Dirt Floor In Goat Barn

I definately wouldn t use concrete unless you went with rubber mats.

Dirt floor in goat barn.

Try that on dirt floors. 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. Here s a look at the types of flooring found in horse s stables.

I tore the floors out and just put the shelters on the dirt. We have dirt floors and use straw for bedding. My goat barn is a dirt floor. Good drainage is the important part.

I have a dirt floor in the goat barn and i love it. If i didn t know better i d swear the animals are out there at night with super glue gluing it to the dirt. Lidingo wikimedia commons cc by sa 3 0. 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.

The barn smells good and the wood floors are easy on the feet. Hello and thank you for all this information. It just scrapes right up. I had wooden floors in my little field shelters and found they were impossible to keep clean.

The floor is dirt and the previous owners put mats for the horses and then hay on top of the mats. Since the weather was semi decent today i decided to clean out the barn. But concrete also goes an incredible long ways for hood health. Soil sand or clay.

It makes cleaning very easy plus the dirt absorbs all the pee. In the winter we deep pile straw and clean it out in the spring. I scoop out manure daily but i still had to deal with urine soaked straw stuck to the floor.