Introducing Goats to Our Alaskan Homestead | Building a Goat Pen
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- We know they are cute, but wait! There's more! We added 6 goats to our homestead. In this video, we also built our temporary goat pen and turned our generator shed into their barn.
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Katie & Chris
I'm very glad that someone finally added goats to their homestead. Now you have to get a big bell for its neck for the leader of the pack..
Flat Tire Farm has goats.
The big bell would be interesting 🙂
@@northtoalaska2022 the bell lets you track where the goats are and scare off predators!!!
Please don't add bells to your animals. It drives them mad and you too. It is so UNNATURAL to the animals, their environment, and to you as humans. It is a terrible impediment to add to the animals lives.
Get a LGD to protect them from wild animals/birds attacks and keep them mustered.
Things I learnt having goats. Never get between a goat and its feed. 2. Respect its standing in the mod. 3. they are good at cleaning up paddocks. best of luck with your goats they are loveable.
Thank you for the tips and good luck wishes!
Your goats would love some fresh pine branches and the outside slabs from your saw mill
They have been getting fresh branches daily from the spruce trees!
Let the never ending fence building and repairs begin!!! 😂
Possibly!
You are so blessed to have that skid steer. Could you imagine how hard it would be to do what you do without it . Because I watch several channels and nine out of 10 homesteaders do not have one ….. Tiny Houston MS ( Len Price )
That last goat screaming with it's 👅 sticking out gave me a good chuckle. I can never not find it funny when they sound like they're human screaming
Haha, the fainting goats are the best for that! That little doe that is screaming in the video is quite obnoxious with her noises 😅
Goats 🐐 how fun for you guys. They definitely are entertaining 😊 Flat tire farm has goats & they are in Alaska also, love watching them goats ...lol
Milk Goats seem to be a popular choice here in Alaska. 🙂❤️
Level is horizontal, plumb is vertical, hi, just found Y’all, love it! Gonna binge all Your videos now!
Welcome! Hope you enjoy the videos 🙂
They are all really cute, it's crazy the other male gets put down instead of getting its own family.
They are so cute 🙂
Nice goats, ad i am convinced they will do well!
Cool goats! Don’t touch the beard!😂😂
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CUTE! You will make them happy if you cut some pine branches off the bottom of your big pines (or any pines you want taken out) And throw in their outdoor run. Such a treat, and maybe help with mud season. You have your hands full.
They love the spruce tree branches! They have been getting a few each day 🙂
Great repurpose of the shed. May want to look into wedge-loc for the t-post corners… if you’re interested. Living Traditions did an episode on them. Title of that episode is “EASIEST Corner Post Solution for Farm Animal Fencing! Wedge-Loc Makes It Possible.”
Thanks for the suggestion!
I have been trying as a single woman to pull my fence taunt. Longgggggg story that just shortened to finished. I would have never thought about 2x4's THANK YOU!
Glad to share 🙂
Thank you for sharing your springtime journey on the homestead! Step-by-step! God bless!
You are welcome 😊
There are several Utub people that use electric fences. Then you can change them every week and give them new grazing. They will also tell you how too train them to the fence. It’s easy prey.
I’m loving your work ethics and planning for future. Stay safe🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
We plan to use electric fences for new pasture areas in the future. Seems like a great way to give them access to new grazing!
Thank you!
Groovy video😎 Goats are so fun to watch🐐😍
Springtime! How are your seedlings? Can hardly wait for upcoming videos!
You two are doing great💖
Thank you!❤️ The seedlings are doing great! Can't wait for it to warm up and get them planted!
Great job building the fence for the goats
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I could only imagine the attention you would have given with the paint of all of the dogs on the side of the RV on your trip. Much better painted black. You guys done an absolutely wonderful job on the inside of the RV. How many miles were on the RV when you got it? You probably said but I might of missed that.
chuckles... as you are working on clearing for the pen to be built, I'm thinking that it's an area that only pigs could love. It's so muddy.
I had the same thoughts about it being a pig pen haha, unfortunately, the dirt is like that here until the frost thaws out to release all the trapped surface water from melted snow. Never seen anything like it where we used to live.
What a fun video. Great new additions to your homestead. Thanks for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed the video 🙂
One goat already found a escape spot, goats are very Smart.......building your pen you have to find big rocks for climbing up on. They like to climb..,
Ahh yes they need some play area!
