I am buying 10.43 acres to keep my small breeding business or horses. I currently have three mares in foal (due Feb, march, june). There is an existing building on the property that is 30x50 wood support metal cover. I want to put 2 broodmare stalls (10x18) and 4 normal stalls (10x12). The bad thing is the stalls can only be 10 wide at most since the barn is 30 wide total and I do not want to make the hall way any smaller. The good thing is my horses are not going to spend much time inside the barn. I want to install heaters of some kind to keep the stalls warm when the mares foal.

I am also looking into getting a smaller building to house the tractor, hay and shavings. I have looked at several options but most are too cheaply made or cost an arm and a leg.

We have 3 pastures and a smaller turn out that we want to have automatic waters installed. I have one person I know that has had several problems with Nelson waterers and I have read that alot of people think they are the best out there. I have three I am looking at

http://www.miraco.com/horsewater.htm
http://www.nelsonmfg.com/a700H_001.htm
http://www.ritchiefount.com/watermatic.html

I have been reading anything I can find on this and have even bought a few books. Any ideas or thoughts shared will be more then welcome.

Angela