We’ve already given you the tour of our main barn, but that barn is only for the female goats (does) and baby goats (kids).  We had to build two smaller barns for our bucks, dogs, chickens, and rabbits.

This is the buck/dog shed. The concrete walkway leading to it is now lined by the female goat pen. The overhang on this building houses several outside feeders* for our does. The inside of this shed has two small stalls, one for the bucks and one for the dogs (although most of the time they share the two).  It also has a small hay loft underneath the roof for holding several bales of hay (about 20).

This is the garden tool shed that also houses our chickens and rabbits.

The door opens into a hallway between the pens. The chickens are on the right, and the rabbits are on the left. Both overhangs are enclosed, so the chickens and rabbits can go outside, but they’re still still safely in a pen.

You can see the house to the right of this picture, and to the left of the building is one of our first garden beds.  This building is right next to the garden, so we can easily take our scraps and feed them to the rabbits and chickens. The rabbits then turn the food we give them into manure, which we put right back into the garden.

When we were building this property, we tried to make things as easy as possible to maintain. The chicken and rabbit shed was designed with that in mind, and so far it’s doing a great job!

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