Do you keep stuff in your stable?

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WelshD

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I have found I am keeping more and more things to hand in the stable, there are double rows of wood slats above the wall between it and the next one (my store room) that provides a handy ledge to put stuff safely. I also use an inbuilt manger in the corner to house a grooming kit tray and also have rugs hanging from some rope against a wall but do try to ensure that everything is as safe as possible

Back in my youth it was always drummed in to me that there should be as little as possible in a stable though but I see more people doing it now and some people even have mini sheds in their stables

So who keeps stuff in their stable and what would you draw the line at?
 
would personally have nothing in a stable, to risky, but I am old school. Not even rugs.

Should literally be water, bedding and hay fed. Cant stand feed bowls left in there either.

Dont have a stable so everything is in my shed.
 
I have my grooming kit, saddlecloth and odds and ends in a built in hay rack, my lunge whip stands in the corner, traces and chains, and ropes are all coiled and hung on a hook beside the hay rack. I keep her stable rug over the dividing wall, but never leave her turnout in the stable. Everything is in one corner, and she can't get near them as her feed buckets etc block that corner off.
 
Yes, everything, my horse doesn't touch anything, I leave my saddle (chained to a rack on the wall), bridle, rugs etc; everything , his stable I have built in a large bench area on the side where I have boxes etc. but I built his stable for him and it is 5m x 5m so still very big and plenty of room for him.

My stables are padlocked at night though and they are on my private land (at my house).
 
Have to leave rugs in there, but we only try to leave the ones currently being used and store the rest in the feed room, space is at a premium I guess.
 
I used to keep all stuff in a shed until it got broken into and all tack and rugs for four horses stolen, so now I split it up into lockers and stables etc.

I have a tack locker that houses grooming kits and my hat etc, folding rug rails that hold rugs currently in use that are not being worn. All unused rugs for other seasons are washed, packed in plastic, and stored above the overhang (you can see in picture). Each stable probably has about ten rugs up there out of the way.

I used to be old school and hated things in stables, but my stables are 14'x12', so everything is in the extra 2'. The horses never touch anything. Funnily enough, if the rugs are kept over the door the horses always throw them on the floor, but on the racks in the stables they don't touch them.

We used to have a DIY that kept about six "really useful" tubs at the front of the stable as well as all that stuff!

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I have the rugs he is wearing on a daily basis in there (2x stable rugs and a thermatex) and 2 sets of boots. I think all the horses on the yard have rugs in their stables as it is so practical. Don't think I would trust him with much more, if he gets bored when tied up he pulls all his rugs down as it is!
 
My horse often empties his water and plays fetch with himself and his water bucket, any rug if left even for 30 mins is pulled off trampled/ wee's and poo'd on. I can't imagine what fun/ destruction he'd have with tack boxes, cupboards etc left in with him. It would take me a lot longer to collect everything up each time than to walk out to my feed room!
 
On an old yard we were on my horses stable had a hay manger in it, but I used haynets with him because otherwise he would drag it out the manger, through his bed, pee on it, then starve all night :mad:

So in the unused manger I kept a couple of rugs at the botton (a stable/turnout depending on which he was wearing at the time and a fleece cooler) - rugs that I used a lot, then a grooming kit and his boots on top. I also had a lockable grooming kit which I kept a stash of chocolate and fizzy juice for myself haha

He was never bothered by what was stored in there. I wouldn't ever put a metal cabinet or the likes in there - like the picture shown in the thread - as that is far too risky IMO. I would be too worried about him rolling and smashing his leg/hoof off of it or something.
 
peony said:
. I wouldn't ever put a metal cabinet or the likes in there - like the picture shown in the thread - as that is far too risky IMO. I would be too worried about him rolling and smashing his leg/hoof off of it or something.
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Highly unlikely, although some people have neurotic horses I guess. It did worry me a bit at first when we first put them it, but the edges are smoothed off, and they are bolted onto the wall. I've had them in with 4 horses, two of which are big ISH, and nothing has so much as scratched them. They are good big stables though. If something were to kick them, they would just make a racket and stop them, more than likely. We had to do something when all the tack etc was stolen and we didn't have room to store four sets of equipment in the house..
 
mine has rugs hung in his stable, and I leave brushes and a schooling whip on the "shelf" half way up the wall. I doubt he could do any damage to himself with his grooming brushes to be honest, so not all together worried about it ;)
 
I sometime leave a hoof pick on the ledge and if boots got wet I'd dry them out on rug rail. 2 or 3 rugs that are being used are also hung on the wall.

But no I don't leave my grooming kit or tack ect in there.

I like to have a large bed with banks and then water and haynet at front by the door. So I wouldn't know where to put a chest.
 
With my old pony you could keep anything in his stable and he would leave it alone. Current pony used to chuck her brushes in her water/out the door and destroy anything so no I wouldn't keep anything in with her!
 
I have two rug racks on the wall that have all my rugs, hat, gloves, body protector and hi vis stiff on. I also have one of those small plastic garden chests in the stable that has my grooming kit, first aid kit, spare bit of tack etc in
 
I have a rug rail for 4/5 rugs I'm using and keep my grooming kit stuffed under it. Apart from that, no. I'd hate to see what she'd do to herself otherwise :o i do leave feed buckets in though, she just kicks them under her water drinker once she's done, same place every day lol.
 
No I dont, but that is cause if I do leave my brush occassionally on the sledge she has it in her bed covered in poo in the morning and she never really been into investigating thing. Other reason is because one day a friend left me a present in my feed manger (its a swingy one and always outside the stable as I use rubber buckets) and my mare got her teeth on it and then dropped it. She made a right mess but thankfully not in the stable but she could have hurt herself if she did.
 
Rugs I use a lot (waffle and the other turnout rug) live in the hay rack - hay goes on the floor. There's a tube of filtabac sitting on a ledge that I keep forgetting to move, but nothing apart from that.

Neddy is horrified by the thought of feed buckets left in overnight, so he tidies them up by chucking them into the yard once he's finished.
 
No, just bedding, water buckets, & forage on floor. Both of my two would just fling or mess with anything left in there. Don't even leave haynets or feed buckets in.
 
i have an outdoor plastic trunk in both Taz and Rio's stables. Rio opens the lid and fills it with hay then closes it again but other than that he doesnt touch it and i dont think Taz has even noticed he has one :o. I keep rugs, boots, saddle cloths, spare head collars, grooming kits and bridles in there. Taz also has a lunge whip standing in the corner and his leg wraps hanging off a waterpipe... im such a bad mum! In all seriousness though if i didnt keep it in their stable i have NO WHERE to keep it :(
 
No I don't leave anything in his stable. I've got space outside my stable for his current stable rugs, grooming kit, buckets, our stables are in an American barn, and then I've got my tack and everything else in our tack room
 
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