Stablekeeping: A Visual Guide to Safe and Healthy Horsekeeping

by Cherry Hill, Richard Klimesh

Your horses deserve a comfortable and well-kept stable. In this easy-to-use guide, Cherry Hill shows you how to design and maintain an efficient and safe stable environment. With clear instructions and more than 250 photographs, Hill provides in-depth advice on every aspect of stable management, including stalls, tack rooms, work and storage areas, sanitation, safety considerations, and more. Good stablekeeping is an essential element of every successfully equine operation; it ensures a pleasant workplace and creates a healthy and happy environment for your horses. 

Genres: Horses, Nonfiction

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 15, 2000

About the author

Cherry Hill is now writing fiction and her debut novel, Becoming Amber, will be released this year.
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Cherry Hill is the internationally known best-selling author of more than 30 non-fiction horse books, including How to Think Like a Horse, Horsekeeping on a Small Acreage, and 101 Arena Exercises. Her books have been translated into eleven languages; most are published by the Hachette Book Group. She has also written over 1,000 articles for popular equine publications.
Besides writing, Cherry has been a university instructor, horse trainer, and show judge. Born in Michigan, she’s lived in Canada, Alaska and six other US states. Cherry and her husband live on their ranch in Colorado, where Cherry cooks three meals a day from scratch, rides a mountain trike, and plays an Estonia grand piano.

Reviews

[cellomerl · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very practical book, with loads of usable information on horse care and stable management. Cherry Hill’s books provide details that I never see anywhere else. The content is very American, which is fine (horses are the same everywhere), except it means that some of the sources aren’t readily available to me, and “winter” is not necessarily the same. I would have enjoyed this book more if the pictures were larger and in colour.

[Patricia Barlow-Irick · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is very dated and does not pertain to all regions of the country. If you haven't been keeping horses very long, you need to read it anyway. It would be most excellent if Cherry Hill updated this book to include more environmentally sensitive practices.

[Leslie Jonsson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very detailed analysis of stables, different flooring for your barn, and general upkeep of a stable area. Cherry Hill knows what she is talking about, she is highly recommended.