These Barn Renovations Can Help You Get Chores Done Faster
Whether you have your horses at home or are running a boarding barn, barn chores can quickly eat into your day. Your chores can limit the time that you’re able to spend riding, training, or simply enjoying your horses. But a few strategic barn renovations and improvements can save you significant time. By streamlining your barn chores, you can get them done faster, free up some time in your day, and even save on paid barn staff hours.
Install Horse Stall Mattresses
The StableComfort Horse Stall Mattress is a wall-to-wall mat system for your horse stalls. This mattress system not only contributes to your horse’s comfort, but can also save you significant time and effort on stall cleaning.
Since the mattress is filled with rubber crumbs, it helps absorb shock while keeping your horse comfortable. It’s topped with a rubber-coated waterproof one-piece cover, so stall cleaning is very easy and there are no stall mat seams to navigate.
The entire StableComfort Horse Stall Mattress system is equivalent to four to six inches of bedding, so you can reduce your bedding volume to save on bedding costs. With less bedding, the stall is easier to clean, and you can spend less time buying bedding and bedding up your stalls, too.
To see the complete installation process of the Stall Mattress and get a better understanding of its setup, click here to watch the video.
Create Horse Stall Runs
Depending on your stable’s layout, you may be able to install Barn Dutch Doors and create runs directly off of each of your stalls. Our steel Dutch Doors are built to last and can be built to any size, ensuring they’ll fit your barn. There are also many other custom upgrades available, including a tempered glass in-fill and an arched design, so you can truly make these doors your own.
With the Dutch Doors installed, you can create individual stall runs that allow your horses to come and go freely. With the option for your horses to spend more time outdoors than in stalls, you can reduce messy stalls and save time on stall cleaning.
Some barn owners even choose to connect these smaller individual runs to larger paddocks. You can use the runs to easily turn out horses each morning, cutting down on the time you spend walking each horse out to their larger turnouts. This time-saving layout can be ideal for busy, larger barns if you want to maximize turnout time for a larger number of horses.
Install Automatic Waterers
Automatic waterers can be an excellent way to reduce the time you spend hauling water buckets or hoses each day. These waterers streamline the process of caring for your horses and can also help ensure that your horses have a continuous supply of water. Heated waterers mean you don’t have to worry about dealing with stock tank and bucket heaters or breaking open ice when temperatures drop below freezing.
There’s another important benefit to automatic waterers, too: They can help keep your horse’s healthy. By giving your horse access to clean water, you can encourage them to drink more. Increased hydration may help to prevent serious health issues like impaction colic.
Consider installing automatic waters in your horse’s stalls as well as in turnouts to save yourself time on your daily barn chores.
Carefully Choose Barn Aisle Flooring
The type of flooring you choose for your barn aisle and grooming stalls can affect how easy your daily cleanup process is. Rough concrete surfaces are notoriously difficult to thoroughly sweep, and they’re also slick, which can contribute to potential horse and handler slips and falls.
A surface like Rubber Interlocking Stall Mats makes for easier cleanup and a safer grooming stall or barn aisle. Interlocking horse stall mats are highly durable and deliver excellent shock absorption and traction. They’re suitable for high-traffic areas, like barn aisles, and can be easily swept clean after you’ve cleaned stalls.
For an impressive aesthetic with easy cleanup and top durability, consider using Rubber Pavers for Horse Barns, instead. These rubber pavers offer the look of brick with enhanced slip-resistance and durability. They can even help control bacteria, making them an ideal choice for your barn aisle, grooming stalls, wash stalls, and more. These rubber pavers are easy to maintain, and since they fit together tightly, they’re easy to sweep to save you time.
Invest in Stall Fronts for Easy Feed Access
Your choice of horse stall fronts plays a role in how easily you can feed your horses. Many traditional stall fronts require you to open the stall door and go into the stall to access your horse’s feed tub. At American Stalls, we can customize our sliding stall fronts to include a feed hole opening or even a grilled feed door that allows you to feed your horses without ever having to step into the stall.
There are plenty of other reasons to choose sliding stall fronts from American Stalls, too. We typically use 14-gauge United States steel for these sliding stall doors, ensuring the strength and durability they need for years of use in your horse barn. Our stall door track systems have a self-cleaning design to prevent any buildup. That track system is paired with heavy-duty Delrin trolley balls to keep the doors sliding smoothly for years. The stall doors are available with many design options, and you can add on upgrades like vented mesh, custom yokes, and more to custom design the stall fronts for the exact look and performance you want for your barn.
Contact American Stalls Today
If you’re tired of spending unnecessary time on your barn chores, we can help. Whether you’re ready to order new stall fronts or want to explore new barn aisle flooring options, we’re happy to help you plan barn renovations to save time on your barn chores. Contact us today at (855) 957-8255 or email us at sales@americanstalls.com to schedule a sales and design consultation.
