How Should I Build a Baby Goat's Stall?

Determine where you want to house your kids. If you have a barn or shed for goats, make sure that the stall for the kids is placed at the rear of the shelter, well away from the entrance and free from drafts.

Line the floor of the stall area with wooden pallets or gravel on top of dirt. This helps promote a cleaner stall, since urine will fall underneath the pallets or drain through the gravel, keeping bedding dry.

Use wood for the stall enclosure that is free from rough edges, as kids and goats like to chew on splintered wood. If they begin chewing, they will continue to chew until the area is destroyed. A better choice would be 20-gauge steel tube pen material attached to the back wall of the stall area with wall brackets and screws.

Provide some elevated platforms in the kid stall for climbing and resting.

Enclose the kid’s stall with a gate. Attach the gate to the wall of the shed so that it latches at the stall enclosure. Use a 20-gauge steel gate.

Cut a hole in the stall wall large enough for the kids to go outside into the goat pen but small enough to keep out any drafts.

Include a patio area outside the hole in the wall so that the kids can be outside but still be sheltered from rain in the goat pen. Use corrugated tin roofing sheets attached at an angle to the side of the goat barn or shed so that the rain will drain away from the goat pen.