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.

My goat barn is a dirt floor. Here s a look at the types of flooring found in horse s stables. In the winter we deep pile straw and clean it out in the spring. 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.

I tore the floors out and just put the shelters on the dirt. Hello and thank you for all this information. The floor is dirt and the previous owners put mats for the horses and then hay on top of the mats. Good drainage is the important part.

I had wooden floors in my little field shelters and found they were impossible to keep clean. Lidingo wikimedia commons cc by sa 3 0. We have dirt floors and use straw for bedding. It makes cleaning very easy plus the dirt absorbs all the pee.

Try that on dirt floors. But concrete also goes an incredible long ways for hood health. 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. 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.

I have a dirt floor in the goat barn and i love it. It just scrapes right up. The barn smells good and the wood floors are easy on the feet. Since the weather was semi decent today i decided to clean out the 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. Soil sand or clay. I am trying to convert a horse barn with stalls to a goat barn.