Make sure you build the fence like prison
How I know
I had 500 does plus 35 bucks plus lots of kids
Put electric fence on the inside of mesh fence with 2*2 inch square or 2*4 inch fence
Mark the electric fence with some ribbon do they learn not to cross the fence once they get jabbed
Get the fence charger with maximum Jules of jab power ( 6 joules is minimum I will go with )
Put some swings using electric wire spools
You got your hands full of kids but they do great landscaping job for you
Enjoy them butting each other and yes train your dogs with them early on
I was waiting for some time to see new videos of you and even checked if TH-cam unsubscribe me .
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Improvements every day. Good to see the goats! Food and milk for the table.
Absolutely! 😀
Once your pen is up plant some pasture grass and alfalfa!!!!
Watching the video reminded me of the years living up north with all the mud in the spring. I do not miss that! The pen looks great!
Thank you 🙂
One of my favorite Alaskan Couples! 😁👍🏼
Goats are a good livestock animal to have .
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Great video
Thanks! 🙂
Awe the baby goats are so cute🐐
They are!
Your nail gun sounds like a old school camera 📷
It does! I was thinking the same thing while watching the edited video. 🙂
We raised goats for many years. We ran about 65 head on 80 acres of mostly woods. They are a lot of fun but also a lot of trouble. I miss having them around 😢.
Wow, nice! You are spot on, these goats have been entertaining and full of trouble at the same time haha... they find many interesting ways to get stuck in places they should not stick their heads. We had to patch a few spots they found to get stuck in the shed structure
Thank you so much for sharing, adorable goats. I couldn't stop smiling the whole time. You've made my day. 😊😊😊😊
I'm glad we could make your day! They certainly are adorable 🐐 😀
Wow, 2 adults playing with grown-up toys and playing in the mud, it's as good as jumping in puddles and spraying water in good fun. I'm just kidding 😂. Love the goats. My cousin has a dairy farm or was and runs goats as well, his idea of mowing the grass around the farmhouse. 😂. Good job, Kate and Chris.
Haha! They do make great lawnmowers 🙂
Haha I LOVE goats! We have had goats for 20+ years and enjoy them so much. Their personalities are hilarious and they are very tasty as well 😊! Thanks for the video and glad your getting closer to spring. Can’t wait to see the house continue up!
Nice, they have been a joy so far. Never a dull moment with them. Glad you enjoyed the video 🙂
Them goats are to cute
They are!
Haven't see you for quite some time bat always enjoy your events
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umm the water spring needs more air time it looked so refreshing !!! the goats are fantastic i never knew they eat tree bark like that my god. also thank you so much for the video always enjoy them
Haha! Glad you enjoyed the video 🙂
grew up on a game farm with big animals, ostrich, emu, lamas, deer, lion, never put the fence on the outside no matter what
A closing door for predators and cold weather.
That is on our agenda 🙂
Hi I’m new to your channel just happen to find it in my line up and thought I’d take a listen. I love AK and live watching five other Alaska channels who are new to AK and building a home, I find this fascinating to watch y’all build , do canning ,prepping all off grid and from different parts of the US. If I were younger I would too! God bless y’all on your journey to your new and exciting life! I’ll be watching!😊
Hello and welcome, glad you found us 🙂 thank you and God bless!
Милые козлята! Хорошая покупка! Отличный сарай! Классное видео получилось! Мне понравилось! Круто Круто!!!👍❤️
Thank you! They certainly are adorable! 🐐
Your goats are so cute
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Great video today, always like seeing additions to the homestead. The little kid was so cute. Thanks for sharing
Glad you enjoyed the video! Thanks 🙂
Oh My Goodness what a surprise❗ The Baby that keeps neigh-neigh is so cute....I hope all works out with them. I have heard they can be 'a handful (to say it mildly) Probably keep you hoppin'‼
I'm sure they will keep us busy! They are mischievous little animals 🙂
Put logs outside the fence and staple them on inside
Congratulations on expanding your homestead and giving Katie some more animals to spoil,. Very glad to see you have posted this video. I think you guys did an excellent job ensuring the Goat's have a good place to be, although I do worry about predators entering the shelter through that "Goat Hole" but I am confident you will rectify that in short order.
Thanks Chuck 🙂, they are certainly already becoming spoiled 😅 They will have a nice door and electric fence strand to help keep them safe. We will share it in another video!
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Love all your goats first of many animals Best Wishes from ENGLAND
Thank you! 😀
setup a poll for when everyone thinks the goats will kick over the bucket (not kick the bucket).
12 days and counting 🙂
Man I love that monster rig on tracks you guys have awesome 👍😀
We found those tracks on the Facebook marketplace used while searching for an older snowmachine last November. They were a great buy, made it easy to haul our water all winter in deep snow without the need for another machine.
You could watch Lumnah Acres he just built fences and corner posts out of the same post you guys used. The goats are adorable.
Thanks for sharing!
