The most popular options for pole barn flooring dirt.
Dirt floor in goat barn aerate.
Dirt well draining soil really can be a good flooring.
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If you want to practice compost bedding adding bedding to the top periodically to create a clean surface and allowing the bottom to compost and produce heat all winter then it is probably the best choice.
Keeping their barn 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.
A big con is that you have a big cleanout ahead of you in the spring and you.
In this post learn the best ways to keep a shelter and barn clean when raising goats.
Since the weather was semi decent today i decided to clean out the barn.
Soil sand or clay.
I scoop out manure daily but i still had to deal with urine soaked straw stuck to the floor.
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.
Since a pole barn s only foundation requirements are in the footers for the poles the central dirt inside can be left alone.
It makes cleaning very easy plus the dirt absorbs all the pee.
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I use stall pellets in our goat shed and i love it.
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The easiest pole barn flooring option is dirt.
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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.
If i didn t know better i d swear the animals are out there at night with super glue gluing it to the dirt.
We have dirt floors and use straw for bedding.
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Once the dirt got compacted it was pretty well waterproof.
I had dirt floors and wasn t happy with the drainage.
I have a dirt floor in the goat barn and i love it.
Line the floor with linoleum or a rubber mat first.
