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- January 22, 2012 at 9:41 pm #43407
menageriehill
ParticipantQuestion #1 My donkey and goats share the same area. What can I use for bedding that the goats and Donkey wont eat up?
Question #2 Being raised around horses, we always wanted our barns to have something on the inside of the walls to keep an occasional kick, from going thru the wall and causing injury to the animal. that said, and the price of plywoodgoing thru the roof, what do you think about using livestock pannel?
Question #3 I wood like to have a “neat,oldtimey, latch on the passage door into my barn. Does any one want to share what their door looks like? any pics?
Thanks in advance,
Ken in ArkansasJanuary 23, 2012 at 9:26 pm #71601Baystatetom
ParticipantI just read a couple books by Eric Sloan called American Barns and Covered Bridges, and a Reverence For Wood. He has a lot of sketches of old barn doors. I am not a real reader and I couldn’t put those books down.
~TomJanuary 23, 2012 at 11:45 pm #71600mink
Participantprobably the only bedding they wouldnt eat would be sawdust. as to the cattle panels i wouldnt use them id try 2 inch lumber on the side of the stall if your horse wants to kick the wall. i got a fancy door holder …. a marker post from the roadside:p
January 24, 2012 at 2:14 am #71602ParticipantThats a good idea, Mink as a door holder. Probably easy to adapt to. I have used them for fence posts myself.
January 25, 2012 at 7:24 pm #71599Robert MoonShadow
ParticipantI’d fear using the cattle panels…might get a hoof caught in them, with no one around to help…although my donkeys (as most seem to be) are more likely to not panic and just start braying for help…
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