The Puppy Ranch Home

     The puppy ranch home was designed and built by my loving husband. Isn't he talented!  It has a 60' x 15' building and is fully insulated with Air-conditioning and Heating.  The floor is completely cemented inside and out.  The inside pens are all on one side and are 5' by 4'.  Each pen has a doggy door for 24 hour access to the outdoors.  The outdoor pens are 5' by 10' so when the dogs are penned up they still have lots of room to play and move around.  All of the cement floors are sloped towards a drain so that when they are washed there is never setting water.  Everything drains toward 4 individual drains that lead to a septic tank to eliminate smells and waste.

This Kennel was our original set up.  Since then we moved to Chamberlain and rebuilt kennels.  I left this picture here because you can see the building without the pens up.

The walls on one side of the building are approximately 8 feet high and on the side with pens they are 6.5 feet high.

  The cement floor extends 5 feet out from the 10 foot long pens for a walk way and easier cleaning.  As you can see the drains our located here.  We also added a 3 inch lip around the entire cement area to keep waste from falling off the side.  The building has also been built on a 2 inch lip to keep water from leaking inside.

These are the puppy pens.  A drop-through floor is provided so the urine and waste falls through.  This helps keep the puppies clean and less likely to get sick

  A drop-through floor is also provided inside.

  Even with individual pens on the left I have plenty of walk room.  On the right  is one of the drains that lead to the septic tank.  There are 2 drains inside and 2 outside.

  The inside pens have self-feeders so the dogs never are without food.  The feeders have dividers inside them.  Each side holds 40 lbs (80 lbs per Feeder) of food so there can be two different brands inside.  We have them set up so there is one feeder for every two pens.  In the picture above you can see one side of the feeder.  The other side goes through to the next pen as you can see from the picture below.

  These are the individual pens I use when preparing a puppy for shipping.  I usually take a puppy away from its littermates days before shipping so the puppy gets use to being alone before the flight.  As you can see they also have drop-through floors.

Nursery

We have decided to build a new nursery for the pregnant mommies and puppies only.  This building is 30 feet x 12 feet with a 15 foot cement pad outside.  This building is exactly like our other building, with some upgrades.  It is heated and cooled.  All drop through flooring.  The cement floor is still sloped and is hooked up to the septic tank.  We are very excited about our new nursery.

These 6 kennels are same size as the previous ones, but it is on one solid metal frame with drop through flooring. 

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The inside floor is actual tenderfoot hog mat.  The holes are smaller so we are able to take puppies out of the whelping boxes earlier without feet falling through.  This is working out excellent.  By putting them on this floor earlier there is less mess for the mommies to clean up, keeping mom and puppies healthier.