Tallyho,
Sorry if I already asked you this, but do you have any pictures or links of the places you keep your horses when you travel? Jim Brown mentioned earlier that there are very few places for those of you who travel with horses to stay, and I've decided to build a horse hotel and set aside RV sites next to it for that purpose. Right now I'm thinking of building four stalls with the ability to add two more if there is a demand for it.
I've done some searching online and seen what a few look like, but the more I can learn, the better job I can do. Pictures or links to websites are the best and easiest for me to understand, but anything else you can add would be greatly appreciated. Just things you look for or require for your animals. I'm so ignorant on this that I don't even know what to ask. Can horses share the same water bowl after another horse has been in the stall? Do you bring your own food? How do you feed them? Do you just put it on the ground? or is there a table or something to feed them from? Is this something I should plan on putting into the stalls? or is it something you carry with you?
My current plan is to have the owners of the horses park in a site close to the horse hotel. There will be one site right next to it, then the others will be next to each other away from it. They will park in there RV space and walk there horses to the horse hotel. The hotel will have four stalls that I'm thinking will be ten feet wide and 20 to 30 feet long. I'm usure of that right now. I can go even longer, but not sure if there's any advantage to making them bigger or not. There will be a cover over part of the pen that will be around 10 feet or more. Still don't know what's best there either. Two stalls will be side by side, then there will be an open area under the roof, and then two more stalls facing the oposite direction. Basically a simple covered roof with a walkway in the middle and two stalls on both sides.
Is it OK for horses that don't know each other to have a shared fence to seperate them? I don't want to put a ton of money into this, just build it strong out of welded pipe so they can't hurt themselves, but will be totally bullet proof. No mesh, no wire, just 4 rails of welded pipe that will be five feet tall and each rail at one foot spacings.
Thanks,
Eddie