Wow! Brandi, what I learned was just how large your training program is. I had no idea that you taught that many students. How in the world do you have the time to teach so many? I'm impressed! But tired just thinking about it. Bless your heart! When do you sleep! ☺
Great video! Once I went to a summer camp where there were around 20 kids grooming horses at the same time, and the horses didn’t have individual grooming kits so we could never find the right brushes! Individual grooming kits are SO convenient and I love the colour coding idea :)
Brandi, I knew of a horse that choked on a Chicago screw because it came off the bridle and it almost killed the horse. I throw all the Chicago and add holes in the leather and use leather strings to tie it. That was the way almost all Western bridles were when I was young. I loved the video, I wish I had a tack room, my tack is crammed into my feed room which is not good!
I love your organization, great way to organize a tack room. And I love the colour coded groom kits for each horse. It drives me crazy when people share brushes from different horses, for the exact reason you mention. Thanks for the tour of your tack room.
You are so organized I'm jealous! I like the idea of labels on everything, especially since you have so many students it would be easy to end up with complete chaos. Also Clover & friends are always fun to watch. Thanks for showing us your tack room!
Wow you have a lot of tack , having all of the camps and doing lessons means you need it all. I have enough tack for all of my horses but cinch stays o my saddle and goes onto every horse I ride. You have a small fortune invested in tack , I figured out one day that I had $30,000 worth of tack and with lots of robberies going on I put a lock on the tack room and I keep the door shut if someone drives in the yard.
AndersonCattleCo. I do the same with my personal saddle. Just one cinch and it never comes off. The lesson saddles are a different story because of the variety of sizes of horses. My personal tack is kept separate and so is my boarders. It really does add up a little piece at a time.
Love your videos! I especially love watching the development of the beautiful little Manzer. His Mom is also a true beauty. Keep up the great work. Your family is very lucky.
Another brill video, my bay quarter horse mare, Cookie, has a few pink bridles, I prefer using rope halters when I'm teaching, I also teach kids and adults how to ride, everyone absolutely adores my palomino stallion, Mizar, because he's so patient and we'll behaved
Oh dear! I thought a tack room would be where you tack on horse shoes! Or tack some leather together for a bridle or reigns. Yep. I’m that guy waiting in the clue bus when it comes to riding equipment. 😆 But I’m learning! Thanks for the tour. 💕🙏☮️
Glad you enjoyed it! I've talked about a few pieces of tack in other videos but I think it will be good to explain some of my favorite tack and how/why I use it.
I do the same with the buckets for each horse I have in for foaling or rehabilitation. It is so easy to disinfect everything in the bucket when that horse returns to its owner. As for the saddles and pads, again they are labeled for each horse, as I only, usually have 3 or 4 in at any given time. Bridles and cinches, the same as you, as each horse usually needs a different cinch, and I put my halters, all western halters, over where the bridle is. Halter above, bridle below. I'm known as the Label Queen at the barn. If it has a label, no one uses that but me, as these are not my own horses. They are there and in my care, I say mine, but in reality they belong to someone else. Mares and foals get a ton of attention after the bonding time of 4 days minimum has passed. Just my personal preference, because again, I'm entrusted with their care, and I don't want a maiden mare to get anxious and then reject the foal. If I have a very troubled horse that had been abused, again, only the barn owner and myself will work with that horse until it is safe. I carry a personal liability insurance of 1,000,000 dollars CDN, on the off chance someone doesn't follow the rules and gets hurt. I love how you have the extra helmets. Will have to incorporate that into the main barn for the owner, who lets me do what I do on his property. I think that is a great idea!! Best Regards from Ontario, Canada, Jenn.
@@VersatileHorsemanship LOL That's how I refer to non web halters. The halters that a horse can brace itself against. The thinner "western" style halters, made of rope or whatever, a horse can't brace back against as easily and they tend to give to a very light pressure easier. I just love them!! I recently had a very bad behaved stud in for rehab over the summer. I put one of these halters on him and put a catch rope on it that had no clip. As he would turn his butt when you would go to the door. I prefer 2 eyes as opposed to 2 heels when I get to a stall door to feed. By the time he went back, he was a gentleman. And the owner showed his appreciation for all I did in my last cheque!! Was great!! Best Regards from Ontario, Jenn
Jennifer Lehman gotcha. Rope halters are all I use. I find nylon halters to be completely useless. I own a few leather halters but they are only used for photos and for halter and showmanship classes at local shows.
