Breeding goats at home is quite a profitable, it is milk, and meat, and wool. To all other things, the goats are very unpretentious animals that need a minimum of care: in the summer they feed on the stern, and in winter - hay, branches and even ordinary waste.
Goats feel bad alone, so if you decide to start several animals at once, you need to think about how to build a goat with your own hands. This is not at all difficult, because the goats are not afraid of cold and heat, so you will not have to make a lot of effort in building a good quality, on the contrary, these animals are unique that in a matter of days can get used to the most conditions.
Rules of Khodi
- The room in which the goats will live should be clean and dry. It should not be drafts and must be ventilation.
- Goats should be clean, dirty wool need to be coated.
- Do not forget about hooves - they must be cut as they grow. But it is necessary to do it carefully, so as not to damage the vascular tissue. If blood performed, the wound must be treated with alum and iodine.
- One goat is necessary space in one and a half square meters, the goat from 6 to 12 months is needed 0.8 square meters, and goats with goats - at least 2.5 square meters.
- Together with the goats, it is impossible to contain birds, especially Curia, as the goats can pick up the cavity parasites.
- Goats are highly jumping, so the fence for goats should have a height from 1.5 to 2 meters.
- If there is one or two goats in the goats, then a small window can serve as ventilation, and it is not necessary to build a stretch.
- Ventilation can serve as an exhaust pipe, which, when necessary, open, and when it is not necessary, it stands closed. From above, the pipe must be installed, which will protect the room from snow and rain.
- Natural lighting is needed, so it is necessary to make a window on the southern wall. Its height should be at a distance of one and a half meters from the floor.
- So that the lighting was normal, the area of \u200b\u200bthe room should be 15-20 times the windows.
- The floor in the goat must be made of a board: it keeps the heat again, it remains clean longer.
- Walls need to disinfect - this can be done by the usual whitewash (kilogram of oversized lime + water bucket).
- Despite the fact that the goats are unpretentious animals, the temperature in the winter period should not be below 6-7ºC. Basically, if the house for goats was built correctly, then it is not necessary to give the room - this goat temperature is created by themselves. If the goat with a goat, then the temperature is mainly above - about 8-10ºC.
- In the summer period of time in a room where goats are contained, it should be cool.
- If you are engaged in breeding goats, then the room is necessary to flare into several separate contamines with doors.
- Goats in the room are not tied, as such individuals are less confident in themselves, not so beyond and give less milk.
- In the pens, it is necessary to equip the nursery for the bulk feed and feeding feeders for feeding animal by concentrates and root.
- You can feed the goat from the floor, but it is uneconomically, since the animal just covers food.
- For the sleep of animals, it is necessary in the fence to build special dilutions - elevations above the floor of about 45 centimeters. The width of such a "lay" is about 55 centimeters. It is much warmer here than on the floor, so the goats love to sleep on the hills. In addition, it is believed that goats that sleep on such layers do not hurt witnesses.
- The goat must be adjusted to the chapter, where animals can take walks.
- Goats can be fed in the pen up to -12ºC. At a lower temperature, animals are best breeded in the room.
Rules for the content of Kozlov
- The goat can not contain in one room with goats, otherwise its smell can go to goats and to milk.
- The goat should have its own feeder and drivingker.
- One goat requires space in two square meters.
- The goat from goats should be isolated by a hedge height of at least one and a half meters.
- Kozlov can be kept by groups - if they live separately from the goats, then they are more like more friendly relations.
- It is much more difficult to deal with one goat with existing goats than several manufacturers.
How to build a goatnik
Goats can be kept in general hlev with other animals by making them a small pound, and you can build a separate good room. The second option is preferable for those who are going to contain several animals at once.
If you do not know how big the construction of the goat is trying to you, the first thing you need to decide how many animals you will contain, what age they will be, and whether you plan to breed goats or you will buy small and raise up to a certain age. Before determined, remember:
- Animals will be much more convenient in a special room where the stall will be provided.
- This is especially important if you get sacrite individuals - they can not be completely isolated, but the pen is the most correct solution.
- Milk can decrease both due to crampedness, therefore, in a stall, two two meters can be kept no more than two individuals.