Get goats they said, it’ll be fun😂. Goats are TH-cam gold. We have 19, Alpines and Boers. Looking forward to the next installment
Haha, they are a joy so far! Wish we had them sooner! I have watched some of your goat videos, yours are a great meat breed correct? I have never had goat for dinner but we do plan to possibly butcher the buckling once grown. We got a great price on them but had to take the entire herd together as a package deal, not sure we want two bucks. We mainly want them for milk, luckily one doe is productive now.
@@northtoalaska2022 our Boer goats are for meat, it’s amazing by the way. Our Alpine’s are for milk. Currently we are milking 3 , 2 Alpines and a Saneen. We get a gallon and a quart a day. If you’re interested in making butter you’ll need a cream separator. Goats milk is homogenized naturally, cream doesn’t separate like a cow. I just published a video on our new to us milking machine if you’re interested in building one.
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Great fun . Goats are such cute animals 🇨🇦
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You guys will eventually need to put larger gravel or concrete down to prevent it from getting muddy like that each spring.
Great to see you guys doing great the goats 🐐 ate Grrst love the video I’ll be so glad when I get back to work in Alaska anyway we ish the best great work
Hey Jason, glad you enjoyed the video. Hope you are doing well!
They are the cutest goats ❤️🔥
Thank you!
I’m loving your work ethics and planning for future. Stay safe🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
Thank you! 😀
Hey hey, good to see you back!
Any plans for drainage under your roads or is it not even worth bothering with the perma-frost? Wondering if a few well placed French drains could move the needle on reducing the mud haha
Hey Tyler, luckily with us living a good half-day drive below the Arctic Circle we do not have any permafrost. We did find chunks of frost in the middle of June last year in areas where the sun doesn't shine but I believe it is all thawed by July. The driveway has held up great, we do have drainage ditching on both sides, I will have to get a video of it to share in a later vlog. The big issue we have seen here in south central Alaska is that in spring when the five feet of snow melts, the frost in the ground will not allow the water to drain down into the earth. All of the snow melts fast and kind of sets on the top layer of thawed soil and can not drain until the frost breaks up. Hopefully, this helps explain what we experience here.
Yay another video! And those goats are so cute!
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Nice looking fence install. Feel for you guys working through a thaw.
Thanks!
Billy needs be in his own pin..
Thank you very much for posting video me and my wife Christine we were worried about you both please take of each other stay warm
Thank you! Please don't worry about us 🙂 we are all good and happy here! Spring is finally here and it's warming up outside a little bit.
Another great video
Thank you!
Very cute! Nothing like mud season, makes everything harder
That's for sure!
First! LETS GOOOOOOOO 😂
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Cute goats! That was interesting watching you prepare that old building and build that fence in the mud. Talk about mud season!
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Build them some things to climb up on and things to play with
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Love baby animals.. Hi from Colorado Springs 😀
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Guardian dog for the goats
You gotta put it in a trough you know like what they used to feed cows so it’s not in a bowl put it in a long troth you can make it out of wood. You don’t have to buy it. You can make your own can spread it out. they can all eat, not try to eat out of a singular bowl.
We built a hay feeder the day after this video was made. We will share it in a later video 🙂
Feeder and water
Since you guys are in Alaska it may pay you to Lock the goats up at night. Because I know y’all have bear and possibly mountain lion and they will scale that fence and take a goat back over the fence. A friend of mine lives Mid Eastern USA and his goats started disappearing at Night and After the 2nd one disappeared he installed infrared night vision cameras watching his pasture. This was before cell phone 📱 camera to alert his phone in real time. But The 3rd Goat about 50 lbs was seen on his camera being gotten around the neck & choked out & carried back over a 6 foot high fence by a full grown Mt lion. After viewing the footage He went into the woods the next morning right where the cat had carried the goat he followed the drag marks in the leaves and found the goat covered up with leaves and missing one hind leg quarter. So the cat intended on coming back for the rest of its spoils. He started locking up his goats in the barn at night until he got him a couple of Donkeys to put in the pasture as Guardians of his goats. No more goats got gone once the donkeys was added to his pasture. You guys could add electric fence on outside to deter any predator from scaling your fence like you done to keep moose out of your garden. 😁👍🏼
A wee bit muddy. Cmon sun.
Sun and wind! Speed up the process 😅
Always put your fence on the inside cattle horses goats even hogs will stay in better
Yes, 🙂 we only went outside on corners.
