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Re: [RC] barn ideas - Karen SullivanFew more thoughts on this barn stuff.... Yes, make the barn pad higher than reccomended.....mine was rolled, compressed road base. It has held up pretty well for 10 years, but i wish it had been twice a thick. My original barn was breezeway, two stalls, tackroom and hay storage. When I got more horses (that always happens!), I built a separate metal hay barn (probably 36 x 40) with an attatched feed room. I turned the tack room into the barn into another stall (which can be totally inclosed, making it dark if you have a horse with a hurt eye). Then, had a stall front put on the open hay storage area, making another stall....and extended the entire back of the barn to 12 X 36 for a huge run in area....so can shelter 7 horses (which is what i was up to once!). It is very nice to have separate stalls for feeding....and bad weather. The run in area is much easier to clean with a little tractor with scraper. Once you have box stalls, you are doomed to shoveling by hand! Karen ============================================================ They're athletes! This is a partnership between horse and rider - we don't have any jockeys out there, just pals and partners. We'd allow a rider with a broken foot, a sore back and a nasty cold to compete - but we would never let a horse in a similiar condition hit the trail. ~ Dr. Barney Flemming DVM ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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