How can I tell if my farm is big enough to hold another barn or field?

[GrayJay]

I am getting ready to buy my first barn but I don't know if I need to expand my farm first. How can you tell exactly how many barns / pastures you can build on a farm of a certain size? It says on the farm information that expanding will increase the number of barns/pastures you can build, but it doesn't say how many barns/pastures my farm is currently capable of holding. I suppose I could try to buy a barn and see if my farm will hold it, but I'd prefer to know beforehand so I can first expand to the required size and then buy the barn/field. (I'm just starting and have very few horses, so it takes a while for me to earn enough money to do anything.)
Thanks for any help that anyone can give.

[BlackOak2]

I am getting ready to buy my first barn but I don't know if I need to expand my farm first. How can you tell exactly how many barns / pastures you can build on a farm of a certain size? It says on the farm information that expanding will increase the number of barns/pastures you can build, but it doesn't say how many barns/pastures my farm is currently capable of holding. I suppose I could try to buy a barn and see if my farm will hold it, but I'd prefer to know beforehand so I can first expand to the required size and then buy the barn/field. (I'm just starting and have very few horses, so it takes a while for me to earn enough money to do anything.)
Thanks for any help that anyone can give.

If I remember correctly, the basic farm size can hold one pasture and one barn easily, and I think it can hold two pastures and two barns, or some combination of that. I think that I had to expand when I had three pastures and a barn, so I could add a fourth pasture. I do not remember if the size of the pastures or barns affect the amount that you can add.
My biggest problem when I was expanding the farm was running out of the max horses I could own and the max mares that could be pregnant.
Remember that the barns need to have stalls before you can house horses (that may or may not be finished yet, I have a half built barn and I can add horses until it's full, regardless of only half the stalls being finished).

[GrayJay]

Thanks so much, this really helps! It seems I will be able to add a few more buildings before I have to expand.