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Should I keep Meat Birds and Mini Goats together?

 
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Hi Permies!

I would absolutely adore some feedback from you!

I would like to keep my meat birds ( Mitral Gris ) in the same enclosure as two young mini goats. I'm a little worried about the chickens being stepped on my the goats and getting injured and keeping the goats out of the chicken feed. There would be 60 chickens and 2 mini goats in a 1/2 acre. The mini goats would also be moved to other areas and would only me there during the day.

Do you have any concerns, comments, or recommendations?


 
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I have some free range chickens, and they seem to follow my goats around a lot, and I haven't seen them being stepped on.

The only real issue I can see is keeping the chicken feed away from the goats, but some clever designing could solve that.
 
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