Goats and the winter cold?

[Dave-Trinity-Farms]

Ok could only find a side shot of the kid/yearling shelter. Its 24'x12' with a 12/3 roof pitch, separated into 2, 12' shelters with a horse panel / feeder in the middle. We use this feeder when its raining outside during winter to keep the kids and yearlings dry. Otherwise you can see their feeder in the picture. Its what I call a fence feeder as it resembles a farm fence. This allows me to feed from outside of the pen without having to try and lift flakes over the fence and drop into a feeder. With the wind we get, the last thing you want to do is life a flake of hay at face height. Anyways, back to the shelter. I made it exactly this size to accommodate the typical number of animals we have in each pen and to give them 2/3s of a full 4th wall. Each side of the shelter as a slightly smaller then a 4x8 opening. This way I can use a sheet of OSB as a door. Either on hinges or as a slider. There are also small access doors on the outside back wall that we can open to fill up their loose mineral feeders.

As for the venting you can see the soffit vents there on the side. I also have a 16 inch opening along the entire front wall at the peak with removable clear corrugated siding. I close off all but a couple of feet of this opening during the winter and remove them during the summer for better ventilation. I do the same thing on the lean toos on the main barn. You can see them on the outer sides near the roof line. These also just unscrew during the summer and add to ventilation. I used the clear to of course provide some light.

OH! and if you look close you will see some 6 foot chainlink siding on the shelter. I do this first to keep them from eating the barn and second, they love to rub on chainlink to scratch themselves.

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