Dixie Chicks

[perchie.girl]

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I am curious about that as well.... most barns dont do wood floors because of the weight of the animals that go in there.... Cows, and hOrses specifically. usually what they do is lay down medium sizedd crushed stone with a smaller stone on top of that and finally a top dressing of the kind of stuff that is like sand but it packs in... it will be almost as hard as concrete... but it will drain very very well as long as a french drain is done first with the proper slope to it so it drains away...

But typically barns are supposed to be designed to NOT get wet even if its storming out.... swales around the building are built so the run off the roof will not accumulate near the walls. Same for a house.

deb

 

[minihorse927]

I am curious about that as well....  most barns dont do wood floors because of the weight of the animals that go in there....  Cows, and hOrses specifically.  usually what they do is lay down medium sizedd crushed stone with a smaller stone on top of that and finally a top dressing of the kind of stuff that is like sand but it packs in...  it will be almost as hard as concrete...  but it will drain very very well as long as a french drain is done first with the proper slope to it so it drains away... 

But typically barns are supposed to be designed to NOT get wet even if its storming out....  swales around the building are built so the run off the roof will not accumulate near the walls.  Same for a house.

deb

yeah, the genius people who built this barn built it at the bottom.of a hill, a big hill. They added no gravel or dirt to keep the inside higher or swell to the outside. The barn is in such rough shape that it wasn't worth fixing.
I've been dealing with the down falls of the barn for 9ish years now. Figure this fall I'll get the new place in and I'll have a nice poultry barn with a crushed run floor. I've done my horse barn with crush run 2 ft deep. It never floods. It was built new in 2006 when I moved into this house.

 

[minihorse927]

Oh, their floor was the dirt, with a piece of barn metal thrown on it! I kept scraping cause the ground felt super loose for it to be the floor this time and I hit a good size piece of rock and then that metal.

 

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@RavynFallen, ohiki pics

 

[BriardChickens]

Uhg, I smell horrible. I just got done cleaning 1 of 3 flooded pens. It was the worst, it had the grow out ducks. Who are an now a lovely solid brown caked mud color. Now onto the ohikis pen (luckily it's just wet, not sloppy) then the grow out pen of chick's which is also just wet but luckily not mucky. I'll be so happy to have my new barn this fall which will have an actual floor in it and not just a barn built on the ground. Genius previous owners.

Previous owners are usually of the genius type. Don't get me started on ours...

Pen 2 cleaned, pen 3 will have to wait till tomorrow. Pen 2 has never been cleaned down that far. I cleaned down till I found original floor. I thought I found original floor the last time, nope... I have to say I won't use deep litter ever again. What a pita!

Because metal drains so well, didn't you know?! *heavy sarcasm*

 

[BriardChickens]

Oh and the Ancona site still hasn't approved the request to join. :-s

 

[minihorse927]

Oh and the Ancona site still hasn't approved the request to join. :-s

blech. She doesn't get on every day.