Goats on freedom eat almost all plants. The exception is only two or three plants that they avoid. When the cold is coming, and the goat ceases to graze in the meadow, the owner needs to take place in the stall for feeding.
Despite all his presence and goodwill, goats are animals with character. Their essence is such that they simply cannot fail to overeat food. Most often, they "steal" hay through the fence, some can eat, and part throw on the floor, as a litter. What was thrown on the floor, the goat will never take. To solve this problem and literally "raise" the stroke animal, it is necessary to build a feeder for goats with your own hands.
Getting to work
For the construction of a nursery, it will not be necessary to spend a lot of strength and spend money on materials. If you have a place for the night stay of goats, in particular - a barn or indoor pen, you can install a container for the hay. The choice of space for feeding goats will not be much difficulty - the main thing is to install the feeder so that the animals are not crowded, they are not confused under their feet. The most suitable option is to install a feeder for goats in the corner of the room. For the facilities, the feeders need to be prepared:
- nails;
- self-tapping screw;
- hammer;
- plane;
- chainsaw;
- boards.
Work begins on the manufacture of "dining room" for animals from the most important - preparation of the material. For the feeder, you need to cut several boards suitable in the size of the corner of the chamber or shed. Next, you need to nail two boards (sewn) at a short distance from each other from below and one thorish in the middle. The result of the work can be seen on this photo:
The next step in the facilities of the feeder will be alternately creating a frame. To do this, you need to take thin boards (stakenat) and fasten or navigate them with the help of self-tapping screws or nails to the top and bottom plank frame of the future feeder. Thus, you will have a similarity of the fence, through which goats like to steal food. As a result, such a simple structure should be obtained:
After performing all the stages of the crude constructions for animals, it is checked in action. The feeder is filled with food for goats and offer them to enjoy. All the mess who was previously present in the piping or stall will now not be so annoying the owners. And the goats will be doubly more pleasant to be in a clean piping and satisfy their instincts, literally "warp" from the fence of their feed.
Several ordinary tips
And, despite the fact that the work on the construction of the place for food animals is not much difficult, adhere to the basic rules, how to make a feeder for goats, it is still necessary. When creating a design, it is necessary to take into account its height. The height should be optimal. This means the following:
- The goat should not jump over the "fence" and from there to throw a hay.
- The height of the feeder should be about a meter or a little more.
But it was from the height of the feeding bag every owner must decide. This indicator affects the number of goats in the barn.
Second version of the feeder
Constructions of feeder for goats under the hay There are several types. Consider one of the options. For the facilities of the feeder, we will need the same building materials and tools, add wooden peasants to this list (bars). For the construction of a nursery, you need to install four wooden cavals and bore them with thin boards. There should be a wooden frame.
After the construction of the frame, it needs to be seen to get a small pen. Material for the construction of a frame can be the usual major mesh or a stakenik. You can use another building material, for example, for fencing. Options can pick up a lot if you go to the construction store. It is worth paying attention to the grids for rodents, they are made of plastic and easy to attach them.
Here is such a simple method of making feeding feeders for the goats will allow you to contain the hay in order. Food in such a feeder is loaded through the top, but you can improve the design slightly and make the hinges on one side for the convenience of filling it with hay. Capacity for feed can be built by any size, it will depend on the size of the barn in which the goats are located.
When building such a type of feeder, the floor in the barn should be necessary to make food without spoil into crude weather. If there is no floor in the barn, just the time to do it. If it is decided to make the high-quality floor in the goat, then these works are performed before the feeder is installed. The material for the floor serves a metal sheet or chipboard sheets.
Third option to create a feeder
If you are kids in the pen in the pen, they need to take a separate place to power. For small goats make special feeders width about twenty centimeters and no more than ten centimeters high. From the practical recommendations of experienced goat razers, it is possible to draw conclusions that if the kids are fed by different types of feed, then the sizes of feeders should be different. For example, if the kids are served hard food, the width of the nursery should be slightly greater than the half-meter, and the height is less than a meter. If the owner feeds goats with roots and other concentrated feed, then the feeder should have other dimensions: the width is forty centimeters and the height of no more than thirty five centimeters.
And such a feeder can be built in advance and install anywhere, both in the stall and in the shed. For the summer period, Nursery is installed on the house so that the goat, which is in the fresh air near the barn, was able to eat.
The advantages of such a portable feeder is that it has the floor, and if the goat will throw the hay to the outside, it will be possible to return it back.
Experience overseas farmers
French farmers grow goats not as our Russian farmers. Most of the time animals are in the fresh air. This is due to a softer climate of France, which cannot be said about Russia. According to the French, goats, in the fresh air feel more freely. Also farmers, when putting goats into closed pens, do not tie them, but provide them with complete freedom.
As in Russia, French farmers pay great attention to the comfortable nutrition of the goats. Feeders, which are installed in the pens, should contribute to the rational use of hay and prevent it from entering the floor. This photo shows a diagram of facing feeders for goats, which can also be made independently.
Such a container can be used for any kinds of feed, both hay and solid and concentrated. In order to eat, the goat squints through the hole. By the way, this is the "window" does not allow the goat to throw out the feed outside. Also, the adult goat will not be able to jump into the middle of the feeders. Only the sharp goat can penetrate inside. So that this does not happen, you can additionally make a lid or grille. For the lid, the usual old wooden door is suitable. To make such a trough, you need to build two front panels from wooden boards, and then bore them with side boards. A sheet of thin iron is filling on the floor. If possible, the lower part of the feeder (bars) must be made of solid wood - oak or larch. Optionally, the distance between the windows can be done less, but then the feeder can be used inefficiently. The more the farmer contains goats, the greater the number of holes need to be done in the design. For one reception, the goat may have to eat and no longer approach the trough all day.
The design of such a feeder allows you to install it in a closed room or to endure on the street. By the way, as the breeders say, in the fresh air, goats have a good appetite, they eat almost entire food.
What are the feeders for goats, you can look at this video:
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