I have a large barn that I currently use as an in and out. It’s heavily bedded, and at night we shut my one horse in there just for my peace of mine.
We’d like to get another horse, and therefore want to build two stalls in this barn. I’ve been looking at them for sale second hand, and they’re about 1500 each. This seems a little high, am I missing something?
Could I not drill posts and then nail wood to the inside making 3 1/2 walls and put a door in for the other half wall?
What have you done for DIY stalls, or did you buy them from someone cheaper than what I’m seeing?
All the barns I’ve kept horses in have just had stalls built out of lumber that are built into the structure when the place was built.
If you have a giant barn you could just get those fence panels that people use for paddocks and round pens and make two big round pens inside the barn.
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Yes, of course you do stick-built stalls. There’s tons of pix online of various ones people have built. When I bought my property my barn had five stalls built with 2"x10" lumber on the support posts. We built three more stalls in the lean-to off the back.
$1500+ for prefab stalls, even used, sounds about right.
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Yes, you can sink posts and make your own stalls. That’s what I did. We had the pole barn built, but just the external shell. I drilled holes for 4x6’s and built half walls with rough cut 2" x 12" poplar.
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Or you could buy pipe panels and make your own stalls for a lot less money. They are easily moved or re-arranged and you can put heavy 3/4” plywood part way up the stalls so the horses can’t get their legs thru them.
The stall gates also have wood attached, part way up.
My horses have been in that setup for nearly 17 years without incident. At one point I had four horses side-by-side without issue. They bickered once in awhile but nobody was stupid enough to think about rearing up at their neighbors - they were all geldings.
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Using high quality corral panels/round pen panels and a gate panel is the cheapest way to build an easily movable stall. You will need to find a method to attach it to the posts in your barn-- they do make metal binders for this, or you can McGyver them together at the hardware store. For my temporary (ha!) third stall, we used a 12 foot “gate panel” and a 12 foot round pen panel for the side opposite the existing stall, and the gate panel for the front. I think we used some sor t of metal pipe attachment we found at a hardware store that we screwed into the big 6x6 posts on our back wall to hold the panel in place. We then used heavy plywood to line the interior of the panels to avoid horse feet/legs going through the panels. We actually drilled holes in the plywood and used heavy duty zip ties for the initial emergency build of this set up. I’m pretty sure one set is still there 4 years later! Super easy and totally movable.
Ok thanks everyone- I will update you with whatever I finally decide to do.
Complete side note: made the mare a bigger paddock on the weekend and she’s in heaven. I’ve never put up fencing before and I had a blast- and I had my family helping and provided them beer and pizza.
Next weeked: stall wars! Me vs. stalls
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