What do you put on your halter name plates? Barn name? Show name? Farm name?
Whatever you would like! Barn name is great if you have a sale business and horses are coming and going.
Barn name is great if you have a home halter and show halter. You can also put the show name in large font on line one and the barn name in smaller font on line 2 if you only have one halter and would like to use it for home and show.
Side note, Quillin makes the most gorgeous, high quality hand stamped brass name plates. They look gorgeous even after a roll in the mud and the deep engraving is unlike most think plates you will find.
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My stall plates have Registered or showname as top line, barn name under that & 2 Dogs Farm as the 3rd line.
Strictly vanity, as it’s just me here 
Halter plates are from horses who have passed, but halters still in use. These have those horses’ show names as they are nice quality leather grooming halters.
All of my halters and lead ropes have the horse’s show name and my farm name underneath. If the horse is jointly owned or syndicated, I either have both farm names (for example, my old equitation horse was co-owned by my farm and my trainer’s farm so it had his name for the first line and Farm 1 & Farm 2 for the second) or the horse’s name and the syndicate (for example, horse’s name for the first line and syndicate name for the second line). Stall plates are 3 lines: show name, barn name, and farm name. The nameplates I take to horse shows are also 3 lines: farm name, owner name, and owner phone number.
My bridle/saddle/martingale/breastplate/draw reins/side reins/etc. plates are all just my farm name. For the saddles that belong to a specific horse, it’s the barn name on top and the horse’s name on the bottom.
I tend to do show name on a show halter, barn name on a turnout halter.
I no put just my horses barn names on their halter. I have a private farm at home and the only time I use their show names is for coggins and horse shows.
Tack = my name or initials except shipping halter which is show name; turn out blankets = barn name; no need for nameplate on barn halters
I use to just use my last name. I’ve been going through a midlife crisis and can’t decide between last name/SOs last name/or barn name.
But if you have more than 1 horse, how do you tell which halter belongs to which horse?
Unless they vary widely in head size…
F’rinstance, I can tell my which is the mini’s halter 
Oooh, so very nice, I was so tempted until I got to the shipping options for one teeny, tiny halter plate, and screws to Canada rates from $40.82 up to $77.79…I think I’ll pass 
Borderline worth the shipping, they are that nice!
We always made time to visit Quillin when we did our annual pilgrimage to the event that was formerly known as Rolex. I still have some halters in circulation a decade + later …
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Horse’s name
My first initial, last name and phone number
Stuff happens. Every fire season people scramble to get their contact info on halters via duct tape and other means. I feel better having it there permanently, all of the time.
Once at a show, I got a phone call about issues with the horse stabled next to mine…my info on the halter was the closest thing to contact information that anyone could find late at night. Thankfully I was able to put them in touch with the owner of the neighbor horse.
Haltertags.com has the best name tags, and reasonably priced. Shipping might take a while.
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My last name on all my show halters, and horses barn name on their barn halters.
Blanket tags, always the horses barn name.
Tack tags, always my initials or last name.
on our dogs’ collar’s plates we have our telephone number, even thought the dogs are chipped recovering the contact info from the chip’s data base at times is flawed …
just a carry over form trying to find the owners of thousands of horses after hurricanes, some with halters but nothing to identify ownership…and believe me a bay horse looks like most any other bay horse when covered in mud.
Our horses, currently all are just pasture horses for pleasure, nothing fancy for them except for Socks who has his name and daughter’s phone number on his plate
I didn’t find that to be the case with the Quillin name plates. They make lovely halters and the plates are impressive at first, but after some use I found that they didn’t look nearly as nice or hold up as well as the ones engraved by our local tack shop. And while I like Quillin and would recommend them, I still prefer my Walsh halters.
My dog has a Quillen collar, and has been wearing it since we got her 8 years ago. Mud, salt water, fresh water, rolling in who knows what…that engraving is still pristine. The brass has a patina, but that’s it. Similar to my dearly departed mares show halter, which after 13 years still looks perfect, now hanging in a shadow box.
My horse has two halters; barn halter has barn name, show halter has show name.
The plates on my Quillins halters have held up the best, hands down, over years and year, compared to any other brand of plates. I’m surprised to hear yours haven’t.
For Halters, Quillin, hands down. Every now and then you can catch some free shipping…but even with shipping, the halters are worth it. Both halter and plate are still beautiful with everyday use and minimal cleaning(my bad).
I just received an award halter(triple stitch) from SmartPak with a plate on it, and for it’s total value of near $100, it’s quite disappointing. IMHO. Don’t get me wrong, it looks pretty, but the leather is stiff and the plate is thin and doesn’t look like it will hold up over time. Luckily, it will probably never actually see a horse, so it’ll stay pretty…and it was free, so whatever. I would never actually pay for that halter though.
I got my Stall Plate from SP Rhodes. They did a beautiful job with it.
Halters: Full registered name
Stall Plate: 1st Line: Full Registered Name, 2nd Line: Breeding, 3rd Line: Farm Name
Plates on Bridles/Breastplate/Saddles/leather leads: I learned my lesson and will do Farm Name from this point forward, though my current bridle/breastplate have my late Gelding’s name on it.
Plate on my Tack Truck has my name and the farm name on the second line.
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I don’t 
we are up to 5 random horses right now… also after I had two nice leather halters destroyed I went out and bought 10 rope halters… I got some hanging in the fence… in the garage… in each vehicle.
If I ever get serious again I’ll go back to nice leather halters.
Now that everyone is talking about Quillins halters I want one. I also thought smartpaks leather halters were nice… that was in 2015.
I sent the people at Albright’s an email on THANKSGIVING and they replied back immediately and offered to call me in between cooking to discuss sizing on their halters!
I already have one of their halters from a trip to Rolex and it is stunning, so I went ahead and ordered a turnout halter with a nameplate to check size on my overstuffed ponies. I can’t say no to someone who answers work emails on a holiday!
