The economy was formerly based on chicken coops, cowsheds and field crops. The cowsheds of the royal lineage of Ayodhya viz. It had 116 houses, 31 huts, six public buildings, and 48 cowsheds. Other houses served as residences or as cowsheds, chicken coops or stables, workshops and sheds. The Stud itself retained only eight horse boxes, some cowsheds and a few weed-choked pastures. Watermills, cowsheds, corn driers, wine cellars and kilns were typical farm buildings. These cowsheds were destroyed in a fire in 1877. Conrad Schick planned for open green space in each courtyard, but cowsheds were built instead.