Dirt Floor In Goat Barn

Since the weather was semi decent today i decided to clean out the barn.

Dirt floor in goat barn.

I scoop out manure daily but i still had to deal with urine soaked straw stuck to the floor. 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. I tore the floors out and just put the shelters on the dirt.

Good drainage is the important part. But concrete also goes an incredible long ways for hood health. In the winter we deep pile straw and clean it out in the spring. We have dirt floors and use straw for bedding.

Lidingo wikimedia commons cc by sa 3 0. Hello and thank you for all this information. I am trying to convert a horse barn with stalls to a goat barn. I definately wouldn t use concrete unless you went with rubber mats.

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. So i am wondering if ishould keep or remove the mats for my goats thank you for your time. Soil sand or clay. Try that on dirt floors.

I had wooden floors in my little field shelters and found they were impossible to keep clean. My goat barn is a dirt floor. I have a dirt floor in the goat barn and i love it. 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.

Here s a look at the types of flooring found in horse s stables. It just scrapes right up. 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.