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I hang mine on the bridle hook
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Our bridle hooks are inside the tack shed. I hang them up there when I am finished. I suppose I could ask hubby to put some hooks outside the shed for the halters while we are riding. I actually never thought of that until now. Doh!
Quality tack and training equipment made in the U.S., U.K., or Germany by skilled craftsmen.
Nowadays it’s a game in which the brands retail imported Chinese or Indian goods and try to avoid disclosing the origin. Some is decent quality but nowadays I stalk eBay and consignment stores to find quality used tack rather than buying cheap imports, after having pot metal snaps break, stitching unravel, etc. too many times to feel safe.
Definitely not an improvement IME. 
Since it is your own place definitely a little different than a busy lesson barn too 
Might want to use the rubber tack hooks which will bend and release if a horse pulls on what’s on the hook or “investigates” the hook on its own. (I saw one scratching an itch on one of these, got it’s halter hooked but just pulled off instead of being a crisis.)
Admittedly I do not hang my horse’s halter up after putting her bridle on. She is in pasture board so I don’t want to use someone else’s stall hook. I do tuck it into my grooming box so it’s out of the way and not on the floor.
This thread has been a wonderful jog down memory lane.
Our feed bins were divided into to 3 sections: sweet feed, cracked corn, and crimped oats. Every horse got some combination of the three. No supplements other than a giant jug of corn oil and a big container of Bute pills, which we had to crush before feeding them should a horse require them.
And if a horse needed antibiotics, the vet would drop off enough jars of it (liquid), and dozens of needles and syringes. Often the dosage was 2-3 injections a day for a week to 10 days! IM of course, not IV. The poor horses’ necks were inevitably super sore by the end of the course because none of us teens who worked in the barn liked injecting in the rump.
It was a regular part of grooming at one farm where I worked when I was young. The owner was from Britain though. Lots of folks in the U.S. don’t know what it is. I explained it on the racing forum to a poster who had never heard of it.
I remember when zippers on boots were considered gauche.
I’m the DC of an adult only club and I will say, though we are “allowed” it’s become clear we aren’t actually welcome. Which is sad because the HM program is the largest growing segment of USPC and overall numbers are declining.
The USPC compliance team views any adults in PC as being there for the wrong reasons and are now requiring members to do SS and a background check (adding $$$ to membership fees). Our club is just a bunch of adults who want to be better horsewoman and do fun things with their horses-they only interact with juniors when doing things like volunteering
I hope that the requirements aren’t keeping people from joining. It is a pain, but unfortunately a necessary one, to keep the kids safe.
This is not really related to the OP but to respond to this, as a parent myself I understand this. But as a club leader, it’s hard to justify adding even more to already high membership fees. As a club, we are only a few years old, so we have limited funds and are not able to offset these costs for our members unless we cut into funds we use for club activities.
I’ve asked the USPC to meet to discuss options such as reducing memberships to offset the costs, exploring less expensive options for the BC, offfering a USEF code for fan memberships tv, so that we do not lose members but they refused my request. We as a club have zero interaction with minors other than volunteering at things like the regional rally or teaching cert preps. We do not do joint meetings, my members could care less about competing or doing national certs-they just want to learn as much as they can so they can improve their horsemanship. If they wanted to be around children for the wrong reasons, they sure picked the wrong club to join…
So why not just split off from USPC and have your own club of adults? I belong to an equestrian club that used to be a chapter of a national organization. After a few years we realized we weren’t really following their program or getting much out of the affiliation that we paid dues for, so we discontinued that and just went on as an independent group. The club is 15 years old now and I think we left about 10 years ago. Our membership fee is $25/year and we might rarely have a meeting with an additional charge involved (usually for something extra and just social/fun like one of those wine and paint nights or attending the horse expo as a group). Under normal circumstances we don’t have too much of a problem filling a calendar with educational talks, demos, and tours. The club joined our state equine council as an association and has liability insurance through it… for much less than we were paying our former organization in dues.
I had one friend who used one … come to think of it that was 15 years ago! Good grief.
That seems like a good idea. @Jersey_Fresh , is there any reason that it wouldn’t work for your club?
This was for sure an option we came up with and we’re looking into it, but the two biggest hurdles are 1. Insurance (we get ours for mounted meetings and our dressage through USPC) and 2. We are under the 5013c of USPC, so if we split off we can’t keep any of our club funds so we’d need to find a way to get some start up capitol. I haven’t had a chance to get insurance quotes yet. Our plan for 2021 is to operate as normal and open up the discussion with our members to see what they want to do.
It’s just sad to me because our club is one of the largest in the region (#2 i think), and overall national “traditional” memberships as someone stated above are declining year after year while HM was growing.
I had forgotten about these! I used them as a child religiously (unless you were shipping a true pony), but haven’t seen one in years. It was beat into me that they were essential, and I suddenly feel like I’m neglecting my mare… Wonder if you can still find them.
100% agree. I didn’t actually have the fortune to own a horse until fairly recently, and I turned the world upside down looking for a true, thick wool cooler for her (you can find them in wool now but they call them “dress sheets” and they are about twice as thick as a scrim - hardly useful). The one I have now isn’t often needed, but when you need it you need it. You can pry it out of my cold, dead hands thank you very much.
I think Shires still sells the really thick wool ones, at least I got a Norfolk stripe (if that’s what the pattern is called. You know: the marigold, black and red) heavy wool cooler and quarter sheet a couple of years ago.
Not that they’re unfashionable but they’re really showing their age and starting to fall apart. Plus there’s something gross stuck on them that won’t wash off.
Accidently quoted the wrong one.
Thanks Mod!
Newmarket! Can anyone confirm if shires makes them in wool? I bought a Newmarket quarter sheet from them and it was fleece 
Lucky for me i have several Newmarket’s Made by earlys
Accidently quoted the wrong post. Sorry Frugal Annie, not that your post isn’t interesting but I meant to thank the Mod for telling me how to insert quotes.
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