ohiogoatgirl
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so I have another crazy idea.. of course! :mrgreen:
imagine a raised garden bed.. build your raised bed, fill it with dirt,... now put a roof over it... build nests on one end... cover the other three sides with cage wire.. and make it 10ft long and 5ft wide.. doors on the solid walled side to get into the nests easily.. and two parts of the roof opens up and can be locked shut so you can easily get into it as needed.. the anti-dig layer would be laid at the ground before being filled with dirt. I wouldn't mind them digging into the rather shallow bed area but I don't want escapees and I don't want endless tunnels and I don't want crazy wild kits that I cant check or anything.
now see my ever so lovely :roll: doodles for hopefully a slightly better idea of what I mean.
this would be for a couple does and litters. still have the buck in his own cage. and still have a big growout to separate bucklings into at weaning time, and probably butcher/sell them first. still have a second growout cage available if needed. doelings from the litters would probably stay in colony to growout and get butchered a little later than the bucklings.
now I do have tin actually! well sort of.. lol its a bit hodgepodged badly in the old goat pen and needs moved badly ((not my fault though..)) so really the only thing about this I couldn't do right now..
1) I am not entirely sure my stashed can of still straight odds-n-ends nails would be enough to nail the board base together
2) I would have to buy the cage wire.. so that would be pending until I get hired somewhere
3) I don't know what I would put as the base to keep them from digging out. I definitely have to put something because I do not want to chance doing all this and them dig out! because that's my luck! :roll: and I already know I don't want to try something that wont last like chicken wire. I will have to see if I could scavenge enough bricks and rocks...
4) I am not entirely sure dad wont have a fit about too many projects and using the tin roofing.. even though the roofing has been laying out there and I am 90% sure it will be half decayed before he uses it in his own time :| but that's how he is and can be... so I need a secondary roofing idea to come up with just in case
love to know anything and everything yall think of the idea!
imagine a raised garden bed.. build your raised bed, fill it with dirt,... now put a roof over it... build nests on one end... cover the other three sides with cage wire.. and make it 10ft long and 5ft wide.. doors on the solid walled side to get into the nests easily.. and two parts of the roof opens up and can be locked shut so you can easily get into it as needed.. the anti-dig layer would be laid at the ground before being filled with dirt. I wouldn't mind them digging into the rather shallow bed area but I don't want escapees and I don't want endless tunnels and I don't want crazy wild kits that I cant check or anything.
now see my ever so lovely :roll: doodles for hopefully a slightly better idea of what I mean.
this would be for a couple does and litters. still have the buck in his own cage. and still have a big growout to separate bucklings into at weaning time, and probably butcher/sell them first. still have a second growout cage available if needed. doelings from the litters would probably stay in colony to growout and get butchered a little later than the bucklings.
now I do have tin actually! well sort of.. lol its a bit hodgepodged badly in the old goat pen and needs moved badly ((not my fault though..)) so really the only thing about this I couldn't do right now..
1) I am not entirely sure my stashed can of still straight odds-n-ends nails would be enough to nail the board base together
2) I would have to buy the cage wire.. so that would be pending until I get hired somewhere
3) I don't know what I would put as the base to keep them from digging out. I definitely have to put something because I do not want to chance doing all this and them dig out! because that's my luck! :roll: and I already know I don't want to try something that wont last like chicken wire. I will have to see if I could scavenge enough bricks and rocks...
4) I am not entirely sure dad wont have a fit about too many projects and using the tin roofing.. even though the roofing has been laying out there and I am 90% sure it will be half decayed before he uses it in his own time :| but that's how he is and can be... so I need a secondary roofing idea to come up with just in case
love to know anything and everything yall think of the idea!