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27-660: Horses are often kept inside buildings known as barns or stables, which provide shelter for the animals. These buildings are normally subdivided to provide a separate stall or box for each horse, which prevents horses injuring each other, separates horses of different genders, allows for individual care regimens such as restricted or special feeding, and makes handling easier. The design of stables can vary widely, based on climate, building materials, historical period, and cultural styles of architecture. A wide range of building materials can be used, including masonry (bricks or stone), wood, and steel. Stables can range widely in size, from

54-474: A bullpen , is a round enclosure used for horse training . They range in diameter from a minimum of 30 feet (9.1 m) to a maximum of 100 feet (30 m), with most designs 50 to 60 feet (15 to 18 m) in diameter. Footing is usually sand or other soft dirt. The sides are 6 to 8 feet (1.8 to 2.4 m) high, traditionally made of wooden posts with rails or wooden boards, although modern round pens are often made out of portable pipe panels that allow

81-559: A herd , where they may also engage in play activity and social bonding. The area where the horses are placed can be of any size, from a small pen with room to run, to wide areas covering thousands of square miles. In the United Kingdom this may range from open moorland without internal subdivision, down to small, fenced areas of grass, called pastures or paddocks in British English. A large turnout of several acres

108-577: A large portion of the day, or where additional forage is not desired, they may be turned out in to areas with no grass, to encourage activity and prevent grazing. In the USA, such spaces are called a paddock or, in the western United States, a corral, in the British Isles, a paddock, and in Australia, a pen. Sometimes the colloquialism "starvation" is prefixed to these grassless areas, though the intent

135-442: A person could keep track of their physical and mental wellbeing by attending to regimen. In economic statistics, a regimen refers to the selected goods and/or services priced for the purpose of compiling a price index . The most well known example is the consumer price index . This medical treatment –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Round pen The round pen , sometimes called

162-493: A roof or a tension fabric building . Round pens made of portable panels are sometimes set up within a larger riding arena allowing one horse to be worked in the round pen while others may still ride along the rail of the larger area. The round pen has historic roots dating to the tradition of Spanish horsemanship and probably even earlier antecedents. In North America, it was used for horse-breaking in Mexico and came north with

189-422: A service for horses to live on pasture only, without a space inside the stable buildings, known as "grass livery" (BrE), "agistment" (BrE), or "pasture board" (AmE). Where the stables also house a riding school or hireling operation, some operators may also offer a "working livery" (UK) or "partial lease" (US), where the horse owner pays a discounted rate (or no money at all) for their own horse's care in return for

216-485: A small building to house only one or two animals, to facilities used at agricultural shows or at race tracks , which can house hundreds of animals. Terminology relating to horse accommodation differs between American and British English , with additional regional variations of terms. The term "stables" to describe the overall building is used in most major variants of English, but in American English (AmE)

243-562: A traditional fence, with fewer rails than a traditional type, as the modern domestic horse usually respects fences and does not consider the normal gaps between fence rails to offer a means of escape. In this design, the bottom section of the fence may be solid to prevent the sand or loose dirt from being pushed out of the pen by the movement of the animal. The last design sometimes called a "bullpen," has completely solid walls, usually plywood placed over traditional rails or planks, to completely block all outside visual distractions and to allow

270-467: Is a paddock in Australia, a pasture is significantly larger. In the United States, similar large spaces ranging from a few to many acres are called pastures or, for larger areas of public land or private unfenced ranch land approaching 100 acres or more, rangeland . Where the purpose of turning the horses out is to encourage activity and not for forage , for instance where a horse is stabled for

297-476: Is a plan, or course of action such as a diet , exercise or medical treatment . A low-salt diet is a regimen. A course of penicillin is a regimen, and there are many chemotherapy regimens in the treatment of cancer . The work, Regimen in Acute Diseases , attributed to the ancient Greek physician, Hippocrates of Cos , describes the types and usage of medical regimens in his era (400 BCE). This

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324-518: Is not to starve the horse, but simply to regulate diet. This also could include a space such as a riding arena, doing double-duty as a turnout area. Equine nutritionists and management specialists also recommend a grassless area, which they sometimes call a "sacrifice area," be fenced off from pastures intended for forage where horses can be placed when it is wet or muddy, to prevent the grass from being trampled, and during times of drought, to prevent or minimize overgrazing . Regimen A regimen

351-497: Is perhaps the first appearance of the term . PubMed at the US National Library of Medicine lists over 220,000 articles using the term "regimen" from 1892 to January 2013. In the context of medieval medicine, regimen referred to the careful management of habits, diet, and schedule to keep the four humors in equilibrium. By manipulating the six non-naturals (airs, diet, sleep, exercise, evacuation, and emotion)

