cob&onion
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Have a 3.5 acre field and have 3 acres of that for the neds. A 15.1 cob a (soon to be) 15hh welsh cob and a 12hh welsh pony. OH wants me to rethink my plans for the shelter in the field. We have a wood and he wants to use the timber to build it himself (he has a wood mill etc and knows what he is doing and is very handy!)
We have established that we need full planning now for what we want (hardstanding is classed as needing full PP) so am doing a bit of thinking.
Now the field gets very boggy (clay based) so i def need a hardstanding area - somewhere i can turn out daily with hay no matter the weather, i would like the option of at least 2 stables and need a storage area for hay/straw - want it to hold at least 5 x large square bales a time. I also want somewhere dry where i can tack up/farrier visit/clip etc in the rain - maybe an overhang and a field shelter going off the hard-standing for rain/sun etc.......ideally i need all this to be one unit, so am thinking an L shape block of maybe 2 x 12 x 12 stables with a concrete yard bit outside with an overhang, a storage area with double opening barn doors approx 12 x 24ft and on the end making the L part (if that makes sense) an open field shelter 12 x 24ft. The stables and yard part would be fenced with a gate and the opening to the shelter would be open aswell as the hardstanding area. Outside the hardstanding area i would use post and rail and have a 12ft gate to close on very wet days if need be, on finer days they could go out on the field but always leave a 1 acre section resting for the whole winter.
Obviously am trying to save the field as much as poss so it can be used year round as having to find winter grazing most winters!
So a few questions -
How big would the hardstanding need to be in feet for the above horses not including the area they will have in the shelter?
This all needs to be done before pp can be applied for then theres a wait so i have kind of accepted the fact that its not going to be ready this winter
So what do you think? any more ideas? what have you got if you have a similar sized field?
We have established that we need full planning now for what we want (hardstanding is classed as needing full PP) so am doing a bit of thinking.
Now the field gets very boggy (clay based) so i def need a hardstanding area - somewhere i can turn out daily with hay no matter the weather, i would like the option of at least 2 stables and need a storage area for hay/straw - want it to hold at least 5 x large square bales a time. I also want somewhere dry where i can tack up/farrier visit/clip etc in the rain - maybe an overhang and a field shelter going off the hard-standing for rain/sun etc.......ideally i need all this to be one unit, so am thinking an L shape block of maybe 2 x 12 x 12 stables with a concrete yard bit outside with an overhang, a storage area with double opening barn doors approx 12 x 24ft and on the end making the L part (if that makes sense) an open field shelter 12 x 24ft. The stables and yard part would be fenced with a gate and the opening to the shelter would be open aswell as the hardstanding area. Outside the hardstanding area i would use post and rail and have a 12ft gate to close on very wet days if need be, on finer days they could go out on the field but always leave a 1 acre section resting for the whole winter.
Obviously am trying to save the field as much as poss so it can be used year round as having to find winter grazing most winters!
So a few questions -
How big would the hardstanding need to be in feet for the above horses not including the area they will have in the shelter?
This all needs to be done before pp can be applied for then theres a wait so i have kind of accepted the fact that its not going to be ready this winter
So what do you think? any more ideas? what have you got if you have a similar sized field?
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