Case Study: Ideal Temperatures for Horse Stables
HeatingHeating for a horse stable is a very critical part of keeping your horses healthy and also not keeping it a clean environment for the horses to live in. Heating is needed in places in where there will be cold winters and pretty warm summers. The ideal temperature for a horse stable to stay around is about 50 degrees fahrenheit. If there is a temperature that is close to 0 degrees fahrenheit it is ideal for a horse to use blanket instead of blasting the heat to keep them warm that way because fresh air is ideal for their breathing. There are only two ideal rooms that really need heating in a horse stable and those rooms are the tack room and the utility room and these two need heating because it is for the medicine and different grooming tools that need to stay at a constant temperature. Any rooms that are heating in a horse stable will need to be insulated and have vapor barrier on all sides to prevent damages from happening.
Condensation
There are a few things that need to be followed so you can avoid condensation inside your horse stable which can cause horrible things such as bacteria, fungal growth and more to form inside.
To prevent Condensation as much as possible
- keep humidity low
- providing lots of ventilation for the horses will provide the horse inside close as possible to the outside temperature.
- having insulation so the outside temperature can be as close as possible to inside.
The idea humidity for a horse would be around 50-75 percent having 60 be the ideal but it is also better to be drier than more wet in the place. A humidifier is also ideal for enclosed rooms and stall to remove as much moister in the air as possible.
Ventilation
Keeping a place ventilated well is needed for horses especially because they are used for athletic reasons, so having fresh air for them is needed. Having fresh air is also good because it can cause less bacterial problems inside of a horse stable.
Air Movement and Vents
Having good air flow through a horse stable play a big part because there is not much air movement inside of a horse stable. Having warm air in a horse stable is ideal so the vents can cause the warm air to go out a bring in cooler air for the horses.
Ideals for Vents
Vents are rated by "net free area" and there are requirements for things like these
- allow 1 square feet vent for every 300 square feet of floor space.
- 60 percent of venting area should be lower intake vents and 40 percent should be high exhaust vents.
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