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Building And Planning Resources: Plans Section  

Plans are in PDF format and are displayed in Adobe Reader.   If you do not have Adobe reader, you can get a free download at  http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.  

 

Some of the plans are full of photographs and may take a while to load.  If you are using a dial-up internet service it can take up to half an hour to download a PDF with lots of pictures in it.   If you use a fast internet service, but the plans do not pop up on the screen when you click the link, see if there is an Adobe Reader box (usually orange) in your taskbar at the bottom of the page.  

Just click on that box and they will come on the screen.

Plans from other sources

100 goat dairy facility  

 

You can order this plan from 

http://www.cps.gov.on.ca/english/plans/E8000/8211/Q-8211L.pdf

Goat stand, parlor, cheese plant, milking house/milking parlor, buck yard

 

Stand

http://www.lsuagcenter.com/en/our_offices/departments/Biological_Ag_

Engineering/Features/Building_Plans/small_animal/goat/Goat+Milking+StandMetal.htm

 

4 goat Herringbone parlor/cheese plant http://www.lsuagcenter.com/en/our_offices/departments/Biological_Ag_Engineering/Features/

Building_Plans/small_animal/goat/4+Goat+Herringbone+Dairy+ParlorCheese+Plant.htm

 

10 goat milking house and milking parlor

http://www.lsuagcenter.com/en/our_offices/departments/Biological_Ag_Engineering/Features/

Building_Plans/small_animal/goat/Milking+Barn++Milkhouse+for+10+goats.htm

 

Buck goat yard

http://www.lsuagcenter.com/en/our_offices/departments/Biological_Ag_Engineering/Features/

Building_Plans/small_animal/goat/Buck+Goat+Yard.htm

Goat Housing and Equipment    

 

www.abe.psu.edu/extension/ip/IP728-26.pdf

Goat Milking stand (wood)

 

 

http://www.motherearthnews.com/Livestock-and-Farming/1980-01-01/

A-Goat-Milking-Stand.aspx

Hoop House (shelters made with cattle panel

 

Hoop house shelter for goats (PDF)

 

http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/PDF/poulthous.pdf

 

http://www.apppa.org/mhpen.pdf

 

Hoop Houses (shelters made with PVC pipe) 

 http://www.hightunnels.org/ForGrowers/SitePlanning&Construction/

Articles/CareyHow-toBuild.htm

 

http://westsidegardener.com/howto/hoophouse.html

 

Instructions for using a "deck chair" or treatment sling 

 

The sling allows you to lay an adult animal on it's back for castration, hoof trimming etc. Excellent clear pictures.  http://www.premier1supplies.com/img/instruction/9.pdf

Make a simple hand milker for under $10 

 

 (To get this article you will have to buy a back issue of magazine.  Go to: www.dairygoatjournal.com and ask for Dairy Goat Journal, Vol. 85 No. 4, July/August 2007.  The article begins at page 33.  You might also be able to interlibrary loan the article through your public library.) 

Photographs of one farmer's milking parlor and lots 

 

Keith Morgan-Davies Windhaven Farm http://www.dsana.org/virtual_farm_tours/windhaven/index.html

Photos of housing (3 sided shed) , feed bunks, mineral feeders, and setup for pasture-raised meat goats 

 

From SIPAC project at Purdue University, with University of Kentucky assisting.  Shows feeders, movable shade shelters, mineral feeders, fencing and all costs associated with setting it up in 2004.  Other sections of this site have startup costs, parasite control, and a lot of very good, practical information on grazing and goats.   http://www.ansc.purdue.edu/meatgoat/About%20the%20Project.htm

 

PVC Feeder-2 types      

 

http://www.boergoats.com/clean/articles/construction/grain-mineralfeeders.htm

Round bale feeder plan (for sale)

http://www.agf.gov.bc.ca/resmgmt/publist/Leaflets/Sheep/352-20.pdf.

 

Sheep and Goat Housing [in tropical climates]

 

http://www.fao.org/docrep/S1250E/S1250E17.htm#Sheep%20and%20goat%20housing

(This is a chapter from Farm structures in tropical climates, 

A Textbook for Structural Engineering and Design, 

FAO/SIDA Cooperative Programme. Rural Structures In East And 

South-East Africa, Food And Agriculture Organization Of The 

United Nations, Rome, 1988.  Accessed 1-12-08 at  http://www.fao.org/docrep/S1250E/S1250E00.htm#Contents and http://www.fao.org/docrep/S1250E/S1250E17.htm#Sheep%20and%20goat%20housing)

 

Single goat milking or treatment stand    http://www.fiascofarm.com/goats/milkstand.html

Tobacco Barn Renovation for goats

 

Slide Show: http://www.uky.edu/Ag/AnimalSciences/goats/presentations/barnrenov04web2_files/frame.htm

 

Written Comments: http://www.uky.edu/Ag/AnimalSciences/goats/presentations/barnrenovdescrip04web.pdf

 

Walk-through double-sided feeders for goats   

http://www.premier1supplies.com/img/instruction/128.pdf

(click pictures to see larger view of these feeders)

   

     

 

Premier 1 Single                 Premier 1 Double 

 

NOTE: There may also be plans in the Producer Tips section of this website.

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