Dirt Floor In Goat Barn

We have dirt floors and use straw for bedding.

Dirt floor in goat barn.

Hello and thank you for all this information. Since the weather was semi decent today i decided to clean out the 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 have a dirt floor in the goat barn and i love it.

I had wooden floors in my little field shelters and found they were impossible to keep clean. 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. 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 scoop out manure daily but i still had to deal with urine soaked straw stuck to the floor.

It just scrapes right up. Soil sand or clay. But concrete also goes an incredible long ways for hood health. Lidingo wikimedia commons cc by sa 3 0.

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

In the winter we deep pile straw and clean it out in the spring. The barn smells good and the wood floors are easy on the feet. I definately wouldn t use concrete unless you went with rubber mats. The floor is dirt and the previous owners put mats for the horses and then hay on top of the mats.

I am trying to convert a horse barn with stalls to a goat barn. Try that on dirt floors. Good drainage is the important part.