From Katherine Blocksdorf,
Your Guide to Horses.
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Prevent stables from flooding next year. Now is the time to find out where the drainage problems are and make plans to correct them before next year. Taking photos of the problem will help you decide what action to take and show a contractor exactly what needs to be prevented or repaired.

Clean stalls right down to the floor and allow them to dry thoroughly on a bright breezy day. Let as much sunlight in as possible-it's a great disinfectant.

Stalls with dirt floors may need to have the top layer removed and new soil brought in.

Consider putting up a length of eaves troughs above doorways to prevent ice build up next winter and avoid those annoying icy drips of water down your neck as you go in and out.

Spring clean: clear out accumulated feed bags, baler twine, give windows a cleaning, sweep down dust and chaff.

When sweeping out aisles put the dust and manure in the wheel barrow or muck bucket, don't sweep it out the door. Built up manure, chaff and dust holds more moisture than just plain dirt. In wet weather your doorways will turn into a muckier mess than if this area is kept manure and chaff free.

Check for rodent chews on wiring.

Sweep out the hay loft. If the chaff is too dusty for horses to eat put it on your garden. It makes great mulch.

Spring clean run-in shelters too. Remove any manure, bedding, or spilled feed and consider replacing soil if has become too saturated. We've found after a few years of cleaning out our run-in that it has become lower than the surrounding area. We have to build up the soil every so often so it doesn't become an indoor swimming pool.