A goat with chickens AND rabbits???

[manybirds]

are you sure we don't live in the same house???

@ ksj0225 - I agree that the statement that the chickens might get hurt or spoil water is general. It is good to point that out. Generalizations are abundant when it comes to animal care. It doesn't mean they are not true. We just need to understand what are the possibilities, the precautions, and the steadfast rules.

I think our chickens work well in the goat pens because the goats have plenty of room, the chickens have their own feeding/watering area outside the goat pen where food and water is constantly available to them (which makes the goat water tubs seem unattractive), and our chickens are Sumatras - "wild-like" chickens that we've found have excellent survival skills for free roaming. However, the chickens in our other pen (RIR, Plymouth Rock, Wyandotte), they're much further removed from their jungle fowl ancestors and are dumb as posts in comparison to the Sumatras. LOL It might be feasible that those birds might get into trouble if a goat had it out for them.

u still havn't convinced me we don't live in the same house. I keep sumatra's and wyandotte's too.

 

[elevan]

Space that you have matters. Individual animals that you have matters.

Generalizing that you cannot do it is something that I am against. Anything is possible under the right set of circumstances.

You do need to keep the goats out of the chicken and rabbit feed. You also need to keep the chickens out of the goat's hay racks. There are ways to accomplish those things.

 

[Ms. Research]

Space that you have matters. Individual animals that you have matters.

Generalizing that you cannot do it is something that I am against. Anything is possible under the right set of circumstances.

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[kstaven]

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