[SIZE=12pt]Do you by chance have any "inside" pictures?? I'd like to see how you set it upMuch of stall size consideration is based on the size of your minis ---- and how much they will be in the stall.
I have several 6X8 and for my 27-28" minis they are wonderful. But, not for days on end!!! For the B size there are 8X10 or 8X12, etc......useful if a small one needs to be kept in for illness, etc., also. Mine are usually out in the fields with run-ins. But foaling, conditioning, etc., I use a stall. Mostly just overnight.
Be sure they can move easily, lay & roll without issue, have a "far end" for elimination and another area for food/water.
Also, if the stalls are permanent, think about resale value. Several of mine have a removeable center so I could have larger size within 10 minutes. The entire barn is build so that the stalls could be totally removed and re-mapped with no issue as to the soundness of the main structure....even totally left out and a huge open inside would be available. I put in foundation, blocked up, framed on that and trussed the structure. I do not have a loft. Have a separate hay building.
Just one comment on dividing those stalls. We did the same thing, at first! Then when the weather got really nasty we found out that 6 x 12 is really too tight to keep them in more than over night. Next we put up two 8 x 8 which according the to stall designers was supposed to be addequate for minis. Two of our horses are around 34" and we found it to be just too small an area for them to be comfortable in for more than overnight. It turned our little filly into a "stall walker". She's now in one of the old 12 x12s and still nearly "running" circles when she's kept inside.Thanks for the input guys. My stalls are 12x12 and we have a 12x24 foaling stall (for our big horses). I thought about turning a 12x12 stall into two mini stalls in a temporary way, so the mini stalls would be 6x12 basically. I provide daily turnout unless the weather is just terrrible!
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