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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | rodeomom3 - 2014-10-04 4:05 PM Ditto to a foundation and gutters. My husband is a contractor and he has built every one of our barns up on a high pad. My stalls are 15x15 and open to 35 x 50 runs. My horses have a throat condition that requires them to sometimes be up off the wet dewy grass so I wanted them to have room to move around, also built open for the heat we have down here.
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 I Chore in Chucks
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Location: MD | we have a typical barn with 12x14 stalls. They get stalled every day and it isn't too big to where it's a pain to clean and bed down, but it's big enough for them to lay down and get comfortable. Since I have it rubber matted down I can sweep the bedding halfway back since they hang back there anyway, it stays cleaner and it's quicker to clean! I also really like the idea of having removable panels to make it basically a foaling stall or one big stall, whichever verbiage you like the best :) |
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| We are in the middle of building our barn and made all our stalls 12x12, and two of them we are able to take the divider out to make a 12x24. My horses are only in during bad weather and the stalls are plenty big enough for them. I think it just depends on how much they will be used. |
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Location: Central Texas | Wow I haven't been on here all weekend, thank you all so much for all the insight and pictures. I have already rented a skid steer and hauled in about 7 loads of fill to raise the barn up to avoid drainage issues. The run in shed I have now floods so I learned that lesson the hard way. I'm still working on the exact stall size but I am definatly making it so I can take the divider wall out between two stalls and make a really big one if ever needed. The stalls will all have a 10 ft cover/porch/awning area that will open to a 20x60 run. I will have three stalls, a feed room and a tack room. My place is cross fenced and the barn is basically being built on the cross fence line. The two front stall runs will open up to the front pasture and the back stall run will open to the back pasture. My wash rack will be outside the barn. I live in the middle of Texas so I figure 90% of the year will be fine outside LOL. I'm borrowing a tractor with post hole digger Friday so I have the rest of this week to make final decisions. I spent all weekend moving my stakes and string lines around. I'm building this whole thing by hand by myself....wish me luck.  |
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  Witty Enough
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Location: CTX | Our barn is a basic lean-to with 3 stalls, they are 12'x24', and we added another 10' by adding panels to it.
It works but when we get our torrential downpours (am in Tx) a big part of the stalls does get wet, so now hubby will be adding a roof to the paneled part too, with a 4' overhang. So hopefully that will keep them drier. Plus it'll give the horses more shade in the summer.
My dream barn has 4 12'x24' stalls, with a similar sized overhang, and opening up into a couple of pastures. Also, a feedroom, tackroom and a washstall with hot and cold water! And it'll have a wetroom with toilet, shower, washer and dryer....
edited because I can't spell this early in the day...
Edited by cranky B4 10am 2014-10-06 9:51 AM
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