Dirt Floor In Goat Barn

So i am wondering if ishould keep or remove the mats for my goats thank you for your time.

Dirt floor in goat barn.

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. Hello and thank you for all this information. 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. 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. But concrete also goes an incredible long ways for hood health. I am trying to convert a horse barn with stalls to a goat barn. If i didn t know better i d swear the animals are out there at night with super glue gluing it to the dirt.

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 scoop out manure daily but i still had to deal with urine soaked straw stuck to the floor. I have a dirt floor in the goat barn and i love it. Lidingo wikimedia commons cc by sa 3 0.

Soil sand or clay. We have dirt floors and use straw for bedding. I had wooden floors in my little field shelters and found they were impossible to keep clean. The barn smells good and the wood floors are easy on the feet.

Good drainage is the important part. Since the weather was semi decent today i decided to clean out the barn. Here s a look at the types of flooring found in horse s stables. I definately wouldn t use concrete unless you went with rubber mats.

It just scrapes right up. The floor is dirt and the previous owners put mats for the horses and then hay on top of the mats. Try that on dirt floors.