Stalls door size/stall size/stall ideas?

[Marsha Cassada]

Marsha, I hadn't thought of using it upside down. That would work. )

What kind of chickens do you raise?

Well, darn, I notice the hinge pins appear that it can only be installed one way. We don't raise any (yet) just have a few for grasshopper control and eggs.

Most interesting to see everyone's creative enclosures.

 

[wildoak]

Charlotte, is there a brand name on those gates? Would love to find a couple like that..

Jan

 

[SugaryCharm]

My husband and I put in two stalls in our barn this summer. They were made within the constraints of the existing barn with big horses in mind (one is 11' x 14' and the other is 11' x 12'). The solid portion is 4' high. I am new to the world of minis but so far I like the "big horse" sized stall for my mini girl because it makes it very easy to clean and she has plenty of room to move around.

Here are our stalls right after we finished them:

 

[Cupcake]

Here are some pictures:

(still in progress- will be finishing the siding on the top soon, adding lights and water)

Right stall (big gelding) and tack /feed room on the right - the lower part is what we added in space when we enlarged it)

Left stall

 

[Cupcake]

Back door to her pasture

Feed room aka. Horse heaven

(kinda full right now but with tx being in an ongoing drought I'd rather be safe than sorry)

The beginning

The temporary osb solution

And my cake version

 

[Charlotte]

Jan, They aren't a branded product. Cross Brand Feed (in OkC) carried these gates for over 20 years for the race track business. They had them made and just recently stopped carrying them. When I first saw them there they were priced at $40 or so and the last they had were $90. I just lucked into these. Bought all the trainer had and sold the extras. You could try placing a 'wanted to buy' ad on Craig's List in OkC and see if anything came of it.

 

[littlenicker]

Nice barns! Lol love the cake barn!!

 

[rabbitsfizz]

All my Mini doors are small enough for the horse to easily put it's head over- around 30" max- as I found the hard way that if you put a Mini behind too tall a door it either does exactly what the cute little pony on the cake is doing, or it goes bananas because it cannot see out. Once they have their heads over the doors, just like a big horse, they tend to settle down.

 

[wildoak]

So right, Jane. Horses really need to be able to see out and to get ventilation, and they get nuts - or depressed - when they can't. Our old barn was a big horse setup with solid walls, so we put windows in the sides & used wire gates they could see through. Now I have wire panels between my stalls so everything is open and airy. We have reinforced them since this picture was taken, added a board top & bottom for height and stability. Makes it easy to see more horses on camera as well, since you don't have solid walls blocking your view.

Jan

 

[Cupcake]

While I agree with that when you have a stall inside an enclosed barn, I won't have a permanent "see through" door on mine as the stall (all) walls are outside walls and it would expose her to the elements too much. Also, if I would make a shorter door, it would just invite my big gelding to climb right over. It's tall where she couldn't put her feet up on it. As I mentioned, if I give her the option to see out, she would go nuts every time she realized that her boyfriend is not right there - a lot of time she assumes he's there and when she doesn't she calls for him.

She spends lots of time in the pasture so she's not stalled 24/7. I will however add a side window or some option to open for ventilation for the hotter time of the year when we finish the rest of the siding.

 

[rabbitsfizz]

Put a bar up- that stops big horses walking in unannounced!

Put a quarter door on top of the half door that brings it up to BH height, that stops the Mini seeing out when you do not wish her to.

Simples...