I train and sell horses, I usually only keep them for a year at a time. Nameplates for every horse is starting to add up, would it be weird to put my last name on it instead? I’ve never seen anyone do it but I don’t see why not?
ETA stall signs too!
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Oh sure! Not weird at all. I’ve seen owner last names or farm names on them. If the halter doesn’t go with them, it’s yours.
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Definitely not weird. You see owner last name or farm/business name on halters all the time. It’s more practical that way if you’re selling often.
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Last name or farm name, makes sense! However, DD won a halter in a show, and decided to have her name put on it. Forever after, she was asked why she named her gelding Michelle.
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I have a handful of nice leather halters with “Flying F Sporthorses” on them instead of names. But my usual go to has been show name on top line, my name below that.
Though I actually started doing something different as a practice for my sales horses. I started putting the horse’s name on the halter (and removing mine) so that when I sold them, the nice leather halter would just go with them as a gift to the buyer.
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I’ve seen plenty of tack nameplates with last names on them, it seems commonplace in many barns I’ve been in. I haven’t seen a stall plate like that, but can’t see why not to do it if it would be more practical.
I do last name only on everything.
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That’s nice. I hate buying a $$$$$ horse and it arrives in some ratty sunbleached nylon halter like the minute the check cleared the seller washed their hands of the horse.
I did have the opposite happen with the foal I imported. His breeders were so proud they went and bought a very fancy show halter with his name… In Horse size. It was falling off his face and the shippers ended up taking it off and using something random hanging around because they were afraid it was so big it would be dangerous to use. The breeder meant well and it’s waiting for him to grow into— but I just about had a heart attack when HorseFlight sent me a photo of him en route with a halter that looked like an accident waiting to happen!
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My everyday halters have my name and phone number on them.
Show halters have horses name on them.
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Nameplates aren’t that expensive. Do you really sell that many horses? Don’t they come with halters when you buy them?
I mostly do imports so they come in nylon ones, not to mention I also do bridle, girth, and stall. It’s truly not that expensive but if I can save the $50 by investing in my own name that would be great!
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I have some a few with my farm name and my name I use for “temporary” horses, and my permanent ones get their own names.
I have my last name on some of my halters because i was leasing horses for a while.
@vxf111 --I bought William Tell at an auction (not the bad kind --the kind where high quality ranch horses are sold --and guaranteed to be everything the seller states) -so I had high bid on William --he’s taken out of the auction ring where he was shown to the bidders saddled and working a cow —I go to his stall --the worker unsaddled him, brushed him off, led him out to my trailer and loaded him (I wanted to make sure he loaded --he did) --when the worker had him in the trailer, he took off the horse’s halter and said: “They call him Will,” and walked away. Good thing I keep a spare halter in my trailer! I thought that was “cheap” in an otherwise top-tier horse auction.
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I don’t own any horses, but prefer to use my own tack on the horses I ride and/or lease. Both of my bridles, my martingale, my neck strap and my lead rope (lead ropes tend to walk off at the barn) all have round tags with my last name on them. My grooming halter and regular halter have names plates with my last name. It makes my stuff easily distinguishable.
When I sold my last horse (only the 2nd horse I’ve sold as an adult) I purchased a halter with the horse’s name and the new owner’s name on the plate. My shetland pony had a new halter with her name on a plate when I sold her.
I like the idea of just the horse name on a sales horse’s halter and selling it with the horse.
Great idea, but farm name of course is awesome too!
Or you send one off on a trial or lease with one halter and lead, and it comes back with something crappy (and usually those godawful nylon twisty leadropes that give such bad burns).
Both my mini donkeys came in crappy, ill-fitting, sunbleached, clearly from the 80s nylon halters. But after trying to find mini DONKEY halters, I sorta forgave them.
I have usually done the horses name on the halter once they start showing. I do have a halter with just my last name on it, which is what my current horse uses. We aren’t showing much now, and I reason that MY last name is also HIS last name lol. But my blankets have my last name, etc. Using my name means I can use it on multiple horses.
Oof. There was a trainer at a barn I rode at who used to switch halters around. Drove me batty. Most of the horses had regular nylon halters, but one horse arrived in a leather one. That leather halter was his for the next 1-2 years that he lived at that barn. Conspicuously, when she sold him his leather halter went to the horse in the neighboring stall (it didn’t fit him) and he went to his new home in a ratty nylon one (that didn’t fit him either). Horses the trainer brought in on trial also sometimes did halter switcheroos, but usually they showed up in a crappy nylon halter and just left with a different nylon halter.
I don’t understand why you would do nameplates at all for a temporary horse. Do most of you really have nameplates on all of your halters?
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