Building a Barn

                                              

We brought some of our animals with us to this one acre lot (with a bit of the land including a slope down to a brook that isn't usable) - 6 goats, 8 chickens, 2 ducks and our guinea hen. Already on the property was a cinderblock building (used to be a chicken incinerator when meat chickens were a huge thing in the is part of Maine) with a large overhang. Mike and I drove over to Maine a week before closing on the house to make two stalls under the overhang for the goats and also build a simple greenhouse structure for the birds.

The animals had to wait until our new septic system could be installed before we could work on their permanent housing and fenced in area. In the meantime Mike added a small bit of fencing on each side of the stalls for the goats.

Before the new barn was finished my sweet goat of 14 1/2 years, Madeline, died. Sad for sure but she lived a long and healthy life until the end.

Here is the barn that Mike built. It has three sections - two for goats and one for the chickens - and is 12' x 12"

Off the front is a large fenced in area that the small goats, chickens and ducks share.

Inside the chicken coop part of the barn:

The hay feeder in the goats' stall:

Next up is to remove the large overhang as it is not attractive and it will let us have a view of the animals' fenced in area and provide a bit more open land.