Dirt Floor In Goat Barn

I have a dirt floor in the goat barn and i love it.

Dirt floor in goat barn.

I tore the floors out and just put the shelters on the dirt. Since the weather was semi decent today i decided to clean out the barn. I am trying to convert a horse barn with stalls to a goat barn. Good drainage is the important part.

In the winter we deep pile straw and clean it out in the spring. But concrete also goes an incredible long ways for hood health. Here s a look at the types of flooring found in horse s stables. I had wooden floors in my little field shelters and found they were impossible to keep clean.

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. Soil sand or clay. Hello and thank you for all this information. It makes cleaning very easy plus the dirt absorbs all the pee.

Try that on dirt floors. 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. It just scrapes right up.

I definately wouldn t use concrete unless you went with rubber mats. The floor is dirt and the previous owners put mats for the horses and then hay on top of the mats. 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. 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. So i am wondering if ishould keep or remove the mats for my goats thank you for your time. I scoop out manure daily but i still had to deal with urine soaked straw stuck to the floor.