What is the best flooring for barns . leah sattler. could you use pigs to create an impervious barn floor to put bedding on top of, my personal experience as a professional goat farmer/ cheesemaker with floor surfaces is, climate: temperate, 6 month growing season, 4-6 month winters, snowbound for at least 3 months.. My goat barn is a dirt floor. in the winter we deep pile straw and clean it out in the spring. it works fine. i had wooden floors in my little field shelters and found they were impossible to keep clean. i tore the floors out and just put the shelters on the dirt. good drainage is the important part.. We are planning to build a goat barn. my husband was wondering if a concrete floor could be used for the goats. the buildings that we have had in the past had dirt floor..
A milk stand is essential in every goat barn. this one is of simple design, yet sturdy. note the good placement of the grain dish. one should consider putting smooth trailer matting or some type of floor covering on the base so that can be easily cleaned. sooner or later there will be some "spilled milk.". Linda wood floors and concrete hold and breed insects and disease. you want a well drained soil, like sand, for your barn floor. i have not ever used lime, so could not help you with that. twice a year i flush our barn dirt floors with baking soda and vinager, then add more soil from different places on our property.. 4. better hygiene, avoids fungal skin problems in goats in rainy season unlike wooden floors. 5.provides even spacing slats (16 mm) to felicitate easy droppings of dung (in wooden floors after few months the reapers will shrink and bend which allows the �leg stuck� problems in goats and particularly in kids causing fracture of legs) 6..
