Levi Salmans | Orlando Horse Properties

A few tips for your feed room.

• Line your grain bin with sheet metal to keep rodents out. If you use two or more feeds, add partitions to keep them separate.
• Keep only about a week’s worth of grain and a day’s worth of hay in your feed room. Store the rest in another building, for both cleanliness and cost. (Storing hay in the barn may increase your fire insurance premium.)
• To minimize mess, load one day’s worth of hay (one or two bales) in a wheelbarrow and wheel it over from your storage area in the morning; stow it in your feed room between meals.
• Install cabinets to store supplements. First, though, measure what you’ll be storing; gallon jugs and quart bottles won’t fit on shelves of a width and height meant for coffee mugs.
• If you’re installing a washer and dryer, put them here (not in your tack room; they’d add too much moisture to the air).
• A “utility room” in your barn is a great place to store mucking and cleaning tools away from feed, tack and other equipment. The area does not need to be large, about 3 by 8 feet – more if you add a washer and dryer.

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