Do you use different grooming kits for all horses?

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Charmaine18

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In horsey books and whatnot, it always says you shouldn't use the same brush on more than one horse - each animal should have its own grooming kit and not use anyone else's to prevent the spread of skin conditions etc. However, none of the yards I've helped out on have ever stuck to this - some just have a communal heap of brushes, some have individual grooming kits for each horse but often put the wrong brush back in the wrong kit and stuff, but none have stuck rigidly to one kit for each horse. Do you follow this rule or not?

I have no special reason for asking, I'm just curious.
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The stallion has his own set. Hmm, curry comb, body brush and hairbrush - does that constitute a set?
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It is not because he's special or anything, just that it seems a bit unfair to groom him with a brush reeking of 'eau de lady horse' he gets to be a pain always trying to sniff the brushes.

Everything else shares. They are all out in the paddocks together, rolling in the same patch, and grooming each other so how using different brushes is going to stop infecting them with anything that they haven't caught from each other already I don't know.

When I actually used to groom for a reason other than simply knocking mud and loose hair off them, I did have sets for white and not white horses, purely because it annoyed me getting white hair on dark horses. I solved that though, just had greys
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All 3 of mine have there own grooming kit which is for no other reason then I have a serious spending habit!
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I don't follow that but I would not use my bay horses brushes on the greys just because he will be covered in white hairs next time I brush him!
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Use the same set, providing there is nothing lurking in the coats that should not be there.

Ro (who I have on loan) has own set but I can't stand using other peoples brushes, I like my own.

I used to have a tack box for each one years ago but to be honest it was just for the sake of it (when I was younger
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), but you can only use one brush at a time if your the only person grooming them.

Having said that, I tell a lie, I had my show grooming box, which I only used at shows, lived in the trailer.
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I share my kit between my two, but I have two kits - one is general every day and the other is my showing kit.

I would not use my brushes on other people's horses and would not like them to use their brushes on mine as a rule though.

With my two, they share a field, so are in daily contact with each and I know they have healthy coats with no skin problems.

That said on the yard I am at now, I would not be bothered if someone used one of my brushes as it is a very small yard and I know they are all healthy and visitor free.
 
Yes each of my horses have their own grooming kits, brushes, hairbrushes, etc etc, have always done this.
 
I do as one of the horses on the yard suffers from mites and although it is being treated I would try not to risk it. And the other horse I ride sometimes is coloured and I don't want to cover her in bay hair or cover mine in white hair
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I have an everyday set and a "show" set but as a rule 3 horses share the same brushes. The horses live out in a herd together and have free contact over the walls when stabled in the winter so I don't see the point in having a set for each unless of course one was sick and then it would be kept seperate with seperate brushes.
 
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I have an everyday set and a "show" set but as a rule 3 horses share the same brushes. The horses live out in a herd together

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Same here. Although, if I got a new horse then for the first week or so Id probably use seperate brushes until I knew it didnt have any skin problems etc.
 
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