Feeding Frenzy

This feeder has been working rather well for us for the past few months now. Our first attempt was put in the back pasture. And while it is great for full size goats, my (less than one year old) bucks like to sleep in it and poop in it and that does not work out to sanitary feeders!

I've made the girl's feeder a bit smaller both in height and space between vertical rungs. For the life of me I cannot find the site I used as a prototype, not that it matters because mine has been changed quite a bit.

I had some treated 4x4's laying around in 4 foot increments, used those as the legs so the feeder wouldn't have to be put up on blocks which would prevent moisture wicking.
Because I didn't have to purchase the 4x4's, this only cost $12.00, perhaps less as I didn't have to use all the 2x4's I bought. oh and the bottom of the original design had slats for the "floor" of the feeder. We used plywood and unless you have a scrap sitting around, that'll cost a bit but if you make a few feeders, the cost will be distributed. We ended up ripping the 2x4's we had to make the vertical slats. The original called for 2x4 verticals and that, to me, was overkill.

It has been so long since we made this that I can't recall exactly the measurements but that's not so important really.

The original was used to hold whole bales. I don't use whole bales, I feed twice daily.

If I'm so inclined maybe someday I'll write a materials list. Wish I would have done it when I built it since I cannot even remember now what we used. The little girls (Molly and Granite) and one of my yearling does (Freedoe) can get into the feeder and do when the big girls are being greedy but I can easily get 7 does around this feeder without a problem.

BUT, if you're handy and a visual learner + can improvise a bit, you can probably make it just as we did, by just sittin' down and doin' it.