My goats choose to sleep in this barn, we provided them with a sleeping barn that had 4 walls, but they turned up their noses at it. This is what we call the 3 sided barn, or feed barn. The grain bowls and hay feeder are in here, and the back side is the hay room. As they chose to sleep here no matter what we did, we built them a bedroom!
This is Lillith, entering the sleep stall. They appreciate it very much, we built it on a day that was -20 and windy with blowing snow. Its very sturdy, 1/2 " plyboard on a 2x4 frame and cement nailed to the floor and screwed to the wall.
I think they stay in this barn just in case the hay room magically opens one day... No seriously, I think they love it because its sunny and they want to sleep in the same place their food is. The barn has a northern and eastern wall which is where the wind comes from so they are well sheltered in here, all the same the stall seemed best earlier in the winter when just stepping outside made our insides feel frozen!
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