What stable accesories do you have?

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Not really for a reason but how many of you use/have anti-weave grills, stallion bars, wall grills, corner mangers etc etc in your stables- What extras do you have in your stables and why? Just interested. :)
 
I have a piece of rope with a large carabiner hanging off it to hang my bridle & hat on in the stable (best mini investment ever!), a piece of bailing twine strung between two points to hang rug on and lucky enough to have an old foaling box so I have a full width chest bar which is great. Automatic water feeder as standard in our stables

Nothing that I have particularly added, horse doesn't weave so no grill needed, prefer them to eat off floor so no manger etc etc
 
A rubber covered chain across the door as our yard can get quite busy at times and the passage way is narrow so sometimes easier to do the horse in the stable and much quicker to duck under the chain than to keep opening the door. :)

A likit holder on a rope that I use for a salt lick.

And a rug rack with bridle hooks on the end - handy as my monster removes any head collars hung outside the door but normally ignores it if left in the stable.
 
We have rubber mats. A small locker in the corner of the stable ( they are big stables), a rug rail on the front wall, a fan in the top of the apex of each stable roof (wooden stables get hot in summer) and reflectors on the skylights in summer. Wooden sliding bars or rubber chains across the doors so they can be left open on hot days. Hooks for head collars high up by the door.
 
Home made rug hangers, hay racks but never use them, I also have feed mangers that swing into the stable from the feed room, very posh but dont use those either difficult to clean and the Arab is terrified of his one when it suddenly swings into hhis stable.
 
I have a heat lamp, a corner manger as I hate feed buckets in boxes and a home made hay bar as I detest haynets. The front part can slide out so I can empty and sweep it every day.

I hate hate hate anything hanging in stables with horses, so my headcollar lives outside the box and rugs in the rug room.
 
Hope your leg is healing!

I moved boxes this week cos pony used his fat bum to bust his back wooden wall. He had an anti weave grill with insert for a while purely because he took it into his head to jump out once or twice when someone was late feeding him. He's now in a breezeblocks box which was totally stripped bar two rings to hang haynets before he went in. The door is high so he can't jump out and there's nowhere to store stuff so I've just bought a grooming bag to have fly spray etc to hand. There's an automatic water drinker in there, that's it, although I did fully mat it too.
 
A plastic covered chain across the door, corner feed manger which I put his feed bucket into to keep it cleaner, hay bar, automatic water feeder, mirror, salt lick and full rubber mats. Love accessorising haha!
 
I have a hay manger as it was in the stable before I moved, rubber mats, a salt lick and that's it! I'm lucky enough to have my space for tack etc behind my stable (but out of reach of the horse) so I can keep everything in there. I don't like having things hanging in my stable or more clutter than is necessary, tbh I wouldn't even like to keep rugs in my stable.
 
Haha, thanks everyone, It's obvious that some of you want the bare minimum and some just love their accessories Yes CT it's healing up okay - I've avoided surgery for now (YAY!) and i have a pwetty purple cast. :)
 
Bespoke hay bar and rug rack on pulley system. Tap and drainage system,with optional automatic water. Mats and stall chain. Salt lick holder. Outside the stable, there's a fold down saddle rack and bridle hook. Hand made tack storage cupboard and trunks for keeping kit accessible and rack for storing stable tools.
 
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Bespoke hay bar and rug rack on pulley system. Tap and drainage system,with optional automatic water. Mats and stall chain. Salt lick holder. Outside the stable, there's a fold down saddle rack and bridle hook. Hand made tack storage cupboard and trunks for keeping kit accessible and rack for storing stable tools.
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How very fancy. ;)
 
new stable has a manger and automatic water drinker.

I can strap my boots to the bars and his nets and salt lick are tied to the bars. There's a little string of baling twine as well if I need it :)

I do miss the manger/shelf my old stable had. was very handy for dumping fly spray, brushes, boots and rugs into because the horses didn't use it!
 
Apart from my horse

Auto waterer, high ring to tie haynet to and chest high ring to tie horse to. Corner manger for feed.

