Youngfarmer2019
True BYH Addict
Im in need of advice. Here's my situation (it gets a little confusing)
(BACKSTORY) We have been fencing in my grandmas property so she can take her (very disobedient) dog back, a great pyrenees that jumps every fence and gate we have. That fencing job is our top priority right now. The problem is, since we are trying to get her side of the property fenced, we are having to unexpectedly postpone fencing our back pasture, where I planned on having all the goats moved to before they kid.
OK, now to the problem...
The first doe (talking goats here, not rabbits) is due in March or April, I have one, possibly two due in late April/early may. I don't think we're going to get the back pasture fenced before March. The goats are moved to pasture on a different part of the property every morning and moved to their nighttime pen every evening at 4:30. This is so they can get an adequate amount of browse time and so they aren't cooped up in a pen too small for six goats. When the does kid should I leave moms and babies in the nighttime pen until the babies grow up (the other goats would sleep with them every night)? They can't be moved with the other goats because 1. i don't think they could keep up (the other goats run to pasture in the morning), and 2. the pasture they would be going to every morning has a pond in it and I know kids like to play and I don't want them falling off the dock or falling into the pond and drowning. I can possibly set up a small, separate pen with cattle panel for does and their babies, but it would be in a hard to reach place in part of the back pasture.
I just don't know what to do with mom and babies until the back pasture is fenced

(BACKSTORY) We have been fencing in my grandmas property so she can take her (very disobedient) dog back, a great pyrenees that jumps every fence and gate we have. That fencing job is our top priority right now. The problem is, since we are trying to get her side of the property fenced, we are having to unexpectedly postpone fencing our back pasture, where I planned on having all the goats moved to before they kid.
OK, now to the problem...
The first doe (talking goats here, not rabbits) is due in March or April, I have one, possibly two due in late April/early may. I don't think we're going to get the back pasture fenced before March. The goats are moved to pasture on a different part of the property every morning and moved to their nighttime pen every evening at 4:30. This is so they can get an adequate amount of browse time and so they aren't cooped up in a pen too small for six goats. When the does kid should I leave moms and babies in the nighttime pen until the babies grow up (the other goats would sleep with them every night)? They can't be moved with the other goats because 1. i don't think they could keep up (the other goats run to pasture in the morning), and 2. the pasture they would be going to every morning has a pond in it and I know kids like to play and I don't want them falling off the dock or falling into the pond and drowning. I can possibly set up a small, separate pen with cattle panel for does and their babies, but it would be in a hard to reach place in part of the back pasture.
I just don't know what to do with mom and babies until the back pasture is fenced

