ther sometimes tries my girls (dogs), but she just gets up and gose lay down in the doghouse. They all eat from Everyone else bowl. I mix my all stock and cracked corn in the bin. But I have caught the goats and chickens eating the dog food and the girls eating the goats food.
What goat food do you feed? Do you worry about impacted crop if the chickens eat the hay? I am in the beginning stages of letting my chickens hang out with the new goats and them food swapping is stressing me out 😅We have 2 goats housed with our chickens. Up until 2 months ago, they all stayed in the same house... We had a ladder roost in the goat house that the chickens used. This was the setup the previous owner used for many years. However, we built a separate chicken coop because I didn't like the goats having to sleep in there with the chickens pooping from above. Wasn't too bad for the chickens but certainly not very sanitary for the goats. Now they sleep in separate buildings but they still share the same fenced run. Everyone is happy, clean, and sanitary.
I keep free choice chicken feeders in the chicken coop where the goats cannot get to it. The chickens love to steal the goat food every morning when I feed them...ha ha. And likewise, when I toss out the chicken scratch, the goats have a heyday so I guess they all figure it's a fair trade.
