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Now at Traveled Lane - Calico Horse & Stock Trailers! 

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We're pleased to announce the addition of Calico Trailers to our offerings.  Calico trailers are well made, but they're also very affordable, which makes them doubly appealing in a tight economy.  We get several inquiries a week about used trailers, and good used trailers always seem to be in short supply.  The addition of Calico allows us to offer a ready supply of safe, well made, well-equipped NEW trailers at prices just slightly above that of a good used trailer (and as some of you may have found out the hard way, you often won't know if that used trailer is good or bad until after you've bought it).  We're pleased to be able to offer several well-equipped Calico horse trailer models starting in the upper $4000 range.    Calico has been building trailers since 1983.  They offer trailers ranging in size from short & narrow for miniature horses up to tall & long for warmbloods and other large breeds.   They also offer a variety of livestock trailer models, which we'll be adding to this section as they arrive.      For the initial group of trailers shown here, we've chosen to go with 12' bumper pulls because that's a very useful size without being too large.  We're particularly excited about the two trailers in the photo just above this paragraph.  They're 6' wide, 12' long and 7'6" tall.  Even though they look like stock trailers, they're actually straight loads with rear ramps.  The 12' length and 7'6" height makes them great for large horses such as warmbloods.  The stock-trailer body style makes them bright, inviting and affordable and provides plenty of ventilation.  Calico's optional spring-assisted ramp on the featured trailers is very easy to use.  The 12' trailer body length provides plenty of room for large horses, but it also allows us to equip these trailers with a full height escape door forward of the fender.  We feel it's much safer and more convenient than the small door over the fender that's a feature of many short-bodied trailers.    The trailer on the left has no tack compartment (but plenty of room forward for tack storage).  The trailer on the right has the optional tack storage compartment.  In many shorter trailers, the tack compartment is right in front of the horses' knees.  We've chosen to offer the 12' length so you'll have walking space between the chest bars and the tack compartment.  This configuration makes the escape door much more accessible from both stalls.  We've done our best to equip our Calicos for safe and convenient use while keeping them very affordable.    Calico trailers feature high quality Dexter axles and even Calico's smaller bumper pulls come with standard 16" Load Range E radial tires.  That tire size and rating is typically found on 3 and 4 horse trailers, so we hope this gives you a sense that even though Calicos are very affordable, they're not bargain-basement trailers.  If you look closely at the interior shots, you'll see that Calico puts guard bars on windows in the horse area (some brands don't) and they put a nice interior trim ring around the front window.  Quite often in steel trailers, there will be rough exposed edges inside the window openings.  And speaking of cut-above efforts, we hope the gloss and good finish of the Calicos is apparent, even though we violated our "only on bright, sunny days" rule when we took these pictures.  Calico has several paint booths; they don't rush the painting process, and it shows.   The trailer just below this paragraph is a Calico 2 horse slant stock combo.  It's 6' wide and 12' in length and has the optional 7' interior height.  This one is equipped with what Calico calls the Poor Boy dressing room, which has a locking entry door and a wall that swings out of the way so you can open up the interior of the trailer to haul a load of hay, etc.  A nice feature of this model is that it has a standard escape door on the first stall.  You'll often find on value-priced trailers that escape doors are optional, if offered at all.  The model shown has optional floor mats, a padded chain across the rear opening and 2 contoured Saddle Boss saddle racks in the dressing room.      If you're interested in something a bit fancier, the trailer just below may be of interest.  It's a Calico 2H straight load with tack compartment.  It's 6' wide, 12' long and 7'6" tall.  As with the straight loads mentioned earlier, it has plenty of room for large horses.  We ordered it with an additional escape door (one is standard), plenty of windows, floor mats and wall mats.        We're very excited about the addition of Calico trailers.  We have more of them on order and plan to keep a variety of styles in stock.  Watch this space as we grow our inventory and add more Calico models.  We invite you to visit Traveled Lane to see our Calicos (and maybe take one home). Click to return to What's New summary.