Customer Reviews

Horsekeeping on a Small Acreage: Facilities Design and Management

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Since I have bought this book I have read it everytime I have a free minute. I have been working i the horse industry for many years now and am thinking of starting my own horse business. Although as I read the first half of the book I realise that I already know a lot of the information, there are still certain points that are new to me. It is an excellent resource of information for anybody thinking of starting a small horse business, and in particular to those people who have not worked extensively in the horse industry. For people who already have knowledge of the horse industry there is a wealth of information on the business side of running a farm and also for pitfalls to watch out for. This book has further inspired me to follow my dream of having my own horse business on my own land.

I just received this book and I skimmed through it briefly, and I'm already thrilled that I bought it. It has excellent examples, charts comparing different things/cost/durability...

I'm planning on building my own barn in the next 5 years or so, and this book will help me tremendously!

Highly Recommended!

Give wise details with small acerage, land useage, water supply, turnout space and essentials for the horse to survive but be comfortable at the same time. Goes down to as small as 3 acres and as large as 100. Legal aspects to consider. Composts to deal with and so on, worth buying for sure.

I really was disappointed in this book. I usually love the Cherry Hill books, but I didn't find this helpful. 15 acres is NOT small - I want a backyard guide (5 acres for example). Also didn't find the book easy to navigate.

The smallest "acreage" in this book was 3.5 acres!!!
Try living in CALIFORNIA where most people have only 1 acre or even 1/2 acre for their horse. THAT is what I was looking for...how to manage TRULY SMALL amounts of land with a horse.
GEEZ, 3 acres sounds like a RANCH.
And the barn layouts. These barns look like the Taj Mahal!No way I have that much room.
However, it did have interesting info I can use...like info on daily feed planning (that's in my horse care book). The rest...hmmm. not so useful.
Maybe I need to look for HORSEKEEPING in a residential area?

great book..talks about everything you need to know if having horses on your property..from fencing, and barn ideas...to flooring and windows.......heat...fire...food....how to place it...where to put it...every horse owner should read this book!!!

This book would be more for pretty inexperienced horse people just starting out. I was hoping to find more on arenas and footing and things like that since I already have a barn and horse property and have had horses all my life but never built my own arena. It was too basic for me.

I just purchased the Master Library CD-ROM and love the flexibiltiy of this format!

My husband picked this one up for me at the library one day and I read it and know that I must own one to refer to when we are ready to start our horse farm!! I am ordering a copy from Amazon today! It contains very useful information for the novices, like we are.

To the extent the book focuses on factual information about horses, facilities, design, and management, it's a good book. Unfortunately the author too often digresses to lecture readers about how they should run their operations according to her own unique set of value judgments.