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Very nice horse barns

I was rooting around world of show jumping and I found these two places that took my breath away.

Les Laaurentides:
http://www.leslaurentides.fr/ecurie/en/index.php

and

Reitsportanlage:

http://www.reitsportanlage-dagobertshausen.com/en/centre/picture-gallery

Yes please, I’ll take this:
http://www.reitsportanlage-dagobertshausen.com/images/impressionen/Ausstattung_8.jpg

Both in their own right are just fantastic plus it gives me ideas of what I could build on a smaller scale once I get land to build a farm. I love the Solarium and If anybody here has used it, what do you think about it.

drools on computer

I have nothing else to add :smiley:

We have a solarium at our barn. It’s relatively new but the horses are enjoying it. Helps warm their backs up on cooler mornings and also is great to help prevent muscle soreness after a ride. We use it in conjunction with a VitaFloor.

Thank you for making me sad today. Lol

Those barns are amazing!

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We have a solarium at our barn. It’s relatively new but the horses are enjoying it. Helps warm their backs up on cooler mornings and also is great to help prevent muscle soreness after a ride. We use it in conjunction with a VitaFloor.[/QUOTE]

Thank you! I looked up the Vitafloor and the stall model looks fantastic.

As long as there is ample turnout for the horses along with those amenities, I’ll take 2, please :slight_smile:

I do find that sometimes you have these amazeballs barns but they are built for the delicate flower show horse that never goes out. So there is no turnout.

And hacking. I like to hack. Trails would make this 100% perfect.

LOL I have such unreasonable standards

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As long as there is ample turnout for the horses along with those amenities, I’ll take 2, please :slight_smile:

I do find that sometimes you have these amazeballs barns but they are built for the delicate flower show horse that never goes out. So there is no turnout.

And hacking. I like to hack. Trails would make this 100% perfect.

LOL I have such unreasonable standards[/QUOTE]

They both have turn out. Les Laurentides: With over 400 hectares of private forest, the Laurentides offers a dream setting for hacking out, on all types of ground, sand, tarmac, or earth, as well as providing excellent hill training trails.

We need this here in the USA

http://www.leslaurentides.fr/ecurie/en/extra_facilities.php

In order to reassure our clients as to their horse’s wellbeing, we also provide individual cameras for each box which can be consulted via a smartphone app, thus enabling owners to check on their horses at any hour of the day or night. :smiley:

Wonder what board costs… You know when it says call for info you’ve hit upper four figures and higher :eek:

Well, today I spent more time with my shovel in hand, trying to undo my own ‘great dirt work’ that flooded my barn. Now I always look at gutters on barns first.:winkgrin: I’m seriously coveting me some good gutters.

That paragraph describes a lot of things, not one of which is a turn out field.

The weird thing can be that at our barn in Belgium we had smallish maybe one acre turn out paddocks but they had grass and we used so much that they ultimately had to be assigned or certain grooms would put all of their horses out leaving no room for the rest of our horses.

Whereas here in Holland we have very large, very grassy paddocks, really they’re probably 2-3 acre fields and our horses really never go out at all this time of year. I have one horse that goes out in a very small paddock right in front of my barn maybe a couple times a week, weather permitting, as it did today.

I actually think you’d find prices much more reasonable than in the US.

Our boxes in Belgium at a nice yard of a former national team rider with multiple solaria, wash racks, eurocizer, indoor, outdoor, derby field, private grass paddocks, forest access, laundry, lorry parking, was 350 a dry stall. This included unlimited hay and straw. Full care was 450. This is pretty average. While these ultra chic beautiful barns are more, they aren’t going to hit the stratosphere as they would in the states because there are lots and lots of nice barns and Europeans on average are just not going to spend that much.

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That paragraph describes a lot of things, not one of which is a turn out field.[/QUOTE]

http://www.leslaurentides.fr/ecurie/en/extra_facilities.php

Eighteen grass paddocks, with electric and post and rail fencing as well as water troughs

My friedns husband built a bar in the viewing gallery of her indoor, which he also built. These places are really nice, but do any of them have a kegerator?

This company builds beautiful barns!
Love their barns :slight_smile:
http://www.kingbarns.com/Our_Company_H8BI.html

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My friedns husband built a bar in the viewing gallery of her indoor, which he also built. These places are really nice, but do any of them have a kegerator?[/QUOTE]

Yes our viewing room has a bar with taps in addition to a vending machine featuring bottles of beer and full size bottles of wine and champagne. Cause any time is a time to celebrate :wink:

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http://www.leslaurentides.fr/ecurie/en/extra_facilities.php

Eighteen grass paddocks, with electric and post and rail fencing as well as water troughs[/QUOTE]

It doesn’t say how big the paddocks are??? Usually paddocks are smaller, like a half acre to an acre-.2 to.5 hectare.

Looks like turn out to me:

http://www.leslaurentides.fr/ecurie/en/galerie_photos.php

and here is says Paddocks:

http://www.reitsportanlage-dagobertshausen.com/en/centre/facilities

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This company builds beautiful barns!
Love their barns :slight_smile:
http://www.kingbarns.com/Our_Company_H8BI.html[/QUOTE]

Le Sigh… :frowning:
Thanks to you I now have a drool-covered keyboard :disgust:
I can only wonder what board runs in those D-Luxe facilities, but I suppose it’s one of those “If you have to ask” deals.
Sadly, I have to ask.

There are some pretty spectacular farms in the US too: http://www.lionsharefarm.com/lsfacility.html

Don’t forget this place in Oregon! It isn’t a high functioning Olympic team barn, but it’s not too shabby.

http://www.coastaloregonranch.com/

And I don’t even like the ocean.