Hey if you organized you tapes so they alll lay flat biggest to smallest you could get more tape on there and I do love the idea of using a toilet plunger for tape I do crafts so I have tape and crepe paper rolls I use for making miniature world camp out shadow boxes with realistic fire hotdogs and s’mores thanks for the idea for all those rolls
So wait....you need to organize the tack room? Looks pretty good to me! LOL 😂 I've seen some tack rooms(insert horror movie voice here...I've seen somethings.....) your's is pretty good! I love the stand in the center with all the tack on it! The helmet stands are so cool! I have no suggestions. Cause really it's not too bad. 😊
Missy S haha, thank you! The bridles get confusing so I need to tackle that for sure. I’m going to purge some things, upgrade some stuff, and go through all the totes. Where the bridles are there are a ton of totes tucked under the platform. I’m not even sure what’s in some of them 😳 so.... much.... stuff.... I also need to figure out a way to label the saddle racks so kids remember where they go 🤔
@@VersatileHorsemanship that's the stuff we struggle with at the barn where my daughter and I ride. When I'm helping with a group lesson or party the main part of the help is showing the kids where to put things back to. There's always room to improve! Good luck! Can't wait to see the outcome! PS mystery bins are always a nightmare 😱 I have some of those in my own house lol 😜😂 and I know you love to label things with tape....but maybe a small investment in a label maker might be worth it! Their brighter and easier to read. Especially for those young ones. 😄
Missy S I have a label maker and I don’t like it. The labels fall off in the barn. I found that masking tape sticks to almost any surface and peels off clean when I decide to change everything around. Plus I can make the writing much bigger so it’s more visible. Fun colors are a must! I think I’m going to name all the saddles after famous horsemen and women and put tape on the wall with their names. The name tags will only be visible when the saddle is gone. It will be a good way for riders to remember some very influential names and there will be a story behind each one.
@@VersatileHorsemanship oooo I like that! Naming saddles makes it easier and it's educational too! Very clever! 😄 And I see your point with the masking tape! Fun colors are a must!
Nice tack room The one at the barn where I board my horse is covered in a thick layer of dirt. It is not in a closed off space but open to the barn. Hard to keep tack in pristine shape ( I keep my tack at home and schlep it back and forth).
yeah thats tough, we have a lot of dust and dirt as well as cats that like to climb around. I keep covers on most of the english saddles. A lot of my tack is used daily so its not such a big deal.
Couple hundred.....😲 That's SO awesome. Ok dumb question.....Do they bring their horses to you or how many horses you have? I'm pretty new to this channel so please forgive the many questions.
What an organization 👍 everything is so tidy and quickly found. Great job👏. You have both Western and English material : do Americans ride English style too ? Can you ride Western style on English material and vice-versa saddle etc ? Which is best for both rider and horse : ride Western on Western equipment an English on English equipment ? In France they mostly ride English style. Do you ride bitless as well as with bridle and bit ?
Martine in France you put a smile on my face. Yes, Americans ride English style. A lot of people can ride both styles. Some prefer one over the other depending on the horse and interests. I personally prefer Western because I grew up in Washington state and road my horse in the mountains and flats of northern Washington No arenas or flat ground for riding
I went to a riding center to volunteer around the domestic horses and after scooping poop in a paddock for the first time I cleaned tack and just like I saw on a YT video the room smelled damp. Your tack room is so airy but do you still have to do something to prevent mildew like issues? Thank you for being an on screen teacher and helping me here. Have a wonderful day! Laural
Mold and mildew is a big issue in our area as the humidity is very high. Mix that with sweaty horses and it gets pretty yucky. Just like a piece of sterling silver jewelry, My secret to keeping tack looking good is to use it often. We saddle blankets are left in the sun to dry before putting back in the tack room and anything that gets cleaned is not put away until its dry. Someday I'd like to put some fans in the tack room, but for now it works out pretty good.
@@VersatileHorsemanship ok thank you love yorechannel and your horsemanship Ps say a prayer for my horse he is ghoing thru a choking fase and tomorrow is my birthday party (the 22)
Kinzhorses haha! Definitely far from rich. I’ve been giving riding lessons since I was 12 and this is all the lesson Tack I’ve accumulated over the last 27 years. I have 15 horses.
