From small to large, there are many types of farm buildings available. These include farm stores, farm and machine storage, general use, livestock, dairy, beef and more. Quality horse buildings can provide your horses with a safe and beautiful haven. Before making a final decision, consider pre-built buildings for your farm or equestrian needs. Find a company that has built a reputation for planning and building modern, safe, functional and efficient equine facilities.

Here are 8 ways a pre-engineered metal building can provide a well-designed horse barn to help you save time, money, and effort:

1. Organize. Plan to put all useful but unattractive features, like your manure bin, out of sight of your house and area, but still convenient for the barn. You can also place your stable delivery area where it’s less visible and relocate your delivery parking lot and stable where they don’t mix with horse traffic. Build a “utility room” to store cleaning and cleaning tools separately from feed, tack and other equipment.

2. Save time – Reduce labor costs! With a well-designed barn, you can eliminate a step for every job done: feeding, basting, filling water buckets, accessing medicine. For example, if you normally take 200 paces per hour caring for your horses, and your new design cuts them down to 100 paces, then you have saved time by reducing walking distance. Even better, you’ve also lowered your “labor costs” by accounting for actual time and money for hired helpers.

3. Minimize clutter. Identify all possible sources of clutter and plan your layout to limit that clutter. In a four stall or smaller center alley barn, for example, group stalls together; That way, when you throw out trash, the mess stays at your end of the barn. For an area with more than four stalls, place tack rooms and feed troughs in the middle; saves steps and keeps center clutter-free.) Allow basting and feed rooms to be separate, as clean basting hanging in a feed room will collect dust quickly.

4. Monitor the airflow. Good airflow is crucial to your horse’s health.

5. Bring on the light. Good lighting makes everything more pleasant. Not to mention, the better lit a horse stable is, the easier it will be to work in and the fewer flies will congregate in it.

6. Save with windows and skylights. The more you use natural light, the lower your electricity bill will be. (Note: Most skylight “leaks” are actually accumulated condensation. Avoid this by insulating the roof or covering it with plywood. Not recommended where horses will be exposed to unrelenting sunlight in hot weather; possible)

7. Preserve expensive horse medications. Splurge on a mini-fridge (about $140), it’ll pay for itself quickly and save expensive medications from spoiling. If there is space, another sink allows you to mix medicines, wash dishes, etc.

8. Stay on the code. Installing a toilet in your barn is not a big expense. State law may require a bathroom if you hire helpers. Even if it isn’t, it saves you steps and minimizes clutter by not dragging mud and dirt into your home.