Stables: A Safe Haven

The stables serve as our horses’ home and haven.  It is where they should relax, feel comforted and safe.  But, how can they feel relaxed if there are trash and stacks and harmful things everywhere in their safe place?  Then make sure to know how to keep your horses’ stables safe and clean by following these tips.

Keep water hoses rolled up and away from the path. PHOTO: Potterybarn

As required, water hoses should be found anywhere accessible for your horses but you do not forget to keep them rolled up.  Unattended hoses that are unrolled can cause very unpleasant accidents you can imagine.  They can be easily dragged by the horses (or even humans) that can trip them and it is really dangerous.  Keeping these hoses by rolling them and placing them at a high level can keep our horses from tripping on it and it makes our stables appear nicer.

Keep stable aisles clean. PHOTO: Laura Demyen

After all the activity and it’s time for everyone to rest, do not forget to clean the stable aisles.  What you do is rake the hays and other things off the way.  This way, tiny objects that might harm one’s foot is being removed from vicinity.  When you do this, your stable is safer for your horses plus it will look a lot neater and cleaner. 

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Keep the trash where they should be. PHOTO: RealSimple

To a more horse and environment friendly stable do place trash cans to most of the stable corners.  This way, whenever you finish doing something and needs to dispose materials that you do not want scattering around an accessible trash can is there to save your day. 

Keep feed in a locked room. PHOTO: Etsy

Another thing to remember is to provide rooms that have doors and door locks.  Provide a different room for your equipment and tools for instance.  This way, they will not be placed standing behind the stable doors, or just beside the horses’ area, because this is very dangerous to their reach.  Also, provide a different room for their food, just like a lock feed room.  This way, they will not get tempted looking at the feeds, else if there are accidents like horses getting out they will not rummaged through the feeds and might get sick of eating too much.

Introduce horses and other pets gradually. PHOTO: Ashley Childs

Do not allow other pets to enter the stable barn if you are not quite sure that both animals are at ease with each other, though it is much safer to not bring any other pets in the stable at all.  Your horses can encounter other animals outside the barn, but not in there to prevent any fuss for all the other horses.  Chances are the other pets might startle the horses and create problems. 

A stable should be a No Smoking area. PHOTO: L Verbeek

Finally, stables are full of hays and other easily inflammable materials so never allow anyone, including yourself to do smoking somewhere near the area.  Just slight and flickers of light can create large fire that can rapidly spread in places like in the stables.