Crushed Concrete Barn Floor

But concrete also goes an incredible long ways for hood health.

Crushed concrete barn floor.

Dirt floors are the ideal option when it comes to livestock barns. When you have animals housed in a barn dirt floors will provide softer ground to stand or rest on than other types of flooring such as concrete. Concrete has different finishing options. You may wish to have one type of flooring for aisles and another in the stalls.

It just scrapes right up. This type of flooring has become popular due to its durability and low maintenance. Impervious flooring materials concrete. Steel troweling brings fine aggregate and cement to the top forming a glazed and slippery surface.

I will say that outside the barn where the aprons get rained on the dust is much harder and solid. It is easier to muck out and clean a concrete floor stall than most other materials. It s solid and won t settle so you won t have to pull up mats and re level the floors every once in a while as you do with porous flooring like clay. If you want a surface that doesn t give at all you need to actually put down flooring.

Cool concrete to lie on and shade overhead it is a sheep s dream. Here s a look at the types of flooring found in horse s stables. For several types of barns this is the ideal solution when it comes to pole barn floors. The upkeep of some types of flooring is easier than others.

Here is a view of my floor and it s minor imperfections in the little video i made of spirit the pony. But my barn is also a through barn design so cleanout just means a trip or two down each side with my tractor and the manure is gone.