What does everyone use on the floor for thier goats?

[Queen Mum]

Lime on wood, then pine shavings with straw on top. Keep it clean. The wood will be fine. You would do well to seal the wood though if you want it to last.

 

[jenlynn4]

oh good this is what I was planning on doing. Thank you! JEN

 

[that's*satyrical]

Is it possible for you to get rid of your wood floor? It will rot out real quick especially with critters peeing on it.

If you can't, to help slow down the rotting, can you paint it with exterior/waterproof paint or put a sealer on it? Or maybe put rubber stall mats down and then use your bedding of choice (usually whatever's most absorbent/economical)?

Another idea you could staple down a couple layers of old feed bags underneath the bedding if you get the plastic type. Easy way to re-use them & basically free.

 

[mangus580]

Is it possible for you to get rid of your wood floor? It will rot out real quick especially with critters peeing on it.

If you can't, to help slow down the rotting, can you paint it with exterior/waterproof paint or put a sealer on it? Or maybe put rubber stall mats down and then use your bedding of choice (usually whatever's most absorbent/economical)?

Another idea you could staple down a couple layers of old feed bags underneath the bedding if you get the plastic type. Easy way to re-use them & basically free.

These are goats we are talking about here.... They will tear those bags up faster than you can say $#%@#$^%

How do I know??? I put linoleum down on the wood floor for our goats... stapled it all around the edges, and even put trim boards over the edges to prevent them from getting to it. Within 3 days, it was all gone... they tore it right up!


As far as wood floor... we have a plywood floor installed in a previous life of the building. It appears to have some sort of coating on it, although what it is, I do not know. They have been using it for 3 years now, and I really dont see any damage to the floor itself. My cheap uncoated pine trim around the edges, sure!

We just use pine chips from TSC, and of course the hay they dont like gets mixed in...

 

[Mamaboid]

All our goat pens have wood floors. We use hay (because it is cheaper here than straw) for bedding. Basically, we clean the pens, put a very small amount just to cover the wood, and then just let the hay build up from the goats eating and pulling it out of the racks. When it gets built up too high, or for some reason gets nasty, we clean to wood and start over. Our goats are only in the pens over night, so it isn't much work to keep them clean. We have more trouble keeping the wasted hay cleaned up in the fields than we do in the pens.

 

[jenlynn4]

oh good...and our floor is made from 2x6 pressure treated deck boards under neath and treated and painted t 1-11 on top of that...I think it will last a while I was just worried about the pee. I think I will put some wood chips or pellets down first then straw. I hope it works...it will be trial and error for a while. JEN