Barn Floors Goats

We converted our 8 x16 chicken coop into another shelter for the goats.

Barn floors goats. When i knew we were moving and i d need to build a new goat barn i ran across this one. Bheila dec 29 2009. But if you have the opportunity then you should. I have not ever used lime so could not help you with that.

The gotta goat goat barn. This barn looks great is super functional and also appears to be sturdy as well. Our barn floors are dirt and we rake the poop out every morning. That barn burned so the new one has a gravel floor that gets thrown out with the bedding.

My first goat barn was part of cow dairy barn concrete floors. Livestock mats barn flooring keep you animals healthy and comfortable. Farmtek offers mats are ideal for horse stalls dairy free stalls trailers work stations tack and feed rooms wash racks and barn aisles and entryways. Sadly i haven t got to build it yet.

I have admired this goat barn for quite some time. We have mats to increase productivity keep animals warm and dry and improve animal comfort. So when we moved i put wooden floors into the goat pen figuring the urine would drain between the boards into the dirt below and the dirt wouldn t get compacted because the goats weren t standing on it. Linda wood floors and concrete hold and breed insects and disease.

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I had dirt floors and wasn t happy with the drainage. It is so much easier to clean and helps keep them cool in the summer. It s so easy to clean out and i don t have to worry about the wood rotting because of the linoleum. Once the dirt got compacted it was pretty well waterproof.

Twice a year i flush our barn dirt floors with baking soda and vinager then add more soil from different places on our property. The part where the goats hang out a lot is very hard almost like stone. You want a well drained soil like sand for your barn floor. This is a good basic floor plan showing the fundamentals of a goat barn.

Grain is stored in a metal garbage can with a tight lid.