Barn Operations · #safety

Barn Operations guides tagged “safety” from the Apex Equine resource center.

• Barn fire: the prevention checklist worth doing this weekend — A barn full of hay, shavings, and dry wood is a tinderbox, and most barn fires start from causes you can eliminate in an afternoon. Here's the walk-through that actually moves the needle.
• Writing an emergency plan before you need one — Fire, flood, a loose horse on the road at midnight, a colic with the owner unreachable. The barns that handle emergencies well wrote the plan on a calm afternoon, not in the middle of the crisis.