Six Ways to Better Prevent and Respond to Barn Fires

At the AAEP 2014 convention in Salt Lake City in December, Coralie Mouraw (a third-year vet student at University of llinois) and I worked together on a presentation for veterinarians that highlighted some of the simple, as well as the more expensive and difficult, methods of changing what we do when building barns to take into account barn fire safety for our animals. We made the point that traditional barn design really hasn’t changed over the past 600 years an