EddieWalker
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I've been going about this all wrong and hopefully I'm slowly figuring it out. My first mistake was not fencing out the horses from where we have to walk to get to the feed, and then having them behind a fenced area when we feed them. That's done and it's been a huge improvement. Next I will fence out the goats, but the only way that I have to do that will require building a new area for them to be able to get out of the rain. That's coming. Until then, I'm dealing with a mud mess after a rain right in front of the feed room door.
My first thought is to just add more dirt to stop any water from getting there. Where I've done this before, the dirt just disappears from the animals. I honestly don't know what they do with it, but it seems to go back to where it was before fairly quickly. So maybe I need a lot more dirt?
My other thought was to lay down something like flagstone to walk on. It's not so much that the mud is deep, it's just very slippery with the goats, ducks and chickens walking around it nonstop, day after day.
I thought about gravel, and that just might be what I end up doing.
Then I was wondering if hay would work? Kind of let it get tangled into the mud and form something not so slippery? or will that just make a bigger mess?
What have you used to deal with mud around the barn when dealing with animals?
There is a roof over this area, the water is coming in from the sides, and the goats, which is why I'm thinking more dirt, which is obvious, but I'm just hoping that somebody out there has a better idea that I never heard of before.
My first thought is to just add more dirt to stop any water from getting there. Where I've done this before, the dirt just disappears from the animals. I honestly don't know what they do with it, but it seems to go back to where it was before fairly quickly. So maybe I need a lot more dirt?
My other thought was to lay down something like flagstone to walk on. It's not so much that the mud is deep, it's just very slippery with the goats, ducks and chickens walking around it nonstop, day after day.
I thought about gravel, and that just might be what I end up doing.
Then I was wondering if hay would work? Kind of let it get tangled into the mud and form something not so slippery? or will that just make a bigger mess?
What have you used to deal with mud around the barn when dealing with animals?
There is a roof over this area, the water is coming in from the sides, and the goats, which is why I'm thinking more dirt, which is obvious, but I'm just hoping that somebody out there has a better idea that I never heard of before.