keeping goatlings and chickens apart

Hello to everybody. This is our annual springtime headache - there inevitable comes the time when the newly born goatlings find opening into chicken area and start mayhem amids our poultry. Thus a jackpot question goes: Has any of you solved this riddle of how to let chicken in and out of their sleeping and hatching area while preventing goatlings? We could think only of blocking the opening in fence thus forcing chicken to jump/fly over. And this not all hens can do. So we helplessly watch the casualties and pray the goatlings are big enough not to fit in any more.
By the way very similar riddle goes with donkeys and goats - how to prevent goats entering donkey area and not preventing donkeys leave it at the same time. Any ideas welcome.

Hi Vlad,  I added your post to the Chickens forum and to the Goats, Sheep LLamas forum.  This might get you more views.

Thank you. I'll be more careful next time...

vlad lacko wrote:Thank you. I'll be more careful next time...

No worries, Vlad, I think most of us have done it.  There's a boatload of sub-forums here, so just pick the one that you want to post in, go to that forum, then post.  

Are the chickens getting hurt by the goat kids?

Our goats and chickens share 1/2 the barn. The other half is goat free, we keep the hay and the chicken feed on the goat free side. We used a cattle panel to divide it, and then put a ramp of roosts on the chicken side. leading over the panel. The chickens quickly figured out how to get over to the goat side, and hunger/returning to roost let them figure out how to fly over the 50 inch cattle panel back to "their" side...  The goats can't make it over to the chicken side.

to Timothy: Once they had bothered our elderly rooster to death, but mainly it is about egg production drop due to disturbance and feed theft.

We have the same thing. The smaller kid goats getting into the chicken coop. We had to put extra boards around the chicken coop entrance to keep the goats out and let the chickens move freely from pasture to coop. It's certainly a unique challenge. The kids are so curious...