Horse Stables

Despite the tradition of keeping your horse outside, a growing number of horse owners are adding horse stables to their property. Many reasons exist as to why this is. To start, stables keep competition animals clean before competitions and events. See the Horse Mats. Living in a stable can also help out any sick or injured ponies or horses. An injured pony or horse's food and environment can easily be monitored from inside a stable.

Both the horse's needs and the horse owner's needs must be put into consideration when designing a horse stable. To begin the designing process, horse owners need to assess their needs and choose a style that fits them best. If you want to go with a traditional stable, choose one with either one, or several stables next to each other and a stable door facing a wide open yard. Because the ventilation is good and the structure is flexible, this design is usually a plus for most horse owners. Also, it is pretty easy to add on another box if you need one down the road.

Incorporating a horse stable into an existing structure on your property can save you both money and time during the building process. If you have a sound barn or building, stable suppliers and manufacturers often will have an easy stable kit, or they can come out and install the stable for you. Horse owners, no matter the type of stable they are putting in, should always keep ventilation in mind. Check out the EVA Stable Floor Matting. If there are not enough vents and windows, a barn can easily become stuffy. If you do not add in a better ventilation system, your horse can obtain some serious respiratory problems.

Remember to consider whether or not you will need to incorporate an area in the stable for item storage. A few convenient ideas for extra rooms in the stables are a tack room, a room for feed, and a restroom.

You should also consider whether or not you would like rubber matting on the floor, or if a plain concrete floor is fine. Along with providing some cushioning for the horse when it lies down, rubber matting can also help prevent blemishes like capped hocks. Horse owners will also save money on extra bedding when choosing rubber matting on the stable floor. Though there are pros to having a rubber mat floor, they are usually rather costly.

Though building a horse stable is often a horse owner's lifelong dream, it can also be quite a financial investment. A stable will also be a place that is a home for the horse, especially if they are going to be sleeping there every night. Look at the 100% Rubber Stable Mats. Your stable building project should have a lot time and thought put into it in order to make sure everyone is happy with the completed stable. If all the right things are taken into consideration, horse owners and horses will be left with safe and beautiful stables that will reward them over and over again.