- Goats with goats, and then separately the goat must be kept in a separate stall - here they will have to be several months.
- A separate stall for youngsters can then be used as a laspier (necessarily disinfecting this room after each "tenant").
Now, after you have decided on the number of animals, and, based on this, with the area of \u200b\u200bthe room, you can proceed directly to the construction of the goat.
Selection of space for construction
Goat's rue is not difficult to build. First thing, you have to choose the place - it should be dry, and the highest in the area. Backyard patio should be located on the south side, as, indeed, and the facade of a milk vetch.
The goat's rue have to be light - in winter goats should spend at least eight hours in a brightly lit room.
Care should be taken that the air temperature was in the range of 6-10 degrees above zero, and the humidity at 75%. If it is too wet and cold in the goat's rue, it will lead to the emergence of diseases in animals, both infectious and viral.
Paul kozljatnika
- Foundation for goat's rue can make shallow - a maximum of one bayonet spade.
- After pouring the concrete foundation is necessary to wait a few days to design and hardened to defend.
- Concrete floor for goats will not work, because it is very cold for them. However, many close its special wooden platforms.
- The wooden floor is not practical, as it can quickly rot.
- Ideal for goats is considered an earthen floor or adobe - the height should be 20 cm from ground level.
- The floor of the milk vetch should be inclined - for fluid flow.
- To get rid of the bad smell in the milk vetch, liquid stack needs to be done in a special container, which then will need to be emptied.
walls kozljatnika
- The walls in the milk vetch should be strong and not to pass drafts.
- Walls vetch may be mud, adobe, log, plank, brick, shlakoblochnogo - depending on where they live and a host of possibilities.
- The walls must be securely caulked to avoid crevices.
- If you are staying on the wooden shed, you can sheathe his second walls.
- The gaps between the walls may be filled with improvised means: pine needles, leaves, peat, sawdust.
- The walls should be at least two meters.
- Windows vetch should go to the south.
- That the animals were not able to get to the windows, they should be located at a minimum height of 1.5 meters from the floor.
Stall for goats
Stall may notice simplify the content of goats in the vetch. But do not forget that the goats are herd animals, so to isolate only one individual is necessary in the case where it is vital for the animals, for example, if a goat butting or ill.
- Corral two goats must have an area of \u200b\u200bfour square meters.
- The stall is often stacked metal floors or flat sloped slate.
- Fence corral made of planks.
- The height of the fence should be at least 1.2 meters.
- The door to the pen must be from the grid - steel galvanized on the frame.
- In the pen must be a feeder and drivingker.
Feeders for kats.
- The most comfortable feeder is the one that will not force you to go to the pen to feed the animals.
- The feeder for the hay is located at a distance of 50 centimeters from the floor.
- The feeder must be hung on the inner wall of the goat.
- Install a special small feeder for salt and mineral additives.
- On the opposite wall from the feeder hang hotkee.
- If you feed goats on the street - in the pen, take care so that the feeder is covered - had a small roof, which is not only protected from moisture, but also goats.
Koz
Goats love moving a lot, so near the goat you need to make a pen. This walking courtyard should only belong to the goats, there should not be extraneous animals and birds. Goats are not horses and not a cow - there is no need to build big pots, nevertheless, its presence is required, as the pen is necessary for the goats: in the fresh air they grow healthier, hardened and well developed.
- The headband is built near the goat - he represents a flowing courtyard surrounded by a hedge.
- The hedge must be at least 1.5 meters.
- The most comfortable, but the most density is wooden. True, the goats sometimes, from boredom, can nibble a tree, so sometimes between the boards "allow the wire" to beat off the horty to spoil the fence.
- The tree should be strong, in no case are not drowned.
- Wire hedge contributes to "shoots", as it is convenient to rely on it, and then overcome the obstacle.
- Wire hedge can lead to animal injuries.
- The hedge must be strong, as a frightened goat can break a weak fence.
- The pen should be located on the hill - it should be dry place, water here should not be gathered here - the goat is sick from dampness.
- Over the head can be put on a canopy - the roof will protect goats from rain or direct sunlight.
- The door to the pen should be opened inside, necessarily there should be a strong lock - otherwise the goats can go to the sick.