Doe Port Update Part 2...

The ladies in waiting were getting tired of waiting.....

 Farrah was the first to kid.....this beautiful little brown doeling...

 Then Holly gave us an early morning surprise with this little doe....

 And Genesis topped it off with delivering the FIRST EVER on our homestead....triplet BUCKS!

Time to get some stalls up!  The whole idea of this doe barn was to give the does an open air barn for shelter during the hot months, and allow us to put up temporary stalls during kidding.  We cut all of the walls and doors from cattle panels. 

A wooden pallet across part of the front gives a bit more privacy for the doe.   These are permenant structures, but the walls and doors are easily removed and stored when not in use.

 A piece of plywood hung in the stall acts as a draft guard, protecting newborns from a chill...

 I used pipe strapping....for hanging pipe....to hold the panels in place and to act as gate hinges...

 Cut into strips, then folded in half and you have some quick and easy gate hinges for pennies.

 Here are some of the completed stalls.  The barn has a small hay/feed room, then 6 stalls.

 Plenty of room for mom and kid(s) to get aquainted for a few days before going out with the rest of the herd....

 And these stalls filled up quickly!

 Plus there's still a nice alley way....

 We have put a hay manger on that red wall to the right....made it from an old futon frame.  That back corner is the hay/feed room, so I can go in there and fill the manger from the other side without getting trampled.

It cost about $2200, and took about 8 weeks to build it (took that long mainly because we were buying materials as we could afford them).  I still have a few finishing touches to do....like tying down the rope lights and painting that back wall.  Eventually the side wall plywood will be replaced with the same tongue and groove boards that we used on the back wall....but substituting plywood saved us over $400 and allowed us to get it finished earlier.