378-505: Is when the horse owner does all of the work related to the care of the horse themselves, called "do-it-yourself" (DIY) or "self-board". In the middle range, the term "full board" is used in the US to refer to several options, depending on the part of the country, from a facility that simply feeds the animals and possibly provides turnout, to one that handles all care of the horse, sometimes including exercise under saddle but not training per se . At

405-461: The round pen popular with natural horsemanship practitioners, which generally start at 40 to 60 feet (12 to 18 m) in diameter. Most arenas designed to allow more than one horse and rider pair to exercise safely at the same time are rectangular in shape and at the barest minimum are 50 to 60 feet (15 to 18 m) wide and at least 90 to 120 feet (27 to 37 m) long. The largest are commercial facilities designed for competitive events open to

432-508: The vaqueros to be adopted by cowboys in the western United States. Today the round pen is used in Europe for some forms of classical dressage training and in the Americas as a common tool of western riding training methodology that is particularly popular with the natural horsemanship movement. The round pen allows greater interaction between horse and handler and more control over

459-448: The United States follows similar sizes. Stallions are sometimes kept in larger boxes, up to 14 feet (4.3 m) square, and mares about to foal or with foal at side are sometimes kept in a double-sized stall. Stables can be maintained privately for an owner's own horses or operated as a public business where a fee is charged for keeping other people's horses. In some places, stables are run as riding schools , where horses are kept for

486-440: The animal from seeking escape due to the near-solid appearance of closely spaced rails. Most modern round pens, however, are intended for domesticated horses who do not fear humans. These designs commonly are built about 6 feet (1.8 m) high, which still discourages jumping out, but use fewer materials and are less expensive. Another design made of pipe, 2 by 6 inches (51 by 152 mm) planks or round rails, resembles

513-598: The available space, local custom, welfare concerns, and workload of the horses. In some countries, local organisations give recommendations as to the minimum size of accommodation for a horse. For instance, in Britain, the British Horse Society recommends that horses be kept only in boxes which allow freedom of movement, and that these should measure a minimum of 10 feet (3.0 m) square for ponies, and 12 feet (3.7 m) square for horses. Common practice in

540-713: The general public with a performance space well over 150 by 300 feet (46 by 91 m) A riding academy or riding center is a school for instruction in equestrianism , or for hiring of horses for pleasure riding . Most feature a large indoor riding arena . At the time of the Napoleonic Wars large buildings were constructed for them, like Moscow Manege , Mikhailovsky and Konnogvardeisky maneges in St Petersburg . Many horses are turned out in to fields to graze , exercise, or exhibit other natural behaviours, either on their own or more usually as part of

567-419: The horse because the horse cannot fully avoid its human handler. It is used for many forms of training, including ground work such as longeing and liberty work, or for riding . It may also be used for turnout and free exercise. It is most often used today for the purpose of training young horses, though is also used for exercising or riding mature horses and a place for the first rides of a beginning rider who

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594-462: The horse to concentrate on the handler. Sometimes the walls of a bullpen slant outward slightly. The solid-walled design may also reduce wind, and thus allow work in more inclement weather than a more open design. The drawback to a bullpen design is that the solid, smooth walls hinder a human's escape from the pen by climbing over the fence if needed. Most round pens are located outdoors, but due to their relatively small size can easily be enclosed by

621-419: The pen to be made bigger or smaller, or to be moved. Traditional designs intended for control of untamed feral horses are made of heavy lumber and up to 8 feet (2.4 m) high, to prevent the animal from jumping out or running through the fence. Traditional round pens have closely spaced rails that allow foot room for a human to climb out of the pen, but also give the fence great strength and also discourage

648-466: The purpose of providing lessons for people learning to ride or even as a livery stable (US) or hireling yard (UK), where horses are loaned out for activities in exchange for money. When operated as a business where owners bring their horses to be boarded, they are known as " livery yards " (BrE) or "boarding stables" (AmE and Australian English). There are a number of arrangements that horse owners can make with operators of these stables. The least expensive

675-401: The riding school being able to offer the horse to paying customers other than the owner. Horses are often exercised under human control, ridden or competed within designated fenced or enclosed places, usually called schools, pens or arenas. These can be of almost any size, provided they are sufficiently large for a horse to move freely, and can be located indoors or outdoors. The smallest are

702-402: The singular form "stable" is also used to describe a building. In British English (BrE), the singular term "stable" refers only to a box for a single horse, while in the USA the term "box stall" or "stall" describes such an individual enclosure. In most stables, each horse is kept in a box or stall of its own. These are of two principal types: The choice of type of box is likely to relate to

729-542: The top end, the facility operator manages the entire care of the horse, including riding and training. In the UK, this is called "full livery". In the US, such settings may be called a "training stable". There are intermediate stages of care with parts of the care of the horse undertaken by each party, using terms such as "part livery" or "part board", with the terms not universal, even within individual countries, and usually agreed between owner and operator. Some stables also offer

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