Generic Halter Nameplate Ideas for Sales Horses?

[Destiny1]

Hi! Didn’t know where else to put this. I am not a trainer, I do not own my own barn. However, I absolutely love working with projects and helping develop them to the point where they are ready for their new home. As a result, I have horses coming and going a few times a year. I really want to get a nice leather halter for when I take my horses to shows, or for sales pictures, but I also want it to have a nameplate so it doesn’t get lost or accidentally stolen. I do ride with a trainer at a pretty big stable, but she does not run a sales barn and I don’t want to confuse people.

All of that to say, any ideas on what I should get engraved on the halter nameplate? Just doing my name feels strange, but maybe that’s normal? I could put the barn name with my name underneath, but working with project horses is my own side hobby, not my trainer’s, so that feels a little weird too. My trainer wouldn’t care, I just don’t want people to get confused. Or maybe I’m just really overthinking this and that’s totally fine too.

Any ideas are welcome! I just want something that identifies the halter as mine and is generic enough to go on any horse I happen to have

[Renn_aissance]

Put your name on it. This is normal! Most often I’ve seen it with people’s last names, particularly among people who lease horses and don’t want to have to replace an expensive nameplate when the horse goes home at the end of the year.

[outerbanks77]

I think I would get one of the bridle nameplates that rivets on and attach it to a more discreet location, and put my name on it. That way people won’t be confused that it’s the horse’s name. Also, a riveted plate will be harder to remove if it’s “accidentally” stolen.

[LilRanger]

How about: For Sale, with your name below?

[furlong47]

Either your name or make up a little name for your “training business (hobby)”. Plenty of people work out of another’s barn but have a separate name for what they do.

[Libby2563]

I would put my name on the plate, but instead of putting the plate on a cheekpiece I would put it on the crownpiece. To me the cheekpiece would make it look like the horse’s name. On the crownpiece the plate wouldn’t be so visible, but it would still be identifiable as your halter.

[Jo]

@furlong47

Either your name or make up a little name for your “training business (hobby)”. Plenty of people work out of another’s barn but have a separate name for what they do.

This. Almost everyone I know who has a side hustle has their own “farm name.”

[HorseGal500]

You could do your first initial and last name for the plate, and then each horse gets a little halter tag, depending on how much you want to personalize or have a little memento?

[Mulligan314]

Time to name the side hustle! I put our farm name on general items now. But, I also second(third?) the first/last name option as well. I’d totally take the opportunity to name the side hustle though. haha.

[fordtraktor]

I have a few with my farm name and my name below in smaller type. When I get a longer term project or a keeper they get upgraded to their own name.

[joiedevie99]

I’d either go with your farm/hobby name, or do your monogram. I have my monogram on a lot of stuff that gets shared between my horses. My last name is too likely to be mistaken for a horse name.

[Tha_Ridge]

I do my last name. Guys at the barn don’t necessarily know my LLC side-hustle name, if halters get mixed up, but they know my name, so it helps keep things straight. I have my last name on everything. Love Albright’s of Ocala for beautiful leather halters with plates!

[soloudinhere]

It’s very common to see a last name on a halter plate, or farm name. My last horse didn’t have his own halter for 3 years.

[xQHDQ]

How about a small nameplate with your name that goes on the crown? You won’t see it in pictures but it will be able to be identified.