This is our newest project, a small barn for milking and handling goats. It's 8ft x 12ft, divided into a 5ft x 8ft milking area and a 7ft x 8ft holding pen. It's built out of mostly recycled materials, with the exception of the back posts, the rafters and the wall purlins. The metal posts are recycled oilfield junk, the tin recycled (probably not for the first time) from an old barn and the gates from bits and pieces of old livestock panels, rebar and even the ribs from an old pop-up travel trailer. There are 3 gates - one into the milking area, one into the holding pen and one in between the two. All 3 swing both ways. Our milking stanchion and the dividing fence between the two pens were made out of an old metal bunk bed found in the dump.
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