Ridgetop
Herd Master
Just keep adding dry on top of the bedding you have. Since you said that they don't like the Coastal you are getting you can use it.
Here we use straw if we use it at all. We don't get as cold here. One El Nino year it rained for months straight through, and the barn pens did not drain properly. We have heavy clay soil. Those are the pens we used them for kidding our dairy does and raising the bottle kids. After the second week of non-stop rain, we started cleaning the stalls and hit 1" of standing water near the bottom. After that we just added straw on top for 3 months. It was a real job to muck out in the spring - our barn is all by hand since it is 4' below the driveway and you can't get a tractor in it! But it kept the goats up out of the water and mud all winter and the decomposing straw on the bottom warmed up the stalls for the babies.
Here we use straw if we use it at all. We don't get as cold here. One El Nino year it rained for months straight through, and the barn pens did not drain properly. We have heavy clay soil. Those are the pens we used them for kidding our dairy does and raising the bottle kids. After the second week of non-stop rain, we started cleaning the stalls and hit 1" of standing water near the bottom. After that we just added straw on top for 3 months. It was a real job to muck out in the spring - our barn is all by hand since it is 4' below the driveway and you can't get a tractor in it! But it kept the goats up out of the water and mud all winter and the decomposing straw on the bottom warmed up the stalls for the babies.
