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First of all I would like to thank everyone who offered advice and feedback while I was designing my little barn :) I'm almost finished - just have to finish siding one last wall and build a roof over the goats' porch before winter. And re-do the fencing. But it's nearly finished and I LOVE it...

Hi folks! We are getting 2 Nigerian Dwarf doelings this week. We have temporary summer housing for them and will be building a small barn for them this summer. I'm hoping to get some feedback on the design from you experienced goat owners :) We are space-constrained. A 12 x 16 building is about...

We'll have a few Nigerian Dwarf does in a small 12 x 16 shed with a couple of stalls (larger loafing stall, smaller kidding. I'm really confused as to the best type of door to put on the communal stall. If it's a regular hinged door, then when shut it will keep out drafts but when open it's a...

Building a new small barn -yay! Question: is there any advantage to covering the inside of the framing, at least the lower half, with boards or plywood? I see this done both ways in photos of other people's barns. It seems like it might make cleaning out the stall easier without all those...

Hello, We live on a small <1 acre lot in the suburbs and are getting 2 Nigerian Dwarf does. We plan to fence in a part of our grassy lawn that is about 1000 square feet for them, but it has no shrubs or trees. We DO have a big chunk of wooded area that we could fence, but it's pretty soggy. In...

We try to do everything on our small suburban homestead as chemical-free as possible. We don't have pressure treated wood anywhere except for the floor joists in buildings. However, we're building a small pasture (~1,000 sf) for the two new Nigerian Dwarf dairy goats we are getting, and I'd...

Hi! We recently moved to about an acre in a semi-rural community in southern Maine. Our direct neighborhood is fairly dense and "neighborhood-y", though, so we've been careful to keep our agricultural pursuits as inoffensive to the community as possible. So far we've had only positive feedback...