Calving addition......

Tomorrow dad and I are gonna set poles to build. A 16x48 add on to his shed to use as a calving shed.    Plan to have a four foot alley down the long side to let pairs in and out, plan to have the maternity pen and three other 10x12 pens in it.......    Talking about the floor, dad was thinking concrete but I was thinking someone on here had a better way to do floors, like a foot of gravel then a couple feet of mulch over it or something like that.......  Suggestions?

After we had 23 days of straight rain this year, believe me, I wish we had MORE concrete. I am not sure what your climate is like, but I like the concrete for cleaning over the dirt/stone floor. I have one old barn that is jack wax and it is harder to clean. that's just me.

Don't disagree that concrete was needed this spring, just though there might be so etching that would let water and pee down.....