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clydesdaleclopper

  • Joined Aug 2009
  • Aberdeenshire
Re: Putting chickens in with my goats
« Reply #15 on: July 06, 2015, 08:41:59 am »
My neighbours have a single elderly Kune Kune and their chickens choose to spend all their time in with her.  Only problem is they lay in her house and she eats the eggs ;D


Tut tut hasn't that pig read the regulations on eating animal byproducts  ::)
Our holding has Anglo Nubian and British Toggenburg goats, Gotland sheep, Franconian Geese, Blue Swedish ducks, a whole load of mongrel hens and two semi-feral children.

Jukes Mum

  • Joined Apr 2014
  • North Yorkshire
Re: Putting chickens in with my goats
« Reply #16 on: July 06, 2015, 09:16:41 am »
I keep most of my chickens in the sheep field. I have put their hut in a corner of the field and just put some stock netting around it to stop the sheep getting to the hut and feeder. I have cut a small bob hole in the netting for the chickens to get in and out. We have some goats staying for a while and no problems with them.
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laurelrus

  • Joined Apr 2014
  • Quainton,Buckinghamshire
  • Hobby farmer
Re: Putting chickens in with my goats
« Reply #17 on: July 06, 2015, 09:21:04 am »
Thanks Jukes Mum. That's exactly what we'll do. I think the sheep are less likely to be a problem than the goats!
2 pygmy goats, 3 Ouessant sheep, 19 chickens, 2 donkeys, 2 Shetland ponies and 2 dogs

sarab

  • Joined Jun 2015
    • New Start, New Life in Bulgaria
Re: Putting chickens in with my goats
« Reply #18 on: July 06, 2015, 11:17:38 am »
We have goats, ducks and chickens in the same area, The chicken and duck food is kept behind an electric fence raised high enough to let the birds underneath. I am lucky enough to have brick built sheds for keeping them all separate at night and they all know where they live. Water has to be in aa bucket attached to the wall to keep those mucky ducks from fouling it.

waterbuffalofarmer

  • Joined Apr 2014
  • Mid Wales
  • Owner of 61 Mediterranean water buffaloes
Re: Putting chickens in with my goats
« Reply #19 on: July 06, 2015, 11:29:03 am »
you could fence off part of the paddock with electric fencing, to keep the goats out, that would do the trick. :)
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