Storage ideas

[Cosmogirl]

I don't currently have any storage available, apart from my feed in the feed room provided but that is cramped. With winter coming I am conscious I will need somewhere to store rugs, but rug racks are not allowed. Does anyone have any genius solutions, or any storage hacks for other items?



TIA

 

[Honey08]

Sounds like a fussy yard! How can they not allow any storage or rug racks! What are you supposed to do with wet rugs? Ive had liveries that want to bring à ridiculous amount of stuff, but there is a balance!

(sorry non of this helps you! Could you store things at home?)

 

[Dave's Mam]

I hang mine on shelf brackets.

 

[poiuytrewq]

What does everyone else do?
Can you put string washing lines across the wall inside your stable to hang stuff over?
Or would they accept one of those big garden storage boxes neatly outside your door?

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

Either make some temporary hangers in stable I use drainpipe with rope hanging from the rafters, and I have some in a garden storage box in the garage but my horses are at home.

 

[dorsetladette]

What do other liveries do?

If you horse doesn't play with things like mine do then a string along the back wall of your stable for a couple of rugs could work.

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

Or those big metal hooks if you have somewhere to hang them.

 

[Highmileagecob]

I have a bookcase in the tackroom with lidded boxes on the shelves. At the back of the stable is a big heavy Ikea storage unit, two cupboards and three drawers. Takes all the dry folded up rugs. An old ironing board does good service as a rug dryer.

 

[blitznbobs]

I don't currently have any storage available, apart from my feed in the feed room provided but that is cramped. With winter coming I am conscious I will need somewhere to store rugs, but rug racks are not allowed. Does anyone have any genius solutions, or any storage hacks for other items?



TIA

Hooks inside or outside stable high up to hang rugs

 

[SantaVera]

I keep rugs in a metal feed bin. Keeps rodents out

 

[Cosmogirl]

Thanks for all your replies, some great ideas. I'm not sure what the other liveries do, some do have rug racks outside their stables, but I don't and nowhere to attach one.
The storage box idea is one I think would work best, I'm just dreading wet, muddy turnouts

 

[MereChristmas]

I'm just dreading wet, muddy turnouts

leave them on the horse to dry. Nothing worse than putting a cold wet rug on.

 

[criso]

I have a shires rug storage bag, the large one fits more than they say and the material is tough enough that I've never had problems with rodents. That's for the ones not in use, the ones in use are hung up in the stable.

 

[Highmileagecob]

If the horse is dry underneath the wet, muddy rug - leave it on!

 

[SpotsandBays]

Agree, if the rug is wet/muddy, leave it on to dry. Hose it off a little before hand to get the mud off (i don’t usually bother tbh ). IKEA do some great big storage bags for £3 that are good for rugs too

 

[Birker2020]

If the horse is dry underneath the wet, muddy rug - leave it on!

Would you leave it on overnight though??
I always feel that a stable rug is for overnight and a turnout is for turnout. Plus would it not all drip onto your clean and dry bed? I get how it dries with the heat from the horses body though. Is it not easier just to have two of everything?

Its probably my OCD that is kicking in tbh

 

[criso]

The turnout rug at night is s debate that goes back and forth regularly. I don't like it because I don't like my turnout rugs getting covered in poo and wee and I avoid washing them. Stable rugs get washed very regularly. I also don't always have the same weight in the stable as turnout.

But using one works for lots of people.

 

[Fieldlife]

Would you leave it on overnight though??
I always feel that a stable rug is for overnight and a turnout is for turnout. Plus would it not all drip onto your clean and dry bed? I get how it dries with the heat from the horses body though. Is it not easier just to have two of everything?

Its probably my OCD that is kicking in tbh

I have a lot more than two of every rug. (Partly because I find if take a wet turnout off to ride, can then get wet through, and take a few days to dry in depths of winter, so need multiples.

It only works though if you have a rug drying space / location. If you dont have a drying space then keeping them on horse is best way to dry rugs. .

Plus in winter I find a wet turnout can take 2 days to dry off the horse, if you dont have a heated space, and the weather is cold and damp. So can need 3 or more rugs if take them off to dry and have persistent rain!

Personally my fields are not so muddy turnout rugs come in dripping mud into the stable.

I clip in winter, and use liners under a good no fill turnout. I was the liners when they get greasy.

 

[Highmileagecob]

My old boy has access to an outside space attached to his stable, and also daytime turnout all winter, so perhaps I'm not the best person to ask!

 

[Cocorules]

When I had this, I took the rugs home to dry out. I lived alone then and drove to and from the horses.

 

[MuddyMonster]

I have a garden storage box outside my stable for rugs not in regular use (and other things) & a string above it for rugs in more regular use. I fit pretty much everything I own/need at the yard bar my grooming kit into the box so it works well.

I don't have that many rugs though - a couple of sheets, coolers and then I use liners so just have two turn out rugs.

If very wet, I just lay on top of my hay to dry out.

Would you leave it on overnight though??
I always feel that a stable rug is for overnight and a turnout is for turnout. Plus would it not all drip onto your clean and dry bed? I get how it dries with the heat from the horses body though. Is it not easier just to have two of everything?

Its probably my OCD that is kicking in tbh

I generally keep turn out rugs on overnight, never had an issue with rugs dripping onto bedding but I used to have a big straw bed & I now use wood pellets so super absorbent.

Modern day turnout rugs are so lightweight & convenient for me it makes more sense, especially as I don't want two of every rug weight - far too much to store for one thing!

I just use a cotton sheet or waffle cooler under the rug so I can wash that regularly to prevent build up of grease against the coat.