Run-In shelter / tack room

[ottbnaturally1]

Hi - looking to get my horses home soon. I want to build a run in shelter - at least 12X24 and maybe a tack room on the side. Does anyone have any plans or pics they can share? I have been “searching” but can’t really find what I need.

Thanks!

[wsmoak]

I put up a Klene Pipe structure as a run-in a decade ago and I still love it. Mine is 12x24 but they can do different sizes and if you tell them you want to enclose a portion of it they will put the uprights and tabs in the right place for that.

https://www.klenepipe.com/run-in-horse-shelters/

Here are pictures of mine being assembled, and how I close it in with corral panels if I need it to be a stall.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/wsmoak/albums/72157624790649688

Mine is a Maverick (double walled) with a saltbox roof. If you ask, they will change the roof for you, but it’s not on the website that way.

Look at some of the photos of the Wrangler (which is a different, lighter style) and you can see how they can be enclosed.

This one in particular may give you some ideas:
https://www.klenepipe.com/wp-content/gallery-bank/original-images/o_1auap13i76pf5561doisod113np.jpg

[Bluey]

Don’t say where you are, but here are some to consider, or use the pictures to have a local welding shop make you something similar:

https://gobobpipe.com/horsesheds.htm

Portable sheds like these, well anchored down, may just do what you want.
Those are very versatile.
As your needs change, you can move them to another spot, sell them, add to them, etc.

[poltroon]

My run-ins are pipe buildings and work really great. There are several companies that make them around here. You can put wood panels in as you like and they can be customized for various options. They’re inexpensive, easy to site, and you can move them if you need to. Don’t forget to do site prep under them with enough gravel and then compact something better on top, and think about where the water will flow off the roof - that is going to be an area that makes mud unless you do something to prevent it.

This is a supplier I use: https://www.martinranchsupply.com/catalog/thrifty-stalls-0

There are lots of ways to consider your tack room, depending on what you want to keep in there and how clean you want it to be. One possibility is just to keep your tack in your trailer dressing room - then it’s always ready to go. Works well if your trailer parking is near your horses.

It can also be set up as another ‘bay’ of your run-in, or maybe as the back side of it. You can also get various standalone sheds of metal, plastic, or wood at the local home center that might be cheaper than building a permanent structure - depending on your need.

One thing I’d encourage you to add is covered space where you can tie and attend to a horse without any ‘friends’ coming in to visit. This might be done by adding a gate that lets you lock other horses out of the covered space, or by having an extra overhang area outside of your corral.

Last thing: design it so that someone can feed and water the horses without having to open any gates that would let horses out or have to go in with the horses. IE, if you’ll put feed in the run in, give yourself a window so you can throw the hay in without having to open the gate and walk inside. Not only will this save you a lot of time on busy days, but also it means it will be much safer when you have to have someone else feed for you, if you’re on vacation or hurt, and make it easier for a not-horseperson to do those things.

[Pehsness]

We put up one of these. ![](t’s one of those prefab pine sheds that are ubiquitous around here. They kinds of customized it for us by moving the double doors, putting a man door to the side and a sliding door across the back. I liked it because they built it on site, rather than being delived on a truck like all of the other shelters I was researching. Our property is small and hard to access with a flat bed so they wouldn’t work.

It worked great. It has since been given to the chickens and the horses have half of the shop (more for my needs than theirs). We subdivided it so the run in was 12x14 or so and I have a small 6x12 feed/tack room. Even though the horses don’t use it any more I don’t regret putting it up, it will never go to waste (garden shed, chickens, hay storage, feed storage… the uses are endless)

[IMG]http://bensheds.20m.com/images/high_low_new_1.jpg)

[fourfillies]

Near me (in southern PA) there a number of “Amish” built options (though many are resellers of the same product). Try Horizon Structures. Lots of options like @js linked.

Depending on your local weather adding an overhang to a shedrow can really improve your horse keeping quality of life.

[Palm_Beach]

@js

there are shed row barns like this, most are available already built and delivered ready to use but it is probably something that you could build if your are handy or know someone that is.

I’d put it up against a fence line and leave a little pass through so you don’t have to open a gate to go in. Also, horses tend to congregate there, so you may want to put down some gravel if it gets muddy.