A regular garden sprayer might be helpful, allowing you to disinfect things fairly well with your bleach spray, not have to scrub everything by hand. I know vinegar is an old method, not sure how effective. I like Lysol, diluted for cleaning sick animals pens. Do be very careful with mixing products, they may react violently! I would only have one cleaner in sprayer or bucket at a time.
The one gallon sprayer will go a long ways with just the gallon mix.

Wear a mask, goggles, so droplets are not inhaled or splashed in your eyes. Use heavy, long armed rubber gloves for skin protection. Long sleeves, pants and boots.

The dirt might be mixed with lime, after digging out of flooring, spread in place animals won't use. Or bagged and sent to the dump. After replacing dirt floor, I might get a rubber mat to put over dirt as new stall floor. Warmer, easier to clean, softer to lay on. You can lime under it if dirt gets smelly.

To disinfect, use bleach water rather than vinegar, and you'll also want to clean any surface she might have rubbed that abscess on; feeders, doorways, milking stanchions.

Sorry to hear about the goat. :^(

HI Shellybabe. Sorry about your girl. I know how hard it can be. My vet suggests javex too. Seems to be cheap and reliable. The organism can live in the soil for up to a year I believe so its good your digging. As others have said any thing and everything you think she can in contact with, particularily after the abcess started draining. Hope things will be better now. Take care, Goatgirl

I'm so sorry you had to get her put to sleep.

I'm so sorry. That was a tough decision, Shellybabe, and my hat's off to you for being strong enough to do it.

Vinegar is great as a general purpose cleaner and deoderizer but I wouldn't trust it to kill dangerous germs. I agree with the other posters that bleach would be better.

Sunlight and weather are also helpful in fighting germs. I always try to expose equipment to the elements for a few days after cleaning them.

So sorry about your goat. It's so hard to make decisions like that.

Clorox is a good disinfectant, but it becomes ineffective in the presence of organic matter. So, surfaces need to be scrubbed first in order for the clorox to really disinfect them. You can scrub them with detergent (I use Tide) then use a solution of one part bleach to 9 parts water. Clorox wouldn't work on a dirt floor--I would think you'd need to remove the top layer of dirt. We use an industrial disinfectant at the farm called Tek-trol. It is rather expensive, but the instructions call to dilute it one ounce per gallon of water, so it ends up being relatively cheap because a little goes such a long way. It retains its disinfecting powers even in the presence of organic matter, so it would be effective if sprayed on a dirt floor.

Could anybody tell me what breed of goats make the better pets? And, the girls make better pets also don't they??

the dairy breeds generally make good pets
allthough i have mainly boer goats
i do have 3 Lamancha's ,and the oldr nanny is quite tame and docile .
arent oberhasli's supposed to quite tame also ??
Zeke

my oberhasli, the one I had to put down, was very tame.
my nubian wither is very friendly, while the nanny and doeling are rather un-people-friendly
my boer's are so friendly, they run up and greet me at the gate, and follow me everywhere.
my boer nanny, will, while I am hanging out my clothes, check out every single move I make, and checks the clothes out after they are hung up. doesn't bother them, just checks them out.
I prefer the boers, myself

Neat. Well, I'm gonna get one _or I guess 2 ) since you all agreed 2 is better than 1. I want to get 2 girls...and I'm wonderign will they bond more with my 7 ducks, and 1 cat that I have in my front yard or will they do better with my 2 dogs out back? I want to get 2 young ones, babies I guess. Where could I get some at...At a Tradeday? Thats where I'm thinking..we have a tradeday up on the mountain that has tons of animals every saturday. Well, thaNKYOU!!

let me tell ya something about goats and ducks together,
I keep my two duck hens in the same pen with my boy goats (3 withers and 1 billy) and they get along famous. When I had all the girls in there too, the boer nanny that follows me with the clothes, would go up to my black duck and nudge her and then lay down and the duck would pick the bugs off of her. the other goats would then lay down next to her and Annie, the duck, would go through and preen all the goats. They really like them. I am even thinking about getting some more ducks to put in with the girls, now that I have separate pens for them.
my neighbor has goats and dogs together and the dogs are always taunting the goats, and have killed a couple of the newborn registered ones too.
one of my friends has a dog, forget the name of breed, but it is really big, and white, a Great something. It is a herding type dog I guess and lives with thier goats, and they get along fine.

If you are disinfecting ... here's what hospital labs use.

One quart laundry bleach in one gallon of water. (Yup, we're really high-tech)

Apply with a garden sprayer, thoroughly soaking the surfaces. Let it sit for a while (half hour or so) and them rinse the surfaces with clean water.

Shellybabe, thanks! Your ducks and goats sound adorable! I bet your so glad to see them getting along so well like that! I bet your thinking of a great pyrenees aren't you? We use to have one named Mufassa but he pased away at the age of 10 in 2004. He was so great but we didn't have the ducks when he was here so he never bonded with them....

Lazy gardens, Thanks, I have bought a lot of bleach, getting ready for spraying, I can't use the regular, (Brings back memories of a hospital I had chemo treatments in) so it will be flower fresh in the barn!

Gennym,
Yes a great pyrenees, is the breed I am thinking of.