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Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: maddy on May 04, 2013, 09:56:54 am

Title: starting hard feed for kids
Post by: maddy on May 04, 2013, 09:56:54 am

Has anyone else worked out a good way for kids to access an area to eat alone without the free for all with mums and last years kids eating it all first.

I am wanting the kids to be able to come and go as they please.

Last year we knocked up a pen but the mums were so greedy they would get themselves wedged into the small cut out door we'd made for the kids.

I know you can probably buy a sheep creep set up but they are abit too pricey.

All of my goats are in a shed together.

Title: Re: starting hard feed for kids
Post by: jaykay on May 04, 2013, 10:08:35 am

I make a square with wooden hurdles and put the kids' feed inside. One or two of the hurdles I put vertically and the kids, for weeks, can fit through the widest space that would have been at the top of the hurdle - but the older goats can't.

Title: Re: starting hard feed for kids
Post by: Carl f k on May 04, 2013, 11:05:32 am

i put mum on her milking stand and give the kids a bucket

Title: Re: starting hard feed for kids
Post by: Dogwalker on May 04, 2013, 06:44:10 pm

I need a way to stop the chickens stealing the food from under the kids noses. ::)
 
The morning feed is ok before I let the hens out but the evening I can't distact them long enough for the kids to eat and I don't want to wait till late when the hens go in.

Title: Re: starting hard feed for kids
Post by: Lesley Silvester on May 05, 2013, 10:14:09 pm

Quote from: Dogwalker on May 04, 2013, 06:44:10 pm

I need a way to stop the chickens stealing the food from under the kids noses. ::)
 

I know it's not really funny but  :roflanim: