horse course design
Barn Designs?
We just bought a 7 acre farm that we plan to keep our two horses on part time. (weekends and during school breaks). Anyway, we are looking at putting a small barn on the property. Right now I am looking at doing a set up with 4 stalls, a wash rack, feed room and office/tack room. So my questions are as followed:
Are there any features that you love about your barn that might not be the norm?
What materials would you build a barn out of or is your barn built out of? (Treated lumber ect)
Types of flooring? (concrete, asphalt, clay ect) Likes/dislikes?
What stall designs or set up do you/your horses prefer? What is better health wise?
Any info/opinions are greatly appreciated! We are (of course) going to get professional help with building the barn but I want to know the little extras that make barns great.
Also if anyone is bored, make up a barn design (with layout and measurements) and e-mail it to me. (jazzme2305@yahoo.com) I would love to see what yall come up with!
I used to have a 20 stall barn that I leased and managed…though that experience, I learned a lot about what I would want if/when I built my own. I never did, I have always had to make do or make changes in an already existing facility. It had automatic waterers (heated) in the stalls, half of the barn was built against a hill, so that on one side, half of the barn was underground, the whole area above the stalls was for hay storage, to be dropped down into the feeders into the stalls. Speaking of the stalls…way down under the stalls were railroad ties, then 18″ of sand on that, shavings…needless to say, the stalls NEVER got wet. we picked the stalls twice a day and the barn smelled like shavings and clean horses all the time..now, the waterers were always a headache..and….you NEVER knew if a horse was drinking or not and if there was ever a short in one of the waterers, and a horse got shocked even one time, he would never go back and drink from it…so I turned off all of the waterers and hung buckets in the stalls and pulled a hose down the aisle to fill them…still the best way, more work, but you can keep track of what is going on with your horse. Oh yes, the overhead hay storage was a dusty headache…also made the barn hotter when the loft was full, and impaired the circulation, even though there were several vents. I would try not to even let anyone up there while there were horse still in the stalls because of the dust that was created by walking in the loft. One thing that I did appreciate was that half of the barn was against the dirt…even in the summer, it was cool in the barn. I also consider it important to have a solid window in every stall that opens wide enough for the horse to comfortably get his head out. There are lot’s of reasons for this, not to mention the fresh air, but it lessons the boredom, which in turn, lessons the weaving and cribbing and kicking the stalls. I like concrete for the washrack and alley, and it should be wide enough that horses can be tied on either side and still be groomed. Also, if the wash stall has a window, just like the stall window in it, your horses will walk in much easier because they can see out and don’t feel like they are going into a dead end…you can always close it when you get your horse tied. Of course, you will want a hot water heater just for the wash rack. If money isn’t an issue, a small bathroom is a must, and well planned, locked tackrooms…I always dreamed of having, within the large tackrooms, partitions for each individual’s tack that they could lock up and know that their stuff would never be used or touched by anyone else while they were gone. Keep in mind, everyone that boarded there wasn’t family, so that was a big issue that had to be addressed on a regular basis. Boy, I could go on and on…guess I already have. No, I don’t like mats, have tried them, would rather have good drainage with shavings. I personally don’t like cross ties, but every stable has them and uses them, and most of the time, successfully…but then…there is always the horse that just flips, for no reason, and you have to haul them off…seriously. I would prefer individual places in front of the stall meant for tying, along with a blanket bar…out of reach of where the horse can’t chew…Oh yeah, a doctoring/clipping chute somewhere in an out of the way, but well lit area…guess I’d better stop, we all have lots of ideas..hope this helps a little…and one more thing, you NEVER have too many lights…with convenient places for switches.
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