Should barn floor be pressure treated?

[Pearce Pastures]

Looking good!

 

[bonbean01]

 

[greybeard]

I recently had a new shed built for the goats and alpaca in their pasture. It's a day shed for comfort and protection. I had the base frame and supports made from treated wood. The actual floor I used untreated hemlock. Personally, I wouldn't use chemically treated wood (floor) where the animals would have direct contact with their bodies when lying down.
My particular floor is almost 1" thick and I know it will last for a very long time.

In my barn where the goats sleep, I have limestone siftings as the floor, which coincidentally, I just cleaned yesterday. Comparing the two, I prefer a wooden floor over dirt/stone. It is much easier to clean.

I also have moisture/water issues here, especially in my pasture and a dirt floor would be out of the question if I wanted to keep the animals dry. The rerouting of water would be impossible for my particular situation.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y111/Michael3215/goats/P1010982.jpg

A really nice job, and an added advantage to that, is if you should ever decide to get out of livestock, it's nice enough to be able to pretty easily convert it to anything else you wish to use it for--a shop, storage, man/woman cave etc.
If you build another one, photo-document it please. When I first registered here, I read most of the old threads and there were LOTS of requests for plans/instructions regarding small barns, loafing sheds, and general construction of farm outbuildings. I wish I had done it when I built my cow loafing shed, but did not--I just never thought about it. I reccomend eveyryone at least make a good drawing and post as they build. Lots of people are really great at raising animals, but just don't have much experience in construction. Nothing wrong with that--most of us are lacking (myself included) in lots of areas of expertise.

Dirt floors for me--cows don't stay in it much anyway except in very cold windy weather.

I can't tell by the pics (bad eyes) what you did where the joists meet the walls.
Are the joists sitting inside the top plates or on top of them? (Looks like the are nested inside)
If you nested them, Did you use metal strongties/Simpson ties where the roof joists meet the walls--or just nail and screw straight in?

 

[Evergreen160]

greybeard: Are you referring to the roof joists? Each roof joist is notched so that it is nestled into the wall and then it is secured with hurricane ties.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Kilz followed up with white oil based paint will seal those floors in nice and tight. Florida here, our goat house, coop, and all the duck and goose houses are wood floored, painted with Kilz then white oil based two-three coats. Other than a stain here or there to the white paint they are all FINE, fine. We are sand, not dirt, and with hurricanes needed everyone up off the ground or the first tropical storm would make them all soggy. Oh and the goats have stall mats in their stalls under the pine shavings.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Forgot to mention, we use lime, pdz, and or DE in all of the buildings as well when cleaning them out.