Equestrian Stables for your Horses

An equestrian stable is usually a mainly wooden barn or building where horses can be kept. Instead of leaving the horses outside in the fields to graze and sleep overnight, the majority of horses (especially those kept as pets or for racing) are kept inside an equestrian stables, where it is much easier to groom, feed and shelter the horses.

The United Kingdom has had a long lasting heritage of using horses over a huge range of jobs for such a long period of time, from use in labour (like farming, pulling carriages and riding into wars) to recreational use (for example, racing and show jumping), which means that right across the country equestrian stables have played a part in helping to continue the tradition of horse riding, with many still surviving today.

However, within the last century or so, the number of horses in use across the country has significantly reduced as better solutions for transport, farming and other labour have come around. Horses are no longer needed to pull carts and traps, and their use in farming has also shrunk, with motorised ploughs and other machinery having been invented. This has meant that the number of equestrian stables in the UK has also decreased, and their purpose has also changed. With the majority of stables in the past being used for horses doing manual labour, they were often full with horses, and community stables would spring up, providing work, like cleaning and feeding the horses.

Nowadays, however, it is more common for people to buy an equestrian stables for their own horses, which only they can use. These are usually built on their own land, with easy access for the horses to get there. Jon William Stables can provide you with many types and sizes of equestrian stables for providing shelter for your horses.

Horse Stables in the UK

A Horse Stable is a place in which horses are usually kept. In the instances where peoples horses are not left in fields to graze all day, most horses are kept overnight and during a lot of the day in stables.  Due to the United Kingdom’s long-lasting heritage of using horses for many jobs over thousands of years, whether they be for recreational use or labour, dotted all around the country there are thousands of horse stables.

Unfortunately due to the decrease in demand for horses over the last century, with the invention of the motorcar and other engine-powered machines, the need for horses in Britain has changed hugely. Horse Stables in the UK no longer serve so many horses that are used for labour work, such as pulling carts and traps, or carrying out work in farms, and as a result, the main usage for horse stables has changed.

In the past, many horse stables were owned by a single wealthy family, whose horses were all kept in the stables where they were fed, groomed and exercised. This meant that a large number of the horse stables at the time were situated within large estates or even mansions, with lots of land surrounding the stables where the horses could be ridden.

More recently, most stables have still been privately owned, but they’re owned by businesses, and the majority of them serve horses for recreational use from many different customers. The stables no longer serve just one family, and instead may serve several to a couple of dozen families, depending on the stables’ size.

Currently, the use of large stables is declining; those people with horses are often opting now to fit their own small stables into the field they keep their horse, which seems to suggest that the age of the large public horse stables in the UK is coming to an end.

If you would like to obtain a horse stables for your own horse, contact Jon William Stables, who can supply horse stables of many different kinds to you, depending on your needs.

Help prevent dehydration with field shelters

Dehydration is the loss of water and salts from the body which are essential for the body to function properly. Dehydration happens when not enough fluids are taken in, in comparison to those which are lost. This could be through excessive sweating, participating in strenuous exercise and even from being unwell. Staying outside in the sun for prolonged periods of time is also a prominent cause of dehydration. However, it is not only humans that suffer from dehydration as many animals can also effect as well.

As humans, we are usually able to manage our hydration levels by drinking when thirsty and staying out of sun when it is hot. Our bodies also function very well in cooling us down – or there are many mechanical aids including air conditioners and fans to give our bodies that helping hand. For horses it is not as simple.

Horses are large animals that cannot control their own body temperature as well as a human, partially due to the high proportion of heat produced from large muscles in the body when performing any physical exercise. The one way that horses are able to reduce their overall body temperature is through sweating. This process is usually excessive – especially during strenuous exercise – meaning that far more water and salts are lost than what the horse will take in. This is heightened in hot and humid conditions. By keeping your animal cooler, with round the clock access to shade, the need to sweat would be reduced, making it far less likely for the animal to become dehydrated.

Fieldshelters could help to provide shade in paddocks during the warmer summer months. These shelters can usually be designed specific to your requirements, with options for large overhanging canopies and multiple windows for improved ventilation. Some companies offer mobile field shelters, making them easy to reposition, depending on the suns direction into the field, to give optimum shade throughout the day.

If you are worried about dehydration in your equestrian animal during the upcoming British summer and would like to find out a little more information on field shelters, please visit the website of JonWilliam Stables to view the wide range of products available. Alternatively, if you would like to speak with a member of the team to discuss your bespoke requirements, please call 01380 850 965 where an experienced team member will be more than happy to help.