Following on from hot cloth-ing post, any old-school tips you know of?

Crossing the throatlash (reins looped through) on a bridle when it is hung up AND putting the noseband outside the cheekpieces.

Undoing a noseband before taking bridle off, amazing how many people just haul it off unbuckled.

Is it still par for the course to 'dunk' bits before hanging bridles up?

Numnahs/saddlecloths off and turned upside down OVER saddle after use.

Leave your horse to eat his feed in peace.
 
one of the few things that I acutally can do
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, although have not done it for years but still make them when bored, how sad am I
 
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Crossing the throatlash (reins looped through) on a bridle when it is hung up AND putting the noseband outside the cheekpieces.

Undoing a noseband before taking bridle off, amazing how many people just haul it off unbuckled.

Is it still par for the course to 'dunk' bits before hanging bridles up?

Numnahs/saddlecloths off and turned upside down OVER saddle after use.

Leave your horse to eat his feed in peace.

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Ditto to all the above, hate it when people dont undo the noseband.

And I always dunk the bit after use
 
Water before feed .. yes I know they have water constantly, but we always top up water and then leave them for a bit before feeding.

Bran mashes if they have to stand in without work or turnout for more than one day, I still automatically think 'lax diet' the minute a horse is off work!
 
Tying a sack full of hot bran onto a hoof as a poultice. And kaolin paste on a swelling and bandaged to draw the heat out... and I still tub with Epsom salts...blimey I'm feeling really old now!
 
I use a piece of spare baler twine to saw through the twine on baled straw and hay.

Always have a metal curry comb to hand, and must get my "string vest" sweat rug back from my mum's!

I also spit on the bar of saddle soap to get just the right amount moisture into it and the sponge. I suppose that's where "spit and polish" comes from.
 
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Crossing the throatlash (reins looped through) on a bridle when it is hung up AND putting the noseband outside the cheekpieces.

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I ALWAYS do this when I put my tack away! Got really quite wound up when my sharer was just dumping the bridle back.
 
We roll up our leadropes at the RS - it just makes everything look tidier. And I couldn't live without my metal curry comb! I hate to use a dirty brush on my nice clean pony!
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Spitting in the saddle soap too - took me a while to get used to that because it seemed kind of gross, but every time the YO sees me cleaning tack she growls "gob in it!" so now I do, and it does work. Definitely always undo the noseband - why would anyone not do that? I must say I don't rinse my bit every time I use it, but I do if he got a sneaky mouthful of grass and the bit's all gunked up.

I think the yard manager at the RS is fairly old-fashioned, but there's nothing she doesn't know about looking after horses and they're all very happy and well cared for, so I'm thinking it's not a bad thing.
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Has anyone every trodden on the spiky side of a metal curry comb, when in bare feet?

A girl on our riding holiday many MANY! years ago did! OMG it was awful. Blood everywhere.

So my tip would be don't leave a metal curry comb, spiky side up, on your bedroom floor where you might stand on it !!!!
 
QR- I'm 19 and i do a fair amount of the things listed. Scary to think that they're thought of as 'old school'. I own and use my metal curry comb, i have the rolled up leadrope thing happening, bridles are hung up with the reins through the throatlatch- my martingale gets tied up there too, undo the noseband before taking the bridle off- can't be comfy for teh horse!, my 'rab c nesbitt' string vest for my sweaty horse, undo the girth at both sides then take the saddle off, travel my horse in his leather headcollar.
Leadrope tied to a bit and the horse left standing makes my toes curl.
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Just out of curiosity- what about time between riding and feeding? Is there any set guidelines that you've been taught? , set amount of time, or just when the horse is cool enough?

I normally wait half an hour if its light work, or an hour if the horse has worked harder.
 
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Has anyone every trodden on the spiky side of a metal curry comb, when in bare feet?

A girl on our riding holiday many MANY! years ago did! OMG it was awful. Blood everywhere.

So my tip would be don't leave a metal curry comb, spiky side up, on your bedroom floor where you might stand on it !!!!

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i was reading this thinking "anyone on the yard in bare feet totally deserves that kind of agony" and then read the "bedroom floor" bit.

umm, why was her grooming kit scattered around the bedroom floor? was it pink and sparkly, by any chance?!
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i've stood on a 3-point electric plug in the dark with my full weight, that was indescribably painful (but no blood), i imagine a metal curry comb would be excruciating. let that be a lesson to us all. grooming kits, if you really must have them in your bedrooms, should be tidied away..
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btw, i know people who use the metal curry comb on the horse to get rid of moulting hair... owwwwwwww, that is NOT what they're for!
 
I think I do all the old school things. One thing I don't do now but used to when our "ride" was trying to win the best kept stables at pony club back in the late 1960s was plaiting the end of the straw bed. You laid a pitchfork down to get a straight line then somehow plaited the end of the straw bed to get a tidy finish and had a clean brushed space between the end of that and the door. Bit more difficult now with the shavings beds! Re the question about riding and feeding, I think I was always taught an hour but that said the full liveries at the yard where I am often have the feed waiting for them in their boxes when they come back from a ride which I personally don't like but they seem to survive okay!
 
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btw, i know people who use the metal curry comb on the horse to get rid of moulting hair... owwwwwwww, that is NOT what they're for!

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Yep, they do this at our yard!!
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I once caught a groom doing this to PF. She was absolutely writhing with discomfort and when I told him to stop immediately (or I'd have his privates off
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) he said she had to get used to it. "WHY?" I asked in a very loud, cross voice. Oddly enough he didn't have an answer for that. Stupid arse. WTF are RUBBER curry combs for??. I don't let the grooms groom my neds any more.
 
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