Horsekeeping on a Small Acreage: Designing and Managing Your Equine Facilities
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Keeping your own horses requires dedication, hard work, and a sincere interest in the well-being of your animals. This practical guide shows you how to design efficient facilities and establish effective maintenance routines so that your horses can stay happy, healthy, and safe on even the smallest plots of land. Offering expert advice on barn designs, fencing options, and pasture management, Cherry Hill stresses the importance of understanding horse behavior and environmentally responsible land stewardship as integral aspects of a pleasurable and rewarding horsekeeping experience.
Publisher : Storey Publishing, LLC
Publication date : March 1, 2005
Edition : 2nd Revised ed.
Language : English
Print length : 308 pages
ISBN-10 : 158017535X
ISBN-13 : 978-1580175357
Item Weight : 2.55 pounds
Dimensions : 8.75 x 0.69 x 10.75 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #222,017 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #61 in Outdoor & Recreational Area Gardening #79 in Biology of Horses #143 in Animal Husbandry (Books)
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Customers find this book informative and well-organized, with stunning pictures and clear, easy-to-follow content. They appreciate its comprehensive coverage of horse ownership, with one customer noting it covers all aspects of horse keeping, while another mentions how it helps in making decisions. The book receives positive feedback for its layout, with one customer highlighting how it goes through everything from fencing to barn layouts, and customers consider it well worth the money.
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K. Baylis –
Incredibly comprehensive and well written by an experienced author
A really satisfying book to have in your hands; glossy, thick, quality, heavy. Everything I was expecting and probably more. I have recently leased eight acres of land to graze my two horses on, and I am learning as I go at how to best manage that land. I am considering it practice as we save up for our own 3-5 acre property. With that in mind, I purchased this book to get advice from someone experienced with managing smaller properties.The content within this book is better than I imagined. It has everything from budget templates, sample costing, barn diagrams and layouts, beautiful huge colour pictures with captions and descriptions, easy to read text written in a way that anyone can understand. My personal favorites are the sample land layouts; they provide a before and after diagram of what a property looks like (for example eight acres with just a house and garage on it), and then it proposes the changes to best suit that property (where paddocks could be fenced, gravel paths or driveways laid, a barn or stables placed, an arena, etc) to best utilise that particular land. It offers several different types, all displaying ways to use each property to their best advantage. This book is a pot of gold!Some things are total common sense about horse keeping, and others are little nuggets that I hadn’t even thought of but that make so much sense. If you even get just a handful of ideas out of this book, it is still worth the purchase, and it’s a real page turner. When I got it, I couldn’t stop turning the pages. The pictures are stunning, they offer solutions for properties in winter when controlling mud or snow, and they offer solutions for just about anything you need to know about keeping horses, whether they be in pasture full time, or in stables, or in yards. The author has tried to include everything her knowledge base has given her, and it is much more than I ever expected or I had even thought about. An extremely good buy, even for those just dreaming of having a property later in life, it is great to skim through and imagine all the possibilities :o)
Western WA Arab owner –
Setting up your own horse place
I had been aware of Cherry Hill’s book for a long while. Looking back over the last couple of years since I bought my own small acreage, I should have gotten it sooner for sure. There are so many money pitfalls and I have already fallen into some of them. The book is definitely the ideal and one can drop a ton of money trying to be a perfectionist. But, descriptions of items like footing, fencing, design of stalls and turn-out areas are well written and you don’t want to skimp or you will end up being sorry and having to revisit them. It’s extremely important to take into consideration your climate and worst case scenarios: flooding, fire, snow, major storms… Planning ahead when you are starting out is just smart and this book can help. Don’t forget your local government and complying with regs. (You can also tap your county extension agent for help.) Actually, the list of stuff to be done is pretty endless. I am in the middle of it all right now and had already completed some of the items on my to-do list, but even so, the book is very helpful and lays it all out. Having always boarded my horses, there sure are a lot of details to learn and become conversant with as the sole provider of all the stuff you have taken for granted. Good luck
Matthew Mize –
Iâm a horse owner and still found this helpful!
Even though I own a horse I bought this book to just have a nice read. I gotta say she brings up some good points on care and more than anything some great horse facility plans! (Probably the part I used, really).Love this book, if you need to learn how to care and budget and build facilities for horses this is the book for you. But please⦠go to a place that has horses and learn how to work with them before you buy one.
Dogs & Horses –
Easy to understand ideas that do work.
I’ve been keeping horses for 35 years in a variety of circumstances – boarding, large open ranch with hundreds of acres, smaller farm set up, and on an urban lot. We just purchased a place with 7 acres in town that requires the horse facilities be built from scratch.This book has definitely helped me figure out the best layout for multiple, rotational paddocks. Mostly though, it has been useful in figuring out how to best protect the existing spring fed creek from unintended waste runoff. I would suggest all horse owners read this and especially the first timers. It’s easier & less expensive to set up your place correctly at the start rather than fix big problems later.
Deborah Shaw –
Informative book.
This book is easy to understand and is laid out nicely. Answers a lot of the questions I had and covered some I wasnât await of.
welshgirl –
Information for everyone
Wonderful book full of information for new or seasoned horse people. She thinks of all the little tiny details that might get overlooked but youâll be glad you thought of it later. Some of the information is a little dated, but the majority of the information remains relevant no matter what year it is. Pros and cons of different materials and set ups, size requirements, etc. Highly recommend. She truly has her horsesâ safety, health and welfare as her top priority.
Paul Hosse –
No Horsefeathers Here!
Ok, I’ll admit that dispite living in Kentucky’s famed bluegrass country, I know next to nothing about horses. Fortunately, I didn’t need too since this book was purchased for my niece, who is majoring in Animal and Human Therapy in college. She had previewed this and dozens of other related books; looking for a through and easily understandable “how to” book. Specifically, she wanted something that she could take anywhere and would transfer what she read into workable gameplan. This book, she said, fit the bill to a tee.When the book arrived, I couldn’t help but rummage through it. I was impressed with the easy to understand material, complete with detailed diagrams and excellent color photos. This is a terrific book for the novice all the way up to the professional. A strong recommendation for anyone interested in keeping horses on a small budget and small acreage.
Nicosebi –
Great book with lots of great ideas for the small acreage horse owner.
Amy Katchur –
We recently purchased our new property that is mostly set up for horses and I am looking to research as much as possibly before having horses on our property.This book covers absolutely everything you can think of and more about managing horses on an acreage. I highly recommend this book!
Angela –
Great book, clear and comprehensive. Is is allowing me to be confident in my desire to have horses on my own property. Great reference.
stephanie laakso –
I bought this book because I am taking a course in Equine Science Diploma from Guelph University Online. Otherwise the book is for very basic or beginner and you don’t learn many interesting or new things that make you consider buying this book. dont get me wrong! This book is written clearly and common sense like, but it does have those basic things we can all learn from and base our horse knowledge off of.
Bob Caldwell –
It was what I expected