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This is the side of
the barn where our horse stock is located, it is used for
palpations, vet treatments, washing horses, or anything requiring
restraint. We also could have another wash rack if needed, we just
have a swing there now. You can tell I like coke-cola! My "Resting
Cowboy" is always in his favorite place to greet our visitors. I
call him "Little Joe" (can you guess why?).
They have already
started on the footing for the new building. It will be where we
do some of our work with the foals (halter showing and introducing
the foals to new things), some of our riding (we want have to
worry about the weather), storage area and we can put in portable
stalls if we need them.
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This is the
hallway of our horse barn, the view from the middle of the
barn. We have ten stalls, they're 12x12. We have crusher run,
rubber mats and shaving for the floor of the stalls. We do not
have automatic waters because I had a friend with horses that
would play in theirs and floor their stalls, so we just have
water buckets. As you can see our hallway is cement, with
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We have video
cams in our stalls, which I can watch on the TV at the house!
Also in our stalls we have ceiling fans and we just added big
fans for every two stalls. We have a water mist system in the
hallway that is on a timer, it really helps cool the barn. We
have a automatic fly system, one in each stall, wash bay and
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We have one
wash bay inside the barn, which can be used for washing,
grooming and other things. We have a sprayer boom in wash bay,
that is where your hose is up above your horse--it doesn't get
in the way at all. The floor is cement with rubber mats. Just
got rubber cabinets to replace the shelves on the back wall of
wash bay. That's where our grooming supplies and some of our
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Our Tack Room
is located near the wash bay area, we have most of our tack
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This is the new
arena. It is 72'x105' (18' side walls). As you can see we have a
lot of skylights( all the way down both side walls and some in the
roof), we have 6 windows that can be opened (or when they are
closed some light comes in) and 4 large garage doors that also let
in a lot of light! I wanted as much natural light coming in as
possible and as much ventilation as possible. This April we'll add
lights and fans to the arena. Keith and Danny had added some
lights so we can work some at night now!
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This facility will
serve as a riding arena as well as having portable stalls and
storage possible. I feel it will have a lot of uses in the future.
We want have to worry about the weather when someone comes to
check out a foal or riding a horse! As for the floor, we have red
dirt and sand mixed, which is dragged and watered regularly.
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Danny and Keith
painting fence posts! This is our new pasture. It is 10 to
12 acres of pasture and trees. They're putting up the Centaur
fencing. I really like it a lot more that the white plastic
fencing we have. We're needing more pastures, so we will have
areas to separate mares and foals when weaning time comes and when
we have outside mares in to breed to Patches.
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