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Keeping water away from the areas where your horses will be spending time is a great start to your mud management plan. For every inch of rain that falls, there will be 41,472 cubic inches or 179.5 gallons of water deposited in your horse’s paddock. Let’s say you have a 12 foot x 24 foot horse shelter with a shed-roof style design and no gutters. It may be hard to believe, but not having gutters on just one pitch of roof line can be like dumping out the water trough in front of your barn door. Of course there is stuff you can do to prevent mud from forming, even in very wet areas, such as enhanced ground stabilization using Lighthoof mud management panels – designed for bad mud situations in horse paddocks – but you will be giving mud the one-two punch if you also capture and redirect roof rain water before it ends up near your horses’ hooves. However, building roof water is an alarmingly gigantic source of rainwater concentration that often leaves huge amounts of water in critical high traffic horse areas, such as right outside stall doors or barn entrances. This plight can be helped with clever earthwork, grading and drains, outside our horse paddocks and around our barns. Since we can’t keep water from falling from the sky, we must do our best to direct it away from our horses’ hooves. This may seem a little “Captain Obvious” but… the less water you have where your horses are walking, the less mud they will create. 1) Get a Jump on Mud Control by Keeping Roof Water Out of Your Paddocks There are quite a few reasons why you will want your horse houses, from the fanciest stable to the most modest run-in shed, to be equipped with gutters and downspouts. This is one of my favorite little nuggets, because so many out-buildings are designed without them. One subject that is rarely on people’s minds, but should be, is barn gutters. what to do with your water once it’s already standing around in your horse’s paddock. Of course the hot topic that everyone always asks about is drainage, i.e. Having been in the horse farm mud management business for many years, I’ve given lots of presentations on barn design and renovation for a mud-free lifestyle.