Re: self cleaning barns
This message is from: Denise Delgado [EMAIL PROTECTED] dear bill, no just a nurse.
Re: self cleaning barns
This message is from: Denise Delgado [EMAIL PROTECTED] dear julie, that's gross but our old dog, blue, a blue-eyed cowdog/pit bull mix and the best dog ever, used to hang with the horses just to catch a steamer, as my husband calls them. they must taste good, because he seemed to relish them. sadly he died last august and we miss him terribly. our two cairn terriers don't seem to to interested. one of them likes the goat raisans though. denise in SUNNY AND BREEZY, mokelumne hill, calif.
self cleaning barns
This message is from: Julie Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, we don't exactly have a self cleaning barn, but we have 3 very willing dogs who do their best to help clean up the manure! Of course with 31 horses, they don't exactly make a dent in it. Hope I didn't spoil anyone's lunch! Julie, in cold upstate NY where we are expecting wind chills of 40 below tonight and the tractors won't start. : (
Re: self-cleaning barns
This message is from: Debby Stai [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wouldn't like the conveyor belt and the trap doors but what a wonderful idea about the jogging track around the stalls. I wonder how the horses in the stalls react when one goes jogging by? Like anything else, they adapt! Thanks for the ideas, yall keep them coming. Debby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I once visited a farm where they had a barn that was as close to self-cleaning as any I can imagine. It was at Thornmar Farm in Maryland, a TB nursery/training center. The barn was a Saratoga-style barn, with a double row of stalls in the center, surrounded by an indoor jogging track, like this: ___ / \ I I__I__I__I__I__I I I I__I__I__I__I__I I \/ The stalls had a trap-door in the floor at the back of the stalls, which opened up to a conveyor belt running the whole length of the barn, and ending up at a pit at one end, where trucks were pulled up under the end of the belt, waiting to haul the muck away. WOW! I was so envious, but I bet it is a maintenance nightmare - can you imagine all the little pieces of shavings and stuff that end up jammed under the conveyor belt? Jan, in Virginia, still mucking the old-fashioned way.
self-cleaning barns
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I once visited a farm where they had a barn that was as close to self-cleaning as any I can imagine. It was at Thornmar Farm in Maryland, a TB nursery/training center. The barn was a Saratoga-style barn, with a double row of stalls in the center, surrounded by an indoor jogging track, like this: ___ / \ I I__I__I__I__I__I I I I__I__I__I__I__I I \/ The stalls had a trap-door in the floor at the back of the stalls, which opened up to a conveyor belt running the whole length of the barn, and ending up at a pit at one end, where trucks were pulled up under the end of the belt, waiting to haul the muck away. WOW! I was so envious, but I bet it is a maintenance nightmare - can you imagine all the little pieces of shavings and stuff that end up jammed under the conveyor belt? Jan, in Virginia, still mucking the old-fashioned way.
