Dirt Floor In Goat Barn

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

Dirt floor in goat barn.

The floor is dirt and the previous owners put mats for the horses and then hay on top of the mats. In the winter we deep pile straw and clean it out in the spring. Hello and thank you for all this information. Soil sand or clay.

The barn smells good and the wood floors are easy on the feet. I definately wouldn t use concrete unless you went with rubber mats. 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. Here s a look at the types of flooring found in horse s stables.

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. 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 am trying to convert a horse barn with stalls to a goat barn.

Try that on dirt floors. It just scrapes right up. If i didn t know better i d swear the animals are out there at night with super glue gluing it to the dirt. Since the weather was semi decent today i decided to clean out the barn.

My goat barn is a dirt floor. I had wooden floors in my little field shelters and found they were impossible to keep clean. 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. But concrete also goes an incredible long ways for hood health.

Good drainage is the important part. It makes cleaning very easy plus the dirt absorbs all the pee. I tore the floors out and just put the shelters on the dirt.