How big is a horse stall?
This is another area that can really vary. If you have access to turn out, or if the horse genuinely works all day, every day, you can keep a horse very well in a tie stall or standing stall. This is how working teams used to be kept most of the time. You have a stall a couple of feet longer than the horse and about four to five feet wide. For a team, you’d have a stall eight to ten feet wide with a swinging bail between them. Across the front of the stall you have a manger, a water bucket, and a feed bucket. The horse is tied to the manger by his halter. There is usually a chain across the back to keep the horse from pulling back on the halter and breaking it. I have kept horses in this type of stall, and there are some real advantages to it. First of all, you can’t just leave the horse in there indefinitely. You are forced to make sure the horse gets worked or gets turn out time every day. Secondly, the horse is never in contact with its own feces, and rarely in contact with its own
