This girl got spoiled for Christmas. Patent leather…
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She almost needs a crown with cob length straps but full dimensions for the anatomical portion, then full everywhere else. Her face is not long, but is big in diameter. Weird shaped head!
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I was at the barn the other day. Barn staff (I worked with them previously) and I were commenting on the… less than stellar grooming skills of many of the newbie riders at the neighboring school barn. The school had switched to grooms tacking all the school horses when reopening during the pandemic (making sure the tack got disinfected before/after each ride, minimal tack handling, etc.), meaning a lot of the riders just didn’t learn how to groom or tack their own horses over this time period.
We were specifically talking about the fact some of the people who are now tacking their own horses just don’t seem to understand the difference between brush softnesses on any level. I don’t mean they’re using a dandy brush on the face, I mean I’ve watched people grab bucket cleaning scrubbers and start brushing. They’ll just grab any brush they see lying about (grooming supplies gets scattered everywhere there) and slap it on a horse. It’s at the point that the 3 offending scrub brushes have gotten a “do not use/for buckets ONLY” sharpied on them.
As we were talking about this, I turn to watch one of the newer trainers start using one of the scrubbers on a horse over in the cross ties. I had to call out to her to NOT use that brush and that it was written in black ON the white brush to not use; she went oops and said she hadn’t been paying attention so she hadn’t noticed the writing. I died a little bit more hearing that.
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So… Crazy Rumor Spreading Lady came to me, unprompted, and apologized. Owned the whole thing.
I told her it’s all fine, and that she is NEVER to do something like that again.
Ten bucks says she’s looking to get something out of me, ie, help with her horses.
Not happening.
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Lol. My boy needs O/S brow band and throat latch, full cheek pieces and cob noseband. Cheese wedge head.
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This is a whole new level of dumb.
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Call me crazy but some scrub brushes probably would work perfectly for removing mud cake if you can’t find a stiff brush to use.
Not sure why they would store the bucket scrub brushes in the same place as the horse grooming tools, to me that is more strange than someone using one on a horse.
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I can’t imagine why anyone would want horse hair and dander on their water bucket scrub brush. Gross.
I keep my scrub brushes adjacent to my grooming brushes; all near the wash rack area as that is where I groom horses and wash buckets 
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Use toilet brushes to scrub water buckets.
Surely no one will think those are horse body brushes?
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I also can not imagine why anyone would want horse hair and dander on their water bucket scrub brush… but that does not mean a bucket scrub brush is a horrible grooming tool.
I had not thought of the wash stall as a grooming tool storage area, probably because I don’t have a wash stall, let alone an inside wash stall. Valid point on that.
I would guess most lesson programs do not have the lesson horse supplies stored in the wash stall.
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Maybe she watched “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas” and had an epiphany? But yeah, one word responses to her in future interactions…mostly “no”.
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If they do maybe they should color-code the brushes, e.g., if it’s white it’s for the buckets. Any other color is for grooming (unless they want to restrict all horse brushes to one color other than white). Surely even a color-blind trainer/student could pay attention enough to tell white from any other color.
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How about hang the bucket brushes by the hose, and any brush by the hose is a bucket brush?
Unless people scrub without swishing/rinsing, that would make the most sense…
I dunno. Probably lots of variety by climate. I’m in sunny FL and outside wash racks that double as cross ties for general grooming are fairly common. If there are community grooming tools (also gross); I’ve seen them stored in the wash rack area. That’s how it was done at the last place I boarded.
Some places of course have nicely labeled kits for each school pony kept in the tack room. Less excuse to grab a toilet brush in that set up.
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All my brushes are by the hose lol. Fortunately it’s just me and I’m not about to use a toilet scrubber on my horse.
Though I’m tempted to do just this for a fun photo. What to do when your horse is a poopie head? Scrub his ears with a toilet brush!
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I had a mustang mare and she LOVED ground work / liberty work. Her ears would be up and she’d watch me for what we were going to do next. My current horse, not so much. He hates lunging and has the perma-pissed look on his face. He’s not crazy about other ground work either.
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One of the very nice amateur ladies has come up with a “brilliant” idea.
In the busiest hallway - clip the crossties together, then clip a blocker ring to the clips. Then tie horse to blocker ring.
This horse bites, and the only thing stopping her from making contact with people passing by are the cross ties.
This is not going to end well…
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Yes, though to be fair to the students (especially the children), they don’t really seem to have been taught how to figure out which brush is which. They just know one should be “hard” and one “soft”.
I’d agree for a real yak of a horse that was caked in mud, but that is not the case here. We’ve got a temperate climate year-round (lowest nights are usually in the 40’s at the worst) and all the horses are stalled. None of the horses are muddy and there is only one yak horse (Cushing’s). I actually have a Haas brush for grooming caked-on mud off and these scrubbers are harder than it.
They’re not supposed to be. All the grooming brushes are supposed to be kept in buckets in the tack room. People tend to just grab some and then take them into the barn to groom, before leaving them there. Eventually, someone else comes through to grab all the misc. grooming supplies lying around and grabs a scrub brush the see. It is not a good system but this is also not my job so I don’t involve myself. I just pull the scrub brushes out to leave far away from the grooming supplies when I see them.
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Oh, the barn staff doesn’t want that either! It is students who keep grabbing them (and the odd duck who isn’t paying attention). In your case it sounds like all the brushes are yours so you know what the brushes are for and aren’t letting people run wild with them.
If the handle broke off I’m sure someone at this barn would assume it was just a particularly pointy horse brush :’)
The scrub brushes look nothing like the grooming brushes. There are only like 2-3 of those versus the ~20+ grooming brushes. The grooming brushes are either all from the original set (all wood-backed and the same color) or are various ones that have been left/donated. The scrub brushes all have handles and look like dish scrubbers. It is mostly children (who don’t do dishes and wouldn’t know what a dish scrub brush even is) or adults paying no attention.
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