Shortening the Barn Completion Checklist

The to-do list to finish the goat barn is gradually growing shorter. Progress is somewhat random, depending on weather and resource availability.

The second Dutch door is done.

The first one was the front entry to the milking room, this one is to where the goats will live.

The windows in the hayloft help a lot for light, but I wanted a light for winter evenings when it gets light so early.

The solar light pictured above is a smaller version of the one that’s in my current milking room. It has only one brightness setting instead of three, which is fine for the purpose.

You can also see the roof flashing in the above photo. That’s another project Dan’s been working on when it isn’t raining.

Before we move the goats in we needed to fence the barn entryway.

For this we used goat and sheep stock panels, like we did for the hay feeder. They are higher in price than cattle panels, but the openings are smaller to keep baby goats in. That’s a necessity!

In the milking and feed room I now have a workbench!

Shelves will go to the right.

Even with good progress the checklist of things to finish still seems endless, There are so many little things on the list, but they all take time! Even so, we are slowly getting closer to goat-moving-in day.