Keeping goats outa chicken feed: a solution!

[CAjerseychick]

Well am running late, but had to share this, I think I found the solution (espec if you have minis) to keeping goats outa the feed--

so we cornered off a section of the yard with part of a cattle panel (wedged in good and tight, the goats arent moving it, I braced it with concrete blocks left over from when they redid the basement)-- then shoved a shallow rubber bowl (the kind you get at TSC or farm supply its bigger than a dinner plate, for grain feeding or a dog bowl)--
that way (we have minis and standard goats) even if the little goat-rats get their heads thru the cattle panel, they cant tip over the bowl (I braced this with more rocks)-- and - secret weapon!!!! wrapped the bowl/grainpan with 4in opening Ag wire! Suckers cant get their mouth in thru the openings and the chickens just stick their heads thru and eat...
I even have a cattle panel set up just for my big roo (Jersey Giant he cant fit thru the cattle panel openings) with a little opening for him to squeeze thru, so even if the minis get in part -way that bowl (similarly braced) isnt going anywhere-- and he can eat....
Well am back in 3 days will see how it worked out!

[wintrrwolf]

Ya got to post a pic or it didn't happen

[CAjerseychick]

Originally Posted by wintrrwolf

Ya got to post a pic or it didn't happen

Well... am not back for 3 days.... and will try then...

(I cannot believe I didnt think of this sooner)...I also have a plan to wrap their regular hanging feeder in 2in chicken wire and surround it (think a column floor to ceiling) with the 4in by 2in openings Ag Wire Fence (floor to ceiling)-- presently goats can get into chicken yard and at the feeders, so those feeders are empty.....

[aart]

Can't wait to see pics!

[K Epp]

My ND would run his tongue through the chicken wire of the coop to their feed bowl attached to the wall. Quick fix with a piece of plexiglass. He looked like a anteater.

[Cygnet]

I just put the chicken feed in a tray on the outside of a fence with 2X4" squares. The chickens could put their heads through the fence to eat, but the goats were blocked. (Though I still made sure that I didn't use medicated feed, which can be deadly to goats. You never know when one's going to get the bright idea to jump an impossible height over a fence.)

[CAjerseychick]

Yes I am currently stymied by the ND buckling he fits everywhere the chickens do and can get his mouth thru 2x4 in squares easily.... sigh back to the drawing board....(and yeah on the anteater thing....)- the chickens are scared of the goats in the chicken yard and now spend their days in the willow patch... lotsa wild birds about to be leaving out feed for them there (plus now the goats watch to see if the hens are getting fed and storm over to steal it).....
We dont use medicated feed either.... one less thing to go wrong....

[Frosted Mini's]

The goats should be the ones in the willow patch!

[CAjerseychick]

Originally Posted by Frosted Mini's

The goats should be the ones in the willow patch!

Oh dont worry they cruise there too, eat their fill and then wander off to the rest of the property.....(try at the feed in the garage, or off to the briar patch etc..)...

[CAjerseychick]

OK new solution. Electric netting... Chickens penned in behind it chowing away on their feed - everyone else on the other side...