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Tips On Going Green In Your Barn.
Now days, with all the interest in being eco-friendly, going green has taken on a whole new meaning. Remember Kermit the frog’s old saying, “it aint easy being green?” Well it’s easier than you may think to lighten our carbon footprint, (or hoof print).There are some simple, everyday changes that we can make around our homes and our barns, that will make us more eco-friendly. Here are a few going green tips that can get you started.
- Replace regular light bulbs with florescent bulbs. They use one quarter of the energy that regular bulbs use.
- Choose green horse products, like natural fly sprays without pesticides.
- Install skylight panels in your barn roof. This not only adds light, but also helps to heat the barn in those winter months.
- Cut back on pesticides and fertilizers. Try using fly eliminators or fly predators instead.
- Try using straw instead of sawdust or shavings. Straws breaks down more quickly in the compost pile.
- Buy the largest bottles of shampoo and other horse care products that you can find.
- Use wheelbarrows instead of tractors for moving manure and bedding to the compost pile.
- Collect rainwater for your daily chores such as watering plants and bathing horses.
- Save feed bags for use as garbage bags around the barn.
- Compost organic matter such as grass clippings, manure and food.
- Use old horseshoes as hooks for the tack room.
- Buy a goat. If you only have one horse, he will not only serve as a companion, but also a weed wacker.
- Have a barn cat. He will keep out any unwanted rodents.
- Install bird houses. Some birds will eat several thousand flying insects a day.
- Save hay strings for emergency halters or lead ropes.
These are just a few examples of how you can start to go green at your barn. Eco-friendly horsekeeping will help to sustain the long term health of the land and also the animals that live on it.

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