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and feed area. Additionally, new windows were required. When all was said and done, the entire cost of the barn remodel was around the $30,000 mark.

“The tack room, feed area and west wall of the barn area was done with cedar that we already had. We tried to re-use anything we thought we could,” she says.

Originally the McCooks wanted to purchase stalls for their barn, with one containing a divider to open up wider for foaling. However, they realized the existing doors of the ba arn weren’t tall enough to move the stalls in, so they constructed their own.

The wire mesh used to reinforce the stall walls came from the old stalls. The crew put them back in and Sandy painted them black.

“I told Ken what I wanted for stall doors and he built them too,” she explains. “He also made the feed doors in the stall fronts too.”

The group rebuilt the barn doors, put- ting insulation in both of them. The door they use everyday is a Dutch door and is super handy on good weather days.

“Because the ceiling is somewhat lower than it would have been had we built new, we used pot lights in the stalls and they are on a timer.”

The same lights exist in the alleyway, however these ones are not on a timer. Then as the barn didn’t have any windows on the front (north side), the crew put in two. – one in each stall to help bring in some natural light. They replaced the three original windows with new ones.

The couple did not require any permits to get the job done, due to the fact that they were improving an existing structure.

Says Sandy, “I really enjoy working with weanlings and yearlings and I really wanted somewhere warmer to work with the babies. Also, we still breed a couple mares every year, so if we ever need a safe place for them, now we have it.” WHR