Barn & Bed Down Photos! Where do your horses live?

[Zergling]

Nice setep Amysue. Lots of space in there

 

[minihorse]

Those are really impressive looking. All of you are taking such good care of your horses, and other animals.

 

[Charlie Horse Acres]

This is the outside of the barn. These are 10X20 foot runs.

This is the inside....excuse the mess!

Mares on the south side and stallions on the north. All stalls except 2 are 10x10 and the 2 are 9x10. The area in the middle is big enough to practice jumping or whatever when I have the PVC round pen set up. Horses have their own barn on the other side of the property. No mixing. Grass is fescue so the breeding horses don't get pastured. The goal is to put a giant dirt round pen out the back of the barn for more play time, stallion and mare time, driving practice....etc. Also want to get a small sand round pen for exercise and muscle building.

 

[Marsha Cassada]

Amy sue, you are really getting into the horses. No calves any more?

 

[amysue]

Amy sue, you are really getting into the horses. No calves any more?

Oh...we've expanded on the beef operation as well. We finally got access to more of our pasture (family drama) and put on a nice group of Angus heifers and some Galloway cows. We still raise holstein steers and replacement calves. Things are getting out of control busy in every direction lol. We are doing 4 weekly farmers markets moving the meats, opened a farm stand and expanded the boarding operation. We're up to 40 horses (including 10 boarders), about 100 cows (including calves, steers and heifers) 30 sheep and now hubby is into goats lol. The goat meat is very popular. I filled the old milk parlour with meat rabbits (90) and there are still birds and cats of all sorts running around here. This place is literally a zoo! Hopefully things will settle down a bit and I can get back to other things like checking in here more often.

 

[Zergling]

Charlie, do you have large horses as well or just minatures/ponies? Great barn BTW.

 

[Shari]

Shari, it's good to hear from you. I've thought of Maggie often and wondered how she is doing.

Hi Marsha,

She was doing a lot better, pretty much back to normal. I had surgery a couple of weeks ago, so my Son came to help and not sure wither she got or ate her meds but has back slid a bit.
Now I am able to do the farm chores again, will see if she improves. Keeping my fingers crossed.

 

[Silver City Heritage Farmstead]

Here are our contributions. . I have a humble but love-filled shedrow type barn. It has three slots that are approximately 8'×14'. Backside enclosed, and hopefully I'll finish the short sides by the end of the month. ('Tis a cold wind that's been a blowin' recently!!)

It has a dirt floor....and that dirt floats EVERYWHERE. Coats all surfaces, tack, hay, a fine skim on water buckets, up your nose....yeah.

I'm using Hurricane Florence's visit to address that issue. I've cruised neighborhoods and brought home a couple small pieces of ruined carpet to install face side down. This week my husband found a GIANT piece that covers two entire slots!!

As you can see, this carpet is very, very stained. It smells like !!! My cat won't be adding to the stink because Cash still isn't letting her into the barn. How will I resolve this?? Every time I clean, I'll dump the cleaning bucket in the barn and scrub it down. I don't like dumping bleach/Lysol water outside because it ruins the environment. I'm making an exception for this!!

The first picture is Spanky's stall right after I stripped it. He stays pretty cozy in there. I believe Cash (the Koolie dog that you see in two of the pictures) has influenced him in the last year. Cash is a Prima Donna and does NOT like to get wet. I mean, doesn't like to get wet like goats and cats don't. So now Spanky spends more time inside the barn than outside, if it's raining.

Oh, by the way....since this is my first post in many months (this year??)......HEY Y'ALL!!!!!

 

[secuono]

Mine sleep wherever, but usually in the barn yard.

 

[minihorse]

How neat. Love your land that you have for them. That photo of the great Pry and the horse is just adorable. Would make a great card cover photo.

 

[SampleMM]

This is my farm. Sample's Majestic Miniatures. We are located in Corry, PA and are just one mile from the NY line. I have way too much grass, lots of different turnouts and pastures.

 

[Jlowe69]

Rebel is my gelding & Skye is my Philly. In the winter, the sides of the corral get covered to keep the wind out. They do sleep in the barn at night.

 

[Martino1]

I just wanted to say Hi and let you know you'll be seeing me around the forum more and more. I'm the Lead Technical Admin to keep things working, and backing up Mona and Vertical Limit in keeping all the wild parties fun.

I thought it would be fun to have an on-going photo thread of your barns or where your horses bed down. So share a few photos, great to include your minis in them too!

 

[Little Hooves]

Puck standing outside the barn.

 

[Sam]

This is our place when we first moved here 11 years ago. Michael had to construct stalls, for all the kids,
as it was just a large open cavern. Previous owner built it for a shop where he did lazer cut outs and various
other projects.
Stalls are all 10x12, tongue and grove divider walls with stainless steel chew rails, matted stalls and aisle ways
Everything is screwed together so it can easily be re-conformed at any time.
I'm sure I've more 'lived in' photos but didn't have to search for these.
Outdoors the stallions are in 50x60 paddocks with an aisle as a secondary line of defense between them and the girls.
We don't breed any longer so we and they are all retired. The 'kids' range in age from 7 to 18 now. Where did those years go?
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Those horses are beautiful and that barn is better than some people homes I've seen photos of. You sure do take good care of your minis.

 

[Equuisize]

Thank you Sam!

 

[Sam]

Are there anymore photos of the homes for the minis? I've been looking at these often.

 

[Millie and The Boys]

My husband fenced in an area in front of my full sized geldings stall. We put down shavings over the sand. Millie hangs out during the day in a dry lot adjacent to the big boys. She seems to like her stall.

Can’t seem to upload the pic. Says it is too large.

 

[minihorse]

Do you know the file size? In KB? Look for 5KB as that is the highest setting right now.

 

[WantAMini]

View attachment 39235 View attachment 39236 We had a quonset hut on our property when we bought it. Once we cleaned it out thoroughly, turned it into a "barn" for the horses to use when they have to come in from their paddock. Two stalls, one that has some outdoor space (about 12'x18') and one that is completely covered (about 14'x16'), a 6'x18' storage area, water to both stalls and open on both ends for good airflow, flooring is 1" rubber stall mats over the existing floor. I keep shavings in one stall . . . no bedding in the other.

This is a great idea that I had not entertained when thinking of getting one or more horses.