So I have a few feeding questions, interspersed with housing questions. We have three Gotland/Finn crosses and two Alpine/Lamancha crosses. We plan on having two of the adult ewes pregnant over the winter as well as the goats. Right now they share a barn which has free access to the pasture. The plan for next year is to build a sheep house in the centre of our pasture and then rotate their grazing around it in a pie shaped pattern, but finances are tapped out this year so we'd like them to share the barn until next spring. The goats are in a stall overnight so they don't get into trouble, ask me how many times I've come in in the morning to find they'd broken out of their stall and busted through the gate to the hay loft...honestly. 
We talked to a nutritionist about mineral and they suggested offering all of them sheep mineral since getting a bag of each would last us forever since we only have five animals. We're also going to offer salt. As well we bought the biggest bag of DE I've ever seen and we plan on mixing it in with the chicken feed for the birds (who also share the barn for that matter) but I'm unsure how to offer that to the goats and sheep as they don't eat grain. So, my questions...
1. Does the housing situation pose any problems? Should we plan to have them in a sheep house in the pasture before they lamb so I don't have animals birthing all over the barn?
2. Since both goats are going to kid in the spring do I need to separate them from each other?
3. How do you offer mineral for a group of animals? Do I just set up buckets of each salt and mineral in the barn?
4. Any ideas of how to get DE into the goats and sheep in the right amounts for worming?
We talked to a nutritionist about mineral and they suggested offering all of them sheep mineral since getting a bag of each would last us forever since we only have five animals. We're also going to offer salt. As well we bought the biggest bag of DE I've ever seen and we plan on mixing it in with the chicken feed for the birds (who also share the barn for that matter) but I'm unsure how to offer that to the goats and sheep as they don't eat grain. So, my questions...1. Does the housing situation pose any problems? Should we plan to have them in a sheep house in the pasture before they lamb so I don't have animals birthing all over the barn?
2. Since both goats are going to kid in the spring do I need to separate them from each other?
3. How do you offer mineral for a group of animals? Do I just set up buckets of each salt and mineral in the barn?
4. Any ideas of how to get DE into the goats and sheep in the right amounts for worming?
