Goats love to play, there is a reason we call baby goats kids! Keep your goats and your kids entertained with these pallet goat playhouse ideas. Start gathering pallets and build your goats their own pallet playhouse with these patterns that will cost you next to nothing to build.
Ever since we borrowed goats to mow down our overgrown garden, I've been excited to build the ultimate pallet playground and raise a few goats myself. The kids would love them and I really want to milk goats for dairy and soap products.
I've been inspired by my homesteading friends that have goats with all of the cool things they've built out of pallets to make their goat pen and playground. The ideas are endless, if you can get your hands on free pallets you're golden.
Check out all of the free building patterns for building everything your goat will need for the Ultimate Goat Pallet Playhouse!
GOAT PALLET PLAYHOUSE PROJECTS
Are you knew to raising goats too? Maybe you're not sure if you should have goats on your homestead.
Building a pallet playhouse is only one of the first steps in preparing for having goats on your homestead. Learn more about preparing to raise goats with our ultimate beginners guide.
Pallets are perfect for making every sort of structure you need for your playground. Find patterns below for building a goat bed, shelter, feeder, playground, fence and a milking stand.
If you have 4 goats that's approximately….25-50 pallets depending on your fence size, amounts of feeders, milking stands and how you create your playground.
WHERE CAN I FIND FREE PALLETS?
- Visit the Pet Supplies and Food Stores
- Make some Deals with Hardware and Furniture Equipment Stores
- Contact Newspaper Companies
- Be in Touch with Those Small Businesses
- New Shopping Malls or Stores Openings
- Check for Craigslist Listings
- Browse the Internet for Pallet Search
PALLET PLAYGROUND PATTERNS
Make a RAISED GOAT BED using a pallet.
Check out how to build these pallet GOAT SHELTER.
How to make a shelter out of pallets
Simple Living Country Gal shows us how to build a GOAT PLAYGROUND
Flip Flop Barnyard will show you how to make a pallet GOAT MILKING STAND.
How to make a pallet goat fence
OTHER GOAT TOYS FOR PLAYHOUSE
Teeter Toter with cement block and wood
Tether ball
Old tired stacked in a pyramid for climbing
Kids plastic pool
Vintage playground equipment and plastic toys
NECESSITIES FOR YOUR GOAT PLAYHOUSE
The big idea behind building a goat playhouse is to create the ultimate environment for your goats that will protect them from the weather, and provide a space for them to live and grow happily.
Make sure you have beds, hay feeders, mineral feeders, toys, climbing apparatuses and fencing to keep your goats confined.
More on goats in this post, Our Beginners Guide to Raising Goats
Honestly, for the most inspiring goat playhouses aren't made out of pallets. It's the goats on the roof at The Old Coombs Country Market just 30 minutes from our homestead. We grew up going their for ice cream and to see the goats on the roof. If you ever come my way, check it out!
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Comment below, tell me what you think!
Tasia says
Thank you for the mention of the pallet pen for animals. It’s a ton of fun to use things we already have especially for our curious goats 🙂
Diana says
That’s the best way to do things! Reduce reuse recycle 😉