Hi, we are buying 12 acres in Upstate NY, would like to bulid a barn for dairy goats! starting small w/2 does then up to ? for cheeze, butter, and soap, want to do so in a 1 1/2 time frame, will also board some horses for awhile. Any ideas!! thank you all rae

-- rae poli (poliriva@yahoo.com), October 03, 2001

Answers

Hi, Rae, welcome to Upstate NY! :) One thought that occurred to me is, depending on how fast your goat herd grows and how long you intend to board horses, is to turn the horse area into a milk room after the horses are gone and the dairy is good sized. It would save you some building if you double purposed the horse area.

-- Jennifer L. (Northern NYS) (jlance@nospammail.com), October 03, 2001.

Here is the url for the ND extension. They have TONS of free plans in .pdf format to download. http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/abeng/plans/index.htm

-- Joyce Dingman (friendspatterns@juno.com), October 03, 2001.

Thank you for your help, we are hoping for a herd of 20 to 30 does after sometime. any other input will be great !!

-- rae poli (poliriva@yahoo.com), October 05, 2001.