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How to Bring your Horse and Equestrian Facilities into the Backyard

Maybe you’d really like to step outside the house to be with your horses. Is it time to build some backyard equestrian facilities? Constructing a small pole building near your home may be a cost-effective move. And wouldn’t it be nice to have friends over to ride and socialize?

Like many horse lovers, you’d like convenience. What is an easy way to make it happen? Find a one-stop builder/designer to build you some great equestrian facilities. Make the transition to a new barn stress-free for your horse, too, by using some equestrian management techniques to ensure he make a smooth transition to the new environment.

Hire a Start-To-Finish Pole Barn Builder

Make it easy on yourself. Sit down with an experienced builder with custom horse barns, you will find out how easy it can be to add a picturesque outbuilding in the backyard. Forget the fragile lean-to you see down the road. Go for a durable barn that will last for decades and add significant value to your property. Think about good-looking stalls and paddocks, tack room, wash bay, and hay storage – and a safe and healthy environment.

One company in central Colorado goes the extra mile to help bring your horses home. Looking fmr metal or steel buildings for sale? From engineering to architecture and design to craftsmanship, your choice of barn builder should offer you resources give confidence. Warranties, short timelines, cost-effective features, and impeccable professional expertise should be part of the package for equine barns.

How to Safely House Horses Near the Family

Owning horses in Colorado brings a bundle of joy. Keeping horses near children provides a great way to teach skills and responsibility. Yes, working with horses will build their confidence and instill pride in achievement, but safety is the most important ingredient to success.

Your children need to learn safety from day one. Begin with a generous-sized respect for potential dangers around horses. Meet with the family to create a set of rules that everyone will follow. They need to know exactly why each rule is established. Tack the list up on the wall of your new barn.

Moving the Horses

Moving your horses to a new barn offers a time to bond with your horses and acclimate the horse to the new barn and lifestyle. Something during construction of your backyard barn, tell the current boarding stables of your plans and start planning for that smooth transition. Try to match the routine the horse had at other stables to keep things as familiar as possible. Plan to feed and walk each horse at the familiar time.

When it comes time to move, carefully introduce the horses to every aspect of their new home. They need to get acclimated to the smells and sounds a little at a time. Show off the new grooming area, the new wash rack, and the boundaries of the property, etc.

Food and Water

On arrival at the new barn, put the horses into their stalls with some hay and water for a few hours. Water can present a challenge and horses often do not like strange water. If they do not drink, then they may suffer from dehydration which can also cause colic. Regular show riders put sugar in the water for several days before moving and slowly reduce the amount of sugar after the move.

Be sure to bring familiar feed to the new barn. If you change the horse’s diet, do it gradually over a period of a week. For the first few days, replace a small amount of the old feed with an equal amount of the new feed. Slowly increase the proportion of new feed over the course of a week or two. This helps reduce chances of colic.

Colorado Horse Barn Builders

For information about Colorado pole buildings and equestrian facilities, contact Sapphire Construction, Inc. at (303) 619-7213. Our team custom designs each building using high-quality, engineer-tested materials from Lester Buildings.