what is the floor of a horse barn made of?

I googled it and came up with the following: I hope it helps.

"My barn aisle is dirt, and I want to resurface it. What's best - concrete or pavement?"

A dirt barn floor surface is obviously the most inexpensive flooring for a barn, but is it going to provide you with long term safety, ease of maintenance and usability? Probably not. While the temptation may be high to justify a dirt floor due to budget, suitability of local soil types, time constraints, etc., more often than not it is resurfaced somewhere down the road, after it has been patched up and made tolerable one too many times.

A long term solution would be either concrete or asphalt pavement. Concrete is relatively expensive, but it is permanent and easier to apply than asphalt. It can be poured into forms that will seal off the lower portion of stall walls, eliminating any dangerous gaps that a horse may get a leg through. It should be applied to a depth of no less than four inches.

Horse Barn Flooring

Every barn is different but most barns in my area have concrete or bricks (you dont have to have the rubber mat)with a rubber mat for the aisle (not fully over it like 1foot of concrete a both sides(only on the sides not the top or bottom of the aisle) and some websites do have special products for horse footing. For the stalls you can use a rubber mat with dirt under it instead of concrete (this mat should go ALL the way to the wall (no dirt should be showing) instead of dirt some people do use wood chips. If you plan on having a wash stall you can use rubber mat (all the way to the wall), bricks,concrete ,and if you want you can buy special wash stall footing

Mostly dirt. Some people layer in sand, then clay, then put rubber mats over top. I've seen some where the center aisle is concrete but the stalls are dirt/sand/clay with mats or without mats.

My barn is a pole barn with a dirt floor (I'm thinking about putting rubber mats in my stalls though to cut the dust). No "foundation" the treated wood walls go all the way to the dirt. My friend has a steel barn building with dirt floors but set on top of a cinderblock and concrete foundation.

Generally the easiest way to keep the stalls clean and hygienic is to have a concrete floor, then you put straw or sawdust in for comfort. yes dirt floors are a bit softer to stand on but they tend to get smelly and muddy once the horse pees in the stall. sawdust or straw will absorb the urine and can be easily removed. its a little hard to to remove the soiled dirt.

Dirt

Many different things,

Bricks, Concrete,Dirt

Whatever your style!

Most common is concrete though.

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using lime makes a big difference in the odor of a dirt floor.

I know one fella who dug his dirt floor out and layered with gravel, lime and then dirt. And of course a layer of wood shavings.

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Mine is dirt, but if given the option, I'd love concrete aisles with rubber matting over them, and well-drained stalls. :)