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Planning a new facility for your horses or trying to solve stubborn mud or maintenance problems on your own farm? You can now get a personal consultation with one of our farm design experts for f...
Barn Owners - This is How to Handle a Crisis
This speaks directly to the owners of stables and boarding facilities, like myself, who have a human community to nurture right now in addition to their herd of horses.As barn owners, we are alread...
How To Avoid Hazards for Horses and Humans During Your Barn and Paddock Remodel
The last thing we want during our barn remodel is to have our progress waylaid by an accident to horses or humans that could put someone on your team out of commission and incur vet or medical bil...
How to Avoid the Two Biggest Paddock Drainage Misconceptions
Paddock drainage is a major buzz word in the mud management world. However, as we discuss in our article on ground stability, drainage is not actually the most important factor in keeping mud from ...
How to Choose the Right Gravel for Your Lighthoof Installation
When shopping for gravel to fill your Lighthoof panels, choose wisely for the best possible results. Do not fill Lighthoof panels with pea gravel, drain gravel, or other rounded rock or sand infil...
Creating a Smart HUA for Successful Pasture Management
Keeping your horses off the pastures at certain times of the year and when grass height is shorter than 3” is the only way to get lush green pastures on your farm. But your horses still need to be...
Managing Burrowing Rodents in Pastures
You have enough to think about when it comes to the perfect lush pasture. Seeding, irrigation, overgrazing, weeds...the list goes on. Nothing adds insult to injury quite like watching all your hard...
Great Meadow International 2017 Recap
This weekend we had the chance to travel from our west coast base out to The Plains, Virginia for the only Nations Cup event on American soil. It was also our first major event as vendors where we ...
Beat the Heat - Tips to Stay Cool With Horses in Summer
Well it’s finally here - that time of year every equestrian has been longing for. Long, warm, dry days and endless time on horseback! Summer show season, perfect summer evening rides, potlucks at t...
Modern Homesteading - Get Your Backyard Homestead Started
Whether you’re already boots deep in homesteading and are successfully self sustained on your backyard homestead or your big picture dream includes turning that rough patch of side-yard into the pe...
Managing Bugs and Pests at the Stable
Hopefully now that spring is nearing an end and summer is starting to get underway, your horse property should be drying out, but that doesn’t mean a break from pasture management. If it’s not one ...
Optimize Your Horse’s Health with These Barn Safety Tips
As equestrians, we spend most of our time making sure our four-legged beasts have all the comforts and amenities we can possibly provide. Their health and wellbeing are our top priorities; usually ...
How Lighthoof Saves YOU Money! - A Lighthoof Infographic
Layer upon layer of gravel and mud might make for a temporary fix, but what about your long term cost savings? Utilizing our innovative mud management panels, Lighthoof's design keeps your gravel i...