, 06:24 AM
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I bet is it because of coccidia.
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08/08/11, 06:34 AM
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Coccidia is host relaged. I have always read that one species can't get it from another. Is that now wrong?
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08/08/11, 06:47 AM
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salmonella?
oh, and my chickens have been hanging out with my goats for 7 years. it helps keep the flies down.
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08/08/11, 06:56 AM
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I have had my chickens go into the goat pen for years and years with no adverse affects. They did NOT live together and the chickens were not allowed to roost in the goat barn. I was told years ago not to let my cats in the goat barn too but they are mousers and go where the mice go.
Really sorry to hear of your tragedy. Who told you that the chickens were the cause?????
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08/08/11, 07:24 AM
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Maybe they ate the chicken food
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08/08/11, 07:37 AM
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I don't have chickens but have ducks so I am curious too. I'm wondering if they were eating the chicken feed too?
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08/08/11, 07:54 AM
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My chickens,ducks and goats all free range together. The chickens cruise all over the property. I don't get what the problem is 
I'm sorry DM...but stop beating yourself up. It sounds like a common practice to have chickens and goats together. What happened?????!!!!!
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08/08/11, 08:00 AM
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If your goats were dying to parasites, it was not because of the chickens. It's a very common practice to free-range them together.
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08/08/11, 08:00 AM
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I would bet it's coccidia, even though the reports say that coccidia is species specific. One of the strains that affects chickens is the exact same strain that affects goats according to the research that I was reading. Unfortunately, I have had the same problems this year since half my chicken flock decided roosting in the goat barn was nicer than going back to the chicken coop at night. I had no problems when they simply went in there during the day to clean up or when they spent the day in the pasture with the goats. But this year, they suddenly decided to stay in there at night and it was difficult climbing ladders to get chickens down and take them to the coop. So I left them. I lost two kids to coccidia and one has had to be treated twice. The chickens are now locked up in their coop and in their nice new fenced in yard and I spent one whole day scrubbing and bleaching the goat barn from top to bottom. Anyway, just my thoughts. Blessings, Kat
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08/08/11, 08:22 AM
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goats do not get coccidiosis from birds or chickens.
do you have a link to that study?
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08/08/11, 10:13 AM
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It's not the chickens.
What are the symptoms? It might be preventable.
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08/08/11, 10:37 AM
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YYYEEESSSS.....
not enough info....
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08/08/11, 10:45 AM
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I understood it was _usually_ species specific. Toxoplasma is in the coccidia family and we can catch it from cats... OP may have had one that can be transmitted?
ETA: I don't know what happened, was just sharing what I'd found on a search. Hopefully the OP will share soon so we'll know what the cause was :-)
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Hmmm.... as soon as my chicks feathered out I put them in the buck's pen.....Once fully grown I have to move them because the miniature buck rapes large birds..... I'm now on my second batch of young birds living with the goats. I have a feeder outside of the fence (chainlink) the chicks pop their heads through to eat medicated chick food & I mix a bit of scratch grains & layer pellets & sprinkle lightly in the pen under old hay for the chicks to dig after. Works great for me & the chickens keep the wasp out of the water & help with the fly population....
To the OP, I'm sorry for your losses, but if you could come back & tell us what caused the deaths it would be helpful & could possibly help prevent losses for others in the future.
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08/08/11, 01:09 PM
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I used to let the chickens with goats but got real tired of chicken deposits in the hay rack & water!
Until further info Im going with the Goats Ate Chicken Feed theory.
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08/08/11, 01:12 PM
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My bucks always lived with the chickens without any problems. I wonder what the OP thinks it is that killed the goats.
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