Dirt Floor In Goat Barn

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.

Dirt floor in goat barn.

Hello and thank you for all this information. We have dirt floors and use straw for bedding. I tore the floors out and just put the shelters on the dirt. In the winter we deep pile straw and clean it out in the spring.

So i am wondering if ishould keep or remove the mats for my goats thank you for your time. Since the weather was semi decent today i decided to clean out the barn. I had wooden floors in my little field shelters and found they were impossible to keep clean. I scoop out manure daily but i still had to deal with urine soaked straw stuck to the floor.

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. Soil sand or clay. Try that on dirt floors. 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. I have a dirt floor in the goat barn and i love it. I definately wouldn t use concrete unless you went with rubber mats. It just scrapes right up.

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. The floor is dirt and the previous owners put mats for the horses and then hay on top of the mats. It makes cleaning very easy plus the dirt absorbs all the pee.

If i didn t know better i d swear the animals are out there at night with super glue gluing it to the dirt. The barn smells good and the wood floors are easy on the feet. Here s a look at the types of flooring found in horse s stables.