Strong door as madam doesn't like being in much.

That's it! Everything else moves in and out as needed. Rugs go over the door until put on horse or returned to the tack room.
 
I just have a home made rug holder across the back wall. I don't really like it, but it's the only place I can store rugs. Have 2 small plastic cupboards out side to hold grooming kits etc and a hook for the headcollar. Oh and a lickit holder in the stable and that's it.
 
I only have rubber mats and a high ring to tie his haynet to. Tack in the tack room and rugs etc go in my little shed.
 
Rubber mats and that's it! I have two stables in their own barn which has it's own water supply, hay & bedding storage area and a 12' x 10' shed, purely for my use, inside the barn so everything is stored in there.
 
Rubber mats. Also a weave grid - he does not weave but would jump out at the drop of a hat. He has a salt lick. He has 2 hay nets, one with steamed hay and one with haylage so he has a choice. He has a large trug for water clipped to the wall. Plus a generous bed!

Other than that it is stripped out with bars at the window as Jay finds the whole world to be a playground (see weave bars and water attached firmly to the wall, above).
 
Mats, permeant and sealed to floor, tie ring, hay rack and manager and a bucket hook... Mine flood the stable otherwise...
 
In my mares stables she has an anti weave grill, stable bar/guard, stable mats and wall matting, two rug racks, a salt lick holder and metal rings (mostly pink of course!) and on one of the rings she has an equi ping.
 
Tern said:
Not really for a reason but how many of you use/have anti-weave grills, stallion bars, wall grills, corner mangers etc etc in your stables- What extras do you have in your stables and why? Just interested. :)
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Two trunks one with grooming kit fly repellant etc that is under the corner manger. There is a rug rack for their rugs the big 3 arm ones he has two of them and under is another small trunk for his boots. At the front are his bars for when door open and a tongue twister on the wall and also rope to hang the likit when he has one.
A hay rack and also he had weave grill when he was pulling rugs off the wall outside, now he just has a chain across the door set back a bit so he does not kick the door, also tie rings.

Also a stable mirror inside and outside fold down saddle rack and bridle rack and another wall rug rack for his exercise/ hi viz sheets

Their stables are rubber matted
 
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Nothing. Nothing at all! A couple of the stables have fixed water mangers due to shetlands penchants for tipping buckets over! The TB's have big buckets for water. One stable has a feed manger that spins to the outside to be filled so no need to go into the box. Other than that nowt. Rugs go over the door when they are not on the horse or put away in the rug store. I wouldn't ever dream of hanging rugs on racks or lines of string in my stables! I just get images of my horses hanging themselves or getting their legs caught in them rolling! Hence why I don't use haynets either!
 
I have a length of bailing twine hung about my head height for hanging her rugs on, never ever had an issue with her even pulling one off although while it was used for Roo and Mylo I removed string and rugs as while I trust grown up ponio not to trash the rugs etc I certainly wasn't going to trust a foally not to get tangled!!

There's a stone manger in the corner that I have her grooming kit/boots/sprays etc in, it has a stone lip so she can'tpull anything off and a chain on the door.
 
I have horizontal wooden bars that divide the upper part of two stables, there are two sets with a gap in between, this makes an ideal place to hang things (like bottles hung from their trigger sprays) and also things can sit on the wall between the sets of bars. Its probably a no-no nowadays to have horizontal bars though.

I also like the shelf above the overhang and keep rugs in boxes or bags on it

Both bars and shelf can be seen here

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In one corner is a built in brick manger and that is ideal for grooming kit and folded rugs

Apart from the built in features I have added a tie ring, a batten hung on one wall for rugs and a lickit holder which holds a salt lick
 
I have rubber matting and an automatic feeder, then we have a salt lick and two tiny nets for forage blocks. He's fed haylage from the floor.

Outside the stable I have a long rope which holds any rugs we're using at that time of year, a wooden box for general storage and a grooming box, plus one of these for bits and bobs:

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We also have a storage box in the tack room and there's rug storage in the other barn so despite what it sounds like I try to keep the stuff outside his stable to a minimum!
 
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