Dirt Floor In Goat Barn

Try that on dirt floors.

Dirt floor in goat barn.

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 floor is dirt and the previous owners put mats for the horses and then hay on top of the mats. I definately wouldn t use concrete unless you went with rubber mats. Lidingo wikimedia commons cc by sa 3 0.

We have dirt floors and use straw for bedding. Soil sand or clay. Good drainage is the important part. So i am wondering if ishould keep or remove the mats for my goats thank you for your time.

But concrete also goes an incredible long ways for hood health. 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. I scoop out manure daily but i still had to deal with urine soaked straw stuck to the floor.

If i didn t know better i d swear the animals are out there at night with super glue gluing it to the dirt. My goat barn is a dirt floor. Hello and thank you for all this information. In the winter we deep pile straw and clean it out in the spring.

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 had wooden floors in my little field shelters and found they were impossible to keep clean. I have a dirt floor in the goat barn and i love it. The barn smells good and the wood floors are easy on the feet.

It just scrapes right up. I tore the floors out and just put the shelters on the dirt. 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.