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Title: Horse Facilities


1
Horse Facilities
  • By Mr. Christiansen
  • 10/28/2003

2
Types of Facilities
  • Fencing
  • Barns
  • Round Pens
  • Corrals
  • Arenas

3
What Types of fences are good for horses?
  • There are many different types of fences that are
    good for horses. The need for each individual
    horse will vary on its geographic location, its
    function or purpose and its value.

4
Types of Fencing
  • Wood
  • Cable
  • Pipe
  • Wire mesh
  • Brick
  • Barbed wire

5
Wood Fencing
6
Vinyl Fencing
7
Cable Fencing
8
Wire Mesh
9
Paneling
10
Barbed Wire
11
Other types of fences
  • Electrical
  • Brick
  • Pipe
  • ????

12
Barns
  • What is the function of a Barn?
  • Will the function change according to geographic
    location?
  • Will the function change according to type of
    horse being kept?

13
Types of Barns
  • Shed
  • Gable
  • Offset Gable
  • Monitor
  • Gambrel
  • Gothic

14
Gable
15
Gambrel
16
Shed
17
Barn Interiors
  • Stalls
  • Doors
  • windows
  • Walls

18
Stall Size
  • Stall sizes vary according to the sex, age and
    size.
  • Here are the suggested sizes
  • Riding horse 12 x 12
  • Stallions 14 x 14
  • Weanlings 10 x 10
  • Yearlings 10 x 10
  • Isolation 12 x 12
  • Foaling 16 x 20

19
Doors
20
Windows
21
Walls
22
Barns Cont
  • Ventilation-Mandatory for preventing disease and
    alleviating heat in warm weathers.

23
Barns Floors
  • Floors
  • Free from dust
  • Able to absorb urine
  • Readily available
  • Inexpensive
  • Examples
  • Straw (Oat)
  • Pinewood Chips
  • Peat moss
  • Rice Peanut hulls

24
Flooring
25
Round Pens
  • Durable
  • Solid panel/ non-solid panel

26
Corrals
  • Covered/ uncovered

27
Arenas
  • Covered/ uncovered
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