Dirt Floor In Goat Barn

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

Dirt floor in goat barn.

I had wooden floors in my little field shelters and found they were impossible to keep clean. I am trying to convert a horse barn with stalls to a goat barn. The barn smells good and the wood floors are easy on the feet. Hello and thank you for all this information.

If i didn t know better i d swear the animals are out there at night with super glue gluing it to the dirt. 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. The floor is dirt and the previous owners put mats for the horses and then hay on top of the mats.

Lidingo wikimedia commons cc by sa 3 0. Soil sand or clay. I have a dirt floor in the goat barn and i love it. In the winter we deep pile straw and clean it out in the spring.

Here s a look at the types of flooring found in horse s stables. It makes cleaning very easy plus the dirt absorbs all the pee. Good drainage is the important part. My goat barn is a dirt floor.

But concrete also goes an incredible long ways for hood health. 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. So i am wondering if ishould keep or remove the mats for my goats thank you for your time. 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.

I tore the floors out and just put the shelters on the dirt. It just scrapes right up. Since the weather was semi decent today i decided to clean out the barn.