Raising goats: how to keep their barn clean! straw vs pine bedding. you have a few options when you think about bedding, but really it comes down to pine vs. straw. pine bedding is made of little tiny pine tree pieces that will get in your hair and stick to your clothes.. The goats know they sleep in the straw, and pee in the shavings. sometimes they pee in the straw so i do strip that part out as needed too, but really, stall mats are super crucial to keeping a clean, not smelly barn. i have all my horse and goat stalls matted, and people are always amazed at the lack of smell and flies in my barn.. I have a dirt floor barn, and use straw as a bedding however i am worried about cocci and parasite carryover in between times i clean out the stalls..
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Mucking out a barn involves removing all the used bedding down to the floor and replacing it with clean bedding to prevent the spread of parasites and other problems. how frequently you need to muck your barn depends on the size of the area and how many goats you have.. Picture ma and pa kettle without all those kids to help. an efficiency expert would probably observe that our stall-cleaning method is tantamount to filling a wheelbarrow when it is headed into the barn wall. most folks with large herds would just laugh at the absurd impracticality of attempting to keep a goat barn clean on a daily basis.. Goatwisdom. shelter. these are a few pictures of our goat barn, with some pointers on construction planning. because of the large numbers of photos, this page will take quite a while to load. . .please be patient! this view shows that the building, which is an attachment to another barn, is built on poles on a sloping area..
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