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Here's my barn at my family's vacation house in Vermont. It's a really old modified dairy barn, soon to be painted red with white trim, and we will be making changes to make it suitable for horses over the years.

ETA: We have already gotten rid of all the weeds surrounding the barn, mowed the pasture, got rid of the saplings encroaching on the pasture, cleaned out the dairy of all the trash, and then stacked random rocks into huge towers onto a boulder :)
 

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Mine is tiny.

4x12 tack room.. and thats all the space we have for hay and grain also. With 8x12 stall on left and 8x12 tractor storage on right


Bad picture but this is the outside.. This was supposed to only be a pic of Casey.. So..
 
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I love old barns! Please share updates with us as you do work on it Almond, I would love to see it.

Here's some of my boring barn, it's old but not old enough to be cool lol!
(pic was of new strawberry bed and worn out fence that just got replaced :wink:) But the front part is the stall barn w/12 stalls, back is the indoor and also has a foaling stall in it.
Land lot Grass Fence Landscape Pasture


Horse Mammal Vertebrate Colt Pasture

Stalls we built ourselves many years ago.
Property Building Shed Stable Barn


Don't have any other pics on my pc, I have a good sized tack & feed room at the front of the stall barn and an indoor wash rack next to it.
 
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I love seeing pictures of barns! We started from bottom last year when we brought our horses home. Old barn, but we put 2 stalls and a tack room in there...Nothing fancy at all, and still working on making it more function..but I love it! This is a great link, gives me some good ideas :)
 
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This is our barn that we just had built last January (the other, that had been standing for ~30 years, we lost to fire).

Some of these pictures were taken at different times so in some of them, the panels are set up differently. This is much more efficient than the old one. I don't show horses so I don't have a need for 20 box stalls. Instead, we opted for the open south side and panel horse runs. Easier to care for, easier to clean, more room for the horses to move around, etc. Plus, if we need to, we can move them, make them bigger/smaller, and arrange them however we need or want to.

This one also shows the 13x13 tack room that Dad and I built ourselves.






 
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Well, not too much progress on the barn yet. The windows, especially the ones in the back, are going to need a lot of TLC. The wood underneath it and some above it is rotten, so we will need to replace the windows and windowsills completely. That is why we are planning on putting less, but larger windows in, that my dad saved from a job of his.
The lady who was going to put horses on our property decided not to, her son got in a bad car accident, so she didn't have time to fence in the pasture. Instead she put them on a neighbors already fenced in pasture.
However, our pasture is growing beautiful grass! It's a bit swampy in places, but we assume that will go away a bit by summer. I'll have to get pictures later!
 
#17 ·
Pish, you want redneck? I'll give you redneck!

My barns, one of which is just a converted garage with fence gates for stall gates, and the other is a shed with the same type of gate. And to add a little more panache, note the old, beat up horse trailer! :-p
 

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Pish, you want redneck? I'll give you redneck!
I'll beat you, SR! Mine is Amish! (the last one is the hay rack my dad built himself and very proud of it :) )
 

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#20 ·
Awesome barns everyone! I wish I could have a new barn! haha

The lady will be putting horses on the property this weekend.. we're gonna have a meeting and then put the fence up..
 
#22 ·
I don't think the stable looks redneck.. although I must admit the hay rack does :)
 
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Lol! It was that winter (couple years back), when Maryland beat all known records. Several feet in not time. I had to dig a path from my back door to the barn and around the barn, so I could let horses out. And then around that hay rack, so they could normally stand and eat. Lots of human labor! :wink:
 
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No, I think that I win the hill-billy contest ;) ours arent even actual stalls! Our horses all live out in the pasture, but these are our quarentine pens. There are six of them, and as you can see- we store our trackless train, tractor, and wood in it when they aren't being used XD Each 'stall' has a 15x30 foot run though, which is nice.

(its to the right and behind the girl and Sparkie)


Then theres our deck and 'tack room' which is actually just a very large shipping container that we built hooks and saddle racks onto ;) there a feed container in the back too, behind the playset.


Then theres our riding arena:
 
#28 ·
Definitely very fortunate to keep my quarter pony and minis here! It is an Amish modular barn. It was awesome watching them bring it in... They brought it in one half at a time on this huge trailer with lots of motorized wheels. :) Once it was set and secured to the foundation, the Amish builders came out and did the roof and doors. Love it!
 

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#29 ·
Here's mine...

It used to be 30' x 40' with 2 stalls and a run in. Well, we added another 10' off the front for 2 larger stalls and a tack room. Then added the porch part as well. We had 6 stalls in here at once, and then we didn't have 6 horses anymore so we took out the 2 larger ones and made it into a hay storage section. It works out well for us. It's not a top A rated barn but I like it and the horses love it. It used to be an ugly pale/rusty blue but my dad and I resided it last year to the hunter green to go with our "color theme" Our house is dark wooden log with a green roof. My dad had a new pole barn constructed 2 years ago and had done with green and white. And then it just looked bad with the green and blue out back so we redid the horse barn. LoL. You can see the pole barn in a few of the pictures. That's my dad's play area/workshop/paint shop/leave the women alone shop. ;-) I LOVE the big sliding doors, makes it very easy to drive through with the hay wagon.
 

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