I’ve raised goats for the better part of 25 years I’ll give ya a hint, yours may be different than mine but goats 🐐 will be goats . But all the ones I’ve raised was highly Contrary about not wanting to eat the Hay that laid on the ground. They’d eat all on top and leave the Hay on the ground for waste. So I had to build them a V shaped feeder on legs to put the Hay in the top of that they could eat through the side slats but that they still couldn’t climb up on. Even then they pulled hay out the Hay that fell to the ground from the Hay feeder as they pulled it out they wouldn’t eat what hit the ground. But it was a lot less wasted Hay in the V Hay feeder than me putting it on the ground and I also built a wooden grain trough to mount to the barn stall wall and designed it so they couldn’t climb on it & high enough off the floor they couldn’t poop in it. Because when I first installed the Grain Trough I had to raise it Above butthole level or the tallest goats would always back up to it and drop me loads of 💩All in it to have to clean out 😂. So the screws came out and I raised it higher than butt level. 😂 Also I had to make it narrow enough with like a roof and sides on it so the little ones couldn’t jump up in it. I designed it all about 5 feet long so all could eat at same time. I built it outta 1”x8” untreated wood with like the top shelf of a book case with 45° Angled down Top over it so the kids didn’t have enough room to jump in it and walk around. And if one some how jumped up on top they’d slide off because the top was angled 😆. Because if a goat can jump in, on, or climb on something they most certainly will. I know you’re just getting started and not got established yet and all that is yet to come. But i thought I’d give ya some ideas. One last thing In your small barn if it was me I’d build a Hay feeder wide at top to put Hay in and 45° it back to the wall with 2”x2” wood bars every 4-6 inches apart so they can stick their mouth in between the 2x2’s to get their Hay and it angled with a lid on it High enough off the ground they can’t jump up on top of it.
Goat milk 🥛 & cheese 🧀 is really good and many things can be made with goat milk like soap and goat milk lotion 🧴. Also the Boer breed of goat the meat is delicious also if you ever decide to raise some for meat 🥩 that’s the best breed for meat production. Good luck 👍🏼 and have fun with your new editions to the homestead.
Pallets out side in pin
Door for the goats where the hole in the wallis
Are the kid goats heavy enough that a Bald Eagle could not swoop in while they are out in the pen and fly away one of them? Have you started framing your cabin?
So far so good, eagles don't bother them.
Hook for water bucket
Just a guess a thought, but wouldn't it be a good idea to put light netting across the top. I don't know if an eagle might take a chance to snatch one.
I know goats will eat most brush but what are they good for? The milk and cheese I’ve tried is really bad. Takes a while to get the taste out of my mouth. That’s just me but there must be something I’m missing. What will you be doing with them? 🤔😊
Interestingly we have purchased raw cow milk from our old Amish neighbors that tasted off at times too. I believe it has a lot to do with the breed of animal, the cleanliness of the udders, and the freshness of the milk. Only one of our goats is in milk at this time but it tastes very similar to store-bought cow milk with a hint of hay taste. Maybe try a new supplier to see if it is better. The kid buckling we made a weather for either a companion to the breeding buck or to butcher him for meat. We plan to breed the does every year to sell the kids which will offset hay costs and keep them in milk for ourselves, possibly do a herd share with excess milk if we can create a more professional setup in the future. Or downsize until we have just enough milk for ourselves. The deal with these goats was they were all the price of one goat except we had to take the entire herd. We were only originally looking to get about three total.
Is there any chance seepage from yr outhouse could pollute the ground water of your goat pen? Ugly thought but something to think about.
The outhouse is downhill from the goats so technically the goats may pollute the outhouse but probably no more than we already do 🙂. Not too concerned, protecting the spring water is the priority.
Mud season
It's started! Snow will be melted by June hopefully 😅
Maybe 9 bails of hay 🤔 Soak up all that land
Now that all the frost is thawed out of the area the water can drain and it dried up fast. Unfortunately, hay and straw are around $28 per 50 lb bale here. Terrible buy considering we could get them for about $4 a bale on the East Coast.
Learn hoof care please
They sound like there getting killed funny
They don't like to be separated from the mommas that's for certain!
Be careful the bigger goats will lay on the smaller goats when it gets cold and crush them they're really bad about mothers crushing their babies when it's cold out cute goat store
Ahh yes
I don't know or understand what it is about goats and home steamers. Very Strange
What is hard to understand. Goats are very productive. You can get meat, milk, and shear their hair for clothing. Goats are also a lot easier to handle than large cattle and hogs.
This off grid life has a bunch of goats and they walk them with their dogs in the woods. They don’t stray and come when called.
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Not sure what the mystery is to you. Goats and chickens are the 2 easiest animals/birds to raise and for folks to use their produce from; either for their own use or to barter with . It's simply commonsense to start out small, with small animals when beginning.