What we build
The stable-yard line
Services
Four systems, one horse-sense standard
01
No-climb paddocks — from $14.20/ln ft
Two-inch-by-four-inch woven mesh on hot-dipped line posts, stretched drum-tight and stapled every foot — the aperture a hoof cannot enter at any approach angle, which is the entire point. Wood top rail for visibility, and a cribbing line where the chewers live, because replacing a board is cheaper than colic surgery.
02
Arena rails & kick lines — from $11.80/ln ft
The perimeter of the ring takes kicks, splashes and the weekly drag: rails on replaceable brackets, kick walls backed and bolted rather than face-nailed, and sight lines a horse reads at a canter. The rail that lets go in a storm should cost you a bracket, never a section.
03
Stall runs & shed rows — from $8,900/row
In-and-out runs with the drainage a wet winter asks for, mesh dividers that end the neighbour argument, and gates hung so a handler with a lead line and an opinion never blocks the door. Built to be hosed, not admired.
04
Track systems & laneways — from $6.40/ln ft
The medicine of movement: a narrow track that keeps barefoot herds walking sixteen hours a day, surfaced and graded so the mud season does not undo it, with passing places and shade mapped before the first post goes in.
How it goes
From the herd walk to the first turnout
The same sequence on every job — the only variable is your project.
Day 1
The herd walk
We watch the horses, not just the land: who runs the fence line, who chews, who crowds the gate, and where the mud goes in a wet March. The system is designed around that afternoon, and the quote is written the same day, fixed for sixty days.
Days 2–4
Layout for traffic
Gate widths for the tractor and the trailer, the passing places a handler needs, drainage graded before the fence pins it in place — the geometry is for the two-legged traffic as much as the four, and it is cheaper to move a line on paper than in posts.
Set days
Posts, mesh, rails
Line posts driven to spec, mesh stretched drum-tight and stapled every foot, corners rounded with nothing to trap a shoulder, and rails bracketed for the replacement you will eventually want rather than the nail you would regret.
Build week
Gates & hardware
Gates hung one-handed-workable from horseback, latches at fifty-four inches with a safety pin a pony cannot flip, and every hinge greased and demonstrated. The rider who cannot open it dressed for a January is the failure we test against.
Turnout day
The safety walk
We walk every foot with the first horses out: stapling, tension, corners and gate swings while the herd explores. Adjustments happen on the spot, and the maintenance sheet — the spring checklist, the chew-board schedule — goes in the folder.
Our insurer asked what we changed the year the injury claims stopped. Nothing, we told her — except the fences. The old line had a corner that trapped a shoulder every season a young horse discovered it; Cavaletti rounded it, meshed it, and the claims file has been a flat line since.
Proof
From the trainers and the vets
The kick line has taken three seasons of a warmblood with opinions and asked for two brackets and one rail — replaced in minutes, by me, in February, with the spares they left on the rack. The arena reads square at a canter and the drag clears the kick walls without a ceremony.
I bill out the injuries other people’s fences cause, so I notice the barns that never call me. Every Cavaletti yard on my rounds is on that list — the mesh is honest, the corners are rounded, and the gates shut behind a handler carrying a feed bucket. That is rarer than it should be.
Twenty-two paddocks, four shed rows, one track, and a board of owners who stopped arguing about chew damage the month the cribbing line went in. They fixed the mud before they fenced it, which told me everything about how the rest would go.
Before the herd walk
The barn questions
What every owner and barn manager in Ryegrass asks when the quote arrives — answered by the crew that has fenced ninety-six of them.
Why no-climb instead of standard woven wire?
Aperture. A two-by-four opening cannot take a hoof at any approach angle — standard field mesh has openings that widen under pressure and exactly fit a shod foot. The price difference is measured per foot; a single veterinarian bill is measured in thousands, and we would rather quote the mesh that never writes one.
Wood rails or flexible rail — which survives better?
Wood with bracketed mounting, for our county: it takes the kick, scars visibly, and swaps in minutes from the spares we leave. Flexible rail absorbs beautifully, but a torn section hangs at exactly the height a horse panics at. Where an owner prefers it we install it properly tensioned — but the wood rail is our recommendation.
How do you handle the chewers?
A cribbing line: metal cap rail or chew-strip along the top board on the paddocks that need it, quoted up front from the herd walk. It is the cheapest line on the page against the most expensive habit in the barn, and it keeps the board-looking board actually looking like one.
What does a season of maintenance look like?
One spring walk with the folder: re-staple where frost heaved, re-tension gate latches, inspect kick-wall bolts, and replace any rail that took a winter hit from the spares on the rack. An hour per paddock, most years — and the checklist we hand over is the same one our service visit runs.
Winter repair slots held open through the freeze — a kicked rail is a same-week visit, not a spring one · (555) 928-5566 · barn@cavaletifence.example
Walk the herd with us.
Breed, temperament and turnout habits — the walk is free, the quote lands the same day, and the maintenance folder leaves with you whoever builds the line. Ryegrass, Paddock Green and the boarding barns between.