Dirt Floor In Goat Barn

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Dirt floor in goat barn.

I have a dirt floor in the goat barn and i love it. The floor is dirt and the previous owners put mats for the horses and then hay on top of the mats. It just scrapes right up. The type of floor you will choose for a new barn will depend on the existing natural soil what materials are available to you and your budget.

I worked at a farm that had concrete floors in the goat barn and even with heavy bedding the owner also owned a lumber mill so bedding was free and plentiful some of the goats developed foot and leg issues. Good drainage is the important part. Try that on dirt floors. The downside i just had to put about 2 of crushed rock in their pen and cover it back up with dirt because there was poor irregation and the inside of their pen was completely saturated with stuff.

But concrete also goes an incredible long ways for hood health. I definately wouldn t use concrete unless you went with rubber mats. Hello and thank you for all this information. I had wooden floors in my little field shelters and found they were impossible to keep clean.

We have dirt floors and use straw for bedding. I scoop out manure daily but i still had to deal with urine soaked straw stuck to the floor. My goat barn is a dirt floor. Lidingo wikimedia commons cc by sa 3 0.

I am trying to convert a horse barn with stalls to a goat barn. I tore the floors out and just put the shelters on the dirt. In the winter we deep pile straw and clean it out in the spring. It makes cleaning very easy plus the dirt absorbs all the pee.

Here s a look at the types of flooring found in horse s stables. But my barn is also a through barn design so cleanout just means a trip or two down each side with my tractor and the manure is gone. If i didn t know better i d swear the animals are out there at night with super glue gluing it to the dirt.