Horse scared after cross tie incident

[fivestrideline]

We 100% use crossties. Only one barn recently (years) even had a spot to straight tie! Almost no one used it.

However, I HATE aisle crossties AND single ties in a busy barn. You spend more time moving horses around than you do tied! Everywhere I’ve been had grooming stalls, or was on a shed row so you could just walk horses out and around. I just do not like horses tied in the main horse walkways, ever.

[Zevida]

Love cross ties in wash stalls and grooming stalls.

Hate cross ties in aisles of busy barns. If you have a private barn or a very quiet barn maybe. Otherwise, eventually there’s going to be a problem like the one in this thread.

[Scribbler]

Cross ties in a grooming stall can be useful for green horses or in a lesson program. Cross ties in an aisle seem like a disaster waiting to happen. We don’t have cross ties in my current barn. We have stalls with runouts. Our horses learn to stand quietly in the stall while we put on saddle and hoof boots. My mare can even be trimmed with no halter just stands there. When I started with her she was green and 6 and I tied her to a ring in the wall until I saw that she was automatically parking herself in that corner when she saw me arrive

I do tie her with a trailer clip end tie, twine loop and nylon halter at the wash rack because she will start wandering after weeds. Some horses do just stand untied at the wash rack.