Tack & Farm
Our Tack & Farm section features an Apparel section to find both practical and fashionable riding attire. If you ride English & Western or Race, many sources are available in the Tack section.
Building a barn? Need an architect for your equine dream home? Find one in Barns & Stalls.
Have a hungry horse? Of course you do! Find a place to buy your feed and tuck your horse in at night in the Bedding & Feed section. Looking for a place to keep your horse? You can find it in the Horse Boarding section. Keep your horse happy and beautiful with resources in our Grooming section.
Traveling? Find a Shipping company or Horse Sitting service if your horse is staying home!
Running and maintaining a farm or stable is a continuous effort, and to help find products or tools you need, please see our Equipment, Fencing and Management Tools sections.
Seeking Services? Find financial and tax expertise in our Accounting section. Companies who will help protect your investment are found in the Insurance section. For those who want legal advice about purchasing, liability, and other issues, please look at the Equine Law section to find an expert. Build and promote your business with teams from Marketing / Videography / Web Design.
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by Nikki Alvin-Smith
Investment in a new horse barn is a considerable capital expense. The building project provides much excitement and keen anticipation, but if you’re not careful, it can also cause you some major headaches. Issues can occur during the building phase or down the road, especially if products utilized are defective or the structure has not been properly constructed or set up on site.
So logically, you would expect that anyone purchasing a new horse barn would look carefully for a builder that offers a solid guarantee of their workmanship and provides full disclosure of the products that will be incorporated into the structure and provides the manufacturer’s warranty information.
Amazingly, many folks simply overlook the importance of the warranty altogether. The builder may offer a written estimate or quotation for the materials and labor, or an all-in price for the barn, but there is nothing in writing that evidences any kind of warranty.
Here’s a few things you most definitely should insist upon before you sign up for a new building. It doesn’t matter whether you are purchasing a stick-built structure on site or buying a modular barn. Please be smart and don’t overlook these factors:
- All materials and components of the building should be covered with a specified warranty period. This should include everything from roof shingles or metal roof to all fasteners and hardware.
- A full manufacturer’s warranty for specialist products such as trimboard and OSB board should be provided in detail.
- The contract should define what remedial action the building company will take should any product be defective and define how long their guarantee for free repair will last and also provide a timeline for repair or restitution.
- The building company should warranty all aspects of their craftsmanship in the structure, including any that they have subcontracted, with a detailed procedure for remedy.
As early as 1887, visible blue light was known to be the most effective part of the light spectrum to stimulate phototropism in plants. Recent research in the human medical field has shown that blue wavelength light can inhibit specific microbial growth. Taking this research into consideration, we conducted a trial on a group of two-year-old thoroughbreds in training.
The horses divided into two groups from the same yard. One group housed under a blue-enriched polychromatic LED light with gradual transitions at dawn and dusk and red light at night. Group two housed under traditional stable lighting provided by fluorescent tubes.
Read more: Equilume research shows Blue Light reduces bacterial and fungal growth
by Raquel Lynn
Most Stable Style readers would be happy to live in a barn. Of course when I discovered this project completed by General Assembly, I knew I had to share it here. They gave an old horse barn new life while preserving some of its original history. The end result is a barn that’s rustic, modern, and welcoming.
The barn belongs to actress Amanda Seyfried. The property also has a main house and second barn for horses and other animals. You can take a look at the main house featured on Elle Decor if you are would like. It’s beautifully decorated, but I couldn’t help but fall in love with this unique guest house.
Read more: An Old Horse Barn is Transformed into a Guest House
by Amanda Schiavo
Picture a horse grazing on a sunny day when she suddenly senses her owner’s bank account is perfectly balanced. This, the horse determines, is the opportune time to jam a leg through a fence and ring up a hefty vet bill.
Anyone who has ever owned a horse knows this feeling. There is even a meme about it.
There are roughly two million horse owners in the U.S., and 7.1 million people involved in the industry when including service providers, employees and volunteers, according to horse transportation company Equo. That means a potential client population larger than that of Chicago, Houston and Philadelphia combined with a very specific set of financial needs.
For a hobby such as equestrianism, coming up with a proper plan can be challenging when considering taxes, estate planning and expensive regulations related to taking show horses across national borders. But equestrians will tell you that once they fall in love with a horse, there’s no turning back.
The question becomes: How to build a plan for a horse enthusiast without scrimping on the client’s own long-term care, retirement, family and other needs?
Read more: Planning for a Hobby that Costs Almost as Much as Children
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