How We Provided Shelter & Containment for Our Goats When we first signed Kelsey up for 4H and she became interested in goats we started doing some research. The main topic we were looking for is what goats needed, what kind of shelter, supplies, enclosure, etc. Starting with shelter, we looked at several buildings that…
The Boys’ Side When the opportunity came to get a great deal on a buck to start our goat adventure, we found ourselves in a bit of a predicament. The goat pen was not complete, we had no shelter, and no area fenced off to contain goats. How were we going to house and contain…
We had held off on building a fence when we first moved in because Drew and I had plans for a certain style of fence. The cost of the fence we wanted was more than our budget would allow at the time. However, between the neighborhood dogs and the birds wandering into our neighbors’ yards…
We knew sectioning off the front of the coop was a temporary situation and we would need to work on improving the coop. The birds were going to need more space as they grew, especially the turkeys. We removed the remaining joists and most of the concrete and did our best to level out the…
Our property came with a 16ftx8ft shed that had a lot of random stuff left behind by the previous owners. We left it alone for a bit, as it took us awhile to fully unpack and purge things we brought from our previous home, and we really didn’t need it at the time. The shed…
Our vegetable garden has been a slow build over the five years we have been here. When we moved in there was a small, raised bed garden in the back yard. It was built with two landscape timbers stacked on top of each other for the border. At this time our garden experience was limited…
When we were finally able to own goats, we had to register them and Kelsey with the American Dairy Goat Association (ADGA). Goats must be registered to be part of the dairy goat shows. Does that mean you have to be registered to own dairy goats, in general no. However, for our purposes, showing goats…
We live on a quarter acre of land in a small rural town in Missouri that we bought in 2019. We fell in love with this house pretty quickly, there were a couple of houses we looked at after this one. However, we just kept talking about it and decided to come back for a…
