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Location: North Dakota | Nice pics Kay!! Nice barn. My only comment is the hay holders. The place I board at now has that too, and while it is REALLY handy to be able to give the horse's hay without going into the stall, I don't like the hay holders because it gives them rub marks on either side of their nose.  Unless it's just my horse.... I don't normally stall at all, but he was on 2 months stall rest for an injury. I quit using the hay feeder when I noticed the rub marks after a few days. Switched to a good ol' slow feed hay net.
So just my 2 cents on that, but maybe the width of mine are smaller too or something.
I like the idea of being able to throw hay down into a stall from loft, but then I'd want to come up with some sort of conveyer or something to get the hay upstairs. I'm almost leaning toward making some sort of concrete room for the hay to lessen the spread of fire, but of course I would need to figure out how to ventilate it well. Just thoughts in my head. I don't need a ton of square bales as I plan on primarily feeding round bales, but who knows.
I'm planning on doing a separate tack and feed room. And I want the feed room with it's own door too - just in case a horse would ever get loose, I don't want them getting into the feed room.
I'd also like to have wash rack. I'm envisioning putting it next to my temp-controlled tack room, because that might make more sense with keeping pipes from freezing and such, for hot water on the wash rack.
Kinda planned on either doing skylights or windows. Planned on insulating it .... haven't decided if I would ever put up actual heaters. Maybe just above the wash rack, if I need to tend to an injury or something? Could also easily use a propane heater on the ground, just for those circumstances. Rather than actually buying and mouting a heater on the ceiling.
All these wonderful thoughts until reality sets in when we actually start getting a real bid for the project, LOL.
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 The Bling Princess
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Location: North Dakota | We just built a 40*72 pole frame structure. We did overhead doors on the east and west side, with windows, & a sliding door on the SW corner, so I can bring horses in from the corral without having to open the overheads. I have a 12ft lean on the south side, the entire length of the barn. It protects them from the brutal, NW winds we get in ND and catches the sun when it's rising, so it's nice and somewhat mild underneath it. I also did 4 clear panels on the north side to allow for extra light, along with several windows. I like A LOT of light. We did LED lights throughout the barn, one over each stall, down the alley, outside, under the lean, etc. I put the stall lights on a dimmer, so that they aren't standing in complete darkness. I did a 12*16 tack room on one side and the 12*16 feed room on the other. Each with a sliding door into the alley. I have 4, 12*12, Hi-Qual stalls and a small area to work a horse in the rear of the barn. We have a 16 foot alley that I kept as dirt and then we layed rubber mats over the top and drove spikes through them to hold them in place. I also put rubber mats in each of the stalls for extra comfort.
My favorite part of the barn is my tack room. I've never had one until now. I've always just kept my tack in my horse trailer. I did tongue in groove knotty pine, with a galvanized steel wainscoting. it's seriously nicer than my house!LOL
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Location: MN | r_beau - 2017-12-18 10:28 AM Nice pics Kay!! Nice barn. My only comment is the hay holders. The place I board at now has that too, and while it is REALLY handy to be able to give the horse's hay without going into the stall, I don't like the hay holders because it gives them rub marks on either side of their nose. Unless it's just my horse.... I don't normally stall at all, but he was on 2 months stall rest for an injury. I quit using the hay feeder when I noticed the rub marks after a few days. Switched to a good ol' slow feed hay net.
So just my 2 cents on that, but maybe the width of mine are smaller too or something.
I like the idea of being able to throw hay down into a stall from loft, but then I'd want to come up with some sort of conveyer or something to get the hay upstairs. I'm almost leaning toward making some sort of concrete room for the hay to lessen the spread of fire, but of course I would need to figure out how to ventilate it well. Just thoughts in my head. I don't need a ton of square bales as I plan on primarily feeding round bales, but who knows.
I'm planning on doing a separate tack and feed room. And I want the feed room with it's own door too - just in case a horse would ever get loose, I don't want them getting into the feed room.
I'd also like to have wash rack. I'm envisioning putting it next to my temp-controlled tack room, because that might make more sense with keeping pipes from freezing and such, for hot water on the wash rack.
Kinda planned on either doing skylights or windows. Planned on insulating it .... haven't decided if I would ever put up actual heaters. Maybe just above the wash rack, if I need to tend to an injury or something? Could also easily use a propane heater on the ground, just for those circumstances. Rather than actually buying and mouting a heater on the ceiling.
All these wonderful thoughts until reality sets in when we actually start getting a real bid for the project, LOL.
Edited by Kay-DRacing. 2017-12-18 3:49 PM
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| Put extra electric outlets by each stall so that you can plug in heated water buckets and fans. We have four stalls on one wall and put electric outlets on the stall wall. | |
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