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Robin Levine
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Username: Rob10549
Post Number: 44
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, Mar 21, 2006 - 9:11 pm: |   |
How high must the ceiling be in a stall for the safety of a large warmblood?? Thanks, R |
Sara Wolff
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Username: Mrose
Post Number: 1229
Registered: 1-2000
| | Posted on Tuesday, Mar 21, 2006 - 11:48 pm: | |
Ideally, it should be high enough for the horse to rear up and paw with it's front legs without hitting beams, lights, pipes, or anything else. |
Robert N. Oglesby DVM
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Username: Dro
Post Number: 15116
Registered: 1-1997
| | Posted on Wednesday, Mar 22, 2006 - 7:33 am: | |
On the other hand perhaps a good knock on the head may teach the horse not to rear, so he behaves himself in the stall. It would not be the first time after rearing and hitting their head on a beam or ceiling that a horse quit rearing. I consider 12 feet (a little less than 4 meters) goodly head room for large horses but the main reason is not for the horses safety but his comfort. Large open stalls are much cooler and better ventilated. I have seen 10 foot ceilings and less in some older barns with large WB's.
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