horse riding equipment stable stall front wood panel gates for horse

horse riding equipment stable stall front wood panel gates for horse​

Once you have cleaned the stable and replaced all the bedding, clean your horse's water and feed buckets thoroughly. Remove all old food and water, scrub the inside of the buckets and refill them. Refill your hay nets and hang them back in the stable. If your horse spends a lot of time in the stall, you should also include some toys to keep him from getting bored.

In addition to cleaning your horses' stalls, you should also make sure that the rest of the barn is clean and safe. After you have mucked out all of the stables, return your horses to their stalls and sweep the floor of the barn thoroughly. Return all of your tools and other equipment to a storage unit or locked shed away from the horses.

In the context of animal welfare, namely reducing the risk of injury to horses kept in boxes, and to prevent compensation claims in the case of injury, infill planks in horse stables have to be resistant to powerful kicks. Because of the common practice of designing infill planks without considering the individual properties of the wood species used, this paper aims to describe the current situation of horse kick load determination, give an overview of possibilities to determine the kick resistance of infill planks and provide ideas for alternative wood species and engineered wood products to replace tropical timbers as plank material. The objective of this effort is to form a basis on which the strength of infill plank can be tested, respectively, impact resistant materials can be developed in future. As a result of the presented findings from impact bending tests on real-dimensioned infill planks, a suitable test set-up for impact bending test is proposed, and mechanical properties of laminated bamboo lumber, a popular plank material, are given. In this context, shock resistance according to DIN 52189 was found to be a useful guide when screening high impact resistant alternative wood species.

Horses kept indoors are typically housed in boxes made of a steel frame construction with a wood filling at the bottom and a metallic grid on the top. In addition to the design and representative appearance of the stalling, with the increased importance of a horse for its ownersafety demands are of increasing interest. Regardless of the individual motivation, the reduction of risk of injury in housing is a current focus of animal welfare. In Sweden (Hammerström & Åkerström, 2007) and in Germany (BMELV, 2009) for example, horseboxes have to be designed to be resistant to horse kicks. Although no mandatory regulations exist, 40 mm plank thickness is generally recommended (BMELV, 2009). Such an unspecific benchmark does not take characteristic wood species’strength properties into account, although they are evident when comparing commonly used softwoods (e. g., larch) and hardwoods (e. g., azobé).

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