[TinyMiteVillage]

Lets see those pics of anything handy for minis. Water tubs, shelters, stalls, gates, feeders, just anything...............

Anything that someone else might be able to use. Let's share.........

[Becky]

Here's a picture of the trailer dividers in my trailer. This is a 3 horse slant load gooseneck trailer. It went back to the factory after I purchased it 2 years ago to be retrofitted with miniature dividers. It will hold 8 miniatures. The dividers swing on the head side and have a drop down pin on the butt side. They work great!


Somewhere I have pictures of the stalls in my show barn. Looking for those now......

[minimule]

These are my barns;

Broodmares. These are each a kit we bought from Mueller Inc. They come with everything you need to make the little shed. The panels we designed and built ourselves.


These are the barns everyone else lives in. We also bought all the materials from Mueller, designed them and built them.


An easy feeder.....muck bucket for hay. I tied a carbiner to the fence and hook it to one of the ropes on the bucket. For water buckets, we use some molasses containers we buy at one of the feedstores here. They are black and heavy duty.

[Relic]

The handiest thing we've found is the cattle feeders they are great year round and can be used for pebbles snacks and hay easy for them to eat out of but they can't get feet in to spread pebbles around all over the place. Just love the things they have drainage holes and are super easy to keep clean. Also makes a great dog bed for a nap when filled with hay.

[AppyLover2]

Great post. Please keep the pictures/ideas coming.

[mizbeth]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh nice Shawna! I recognize that one white ear and one dark ear!

I also use those cattle feeders. I've had mine for four years now and they still look new. I bought mine at Tractor Supply for 85.00, now I noticed they are 97.00.

Worth every dime. I have some mares that stand in them when it is time to feed with their front feet, or pound in them at feeding time to tell me to hurry up!

B

[Jill]

Well, the only kind of horses we've ever kept at home have been minis, so all our "stuff" is set up for mini size horses, but none of it is very creative.

Our two little barns have stalls that are "mini" size 8x12 w/ pipe gate doors:

Our run-in sheds are an 18' x 21' three sided metal carport that we lined with wood:

and a 12' x 16' normal kind of wooden run in shed (8' tall at the highest part)

Our round pen is "mini" size being about 40':

I have a smallish pen w/ an 8' x 8' stall I can use for sick horses or to confine one when need be. It shares fences with one horse lot, the goat lot, and our dog kennel. Actually, I put our two "big" dogs (lab x chow and blue merle collie) in this small pen with the gate to the kennel left open so they can run in either fenced area, go in the 8x8 stall, and into the stall H made for them in the storage shed, which is one side of the dog kennel.

Also, our fencing is "mini" safe in that we've used cattle panels on oak posts for most of it, and some of it is still heavy guage field fencing on oak posts. We found that the lighter guage field fencing, even though we stretched it TIGHT did not really hold up well. I like this kind of fencing because it keeps out most dogs (not that I've seen any strays, but still...)

For feeding the horses, we have 8 quart flat back buckets on the fence and in the stalls. For watering, we have 55 gallon long / low troughs and one 25 gallon low trough for warm weather and for winter time, we have 4 16 gallon blue electric heated water containers that look like muck buckets.

This post has been edited by Jill: 05 December 2005 - 09:14 AM

[Relic]

The other thing we're happy with is how the 10 stallions are seperated from the mares. They each have a hut in their own large paddock that can be closed of for winter and all have big fields attatched for summer. All the paddocks are seperated by either 10' or 5 foot ally's that way no one bothers the wheel barrow when l go through at feeding time and everything is close to the barn and l can see them all from the house. They can see and talk to everyone but are nicely spaced so no fighting or injuries. We call it stallion ally and it has sucker rod for fencing so no upkeep except for the posts.

[Relic]

And one more of the mare condo behind the barn right by their round bales and large field where they are for the winter which l can see from the family room. l need to see everyone from the house so this took a lot of thought and planning and we didn't want it to look to stupid

[Bluerocket]

I love the stalls we made in our barn -- so one more time I am posting the link to the webpage where you can see the photos.

Our New Stalls

The photos are too large to link into this thread.

JJay