The original goat shelter worked OK as it was ... but unfortunately, it quickly became draughty when the fence palings shrank when exposed to the weather. To fix this, I wrapped the shelter with an unused nylon tarpaulin and nailed some more palings around the edges (so that little goats couldn’t easily get to the tarp).
This has now made the shelter very weather proof. The shelter was also moved so that it faced north-east and it is now protected by a very large wattle tree.
Happy goats indeed!
My lovely wife picked up a couple of sections of a discarded picket fence, with the idea that this would protect our lovely little sugar gum sapling that shares the field with the goatlings. I diligently cut the picket fence into three sections and bound it together around the sapling so that little goat teeth couldn’t get to it. O contraire! The little servants of evil knocked the fence over and had a jolly good time reducing the sugar gum to a sugar twig. With the picket fence re-erected and reinforced, we are hoping that there is still enough life left in the root stock and young cambium material left to photosynthesize.
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