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After the 2nd break in within a year we are looking at our yard security. We obviously dont keep saddles at the yard but are looking at possible cabinets for inside stables to put a bridle in, does anyone have any tips or recommendations ? We are also looking into solar powered cctv ( we dont have electricity only a generator ). So any ideas for yard security would be great. Thanx
 
Mark, double mark and triple mark all your stuff. Rugs, wheelbarrows, stable tools, bridles. Everything. Not sure that cabinets inside stables are a good idea. Might encourage low life robbers into the stables with the horses? Unless the horses live out of course.
 
we did worry about having cabinets in the stables and the whole inviting the sc*m into the stable but it would be possible to make it part of the wall ( if you see what I mean !!) we will also keep these as small as possible. Thanks for the marking tip
 
contact your local neighbourhood watch and you can buy a product called smartwater off them for about 20 quid. You can mark everything with this and it has a permanent but invisible trace to your own postcode for life, revealed under UV light. They will give you posters too which may act as a deterrent.
 
Another recommendation to mark everything, from the wheelbarrows to the rugs to tack with your post code, then put up big signs stating that all property on the yard is marked and identifiable
 
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Another recommendation to mark everything, from the wheelbarrows to the rugs to tack with your post code, then put up big signs stating that all property on the yard is marked and identifiable

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What would you use to mark your tack?
 
Plenty of security lights, alarmed premises, steel door on tackroom, iron bars on windows of tackrooms etc, proper barrel locks on tack room door etc. To be honest you can do all of these things to hopefully deter thieves, but if someone wants to take something, they will unfortunately try to take it anyway !
 
Sorry to read that you have been done twice this year.
Make sure wheelbarrows are put away anything that will help low life take things away quicker should be locked away. I have a steel locker that has two locks made by a gun smith takes 8 bridles and 3 saddles and still has room under racks for boots and bits& pieces. It is very strong and has a cross bar as well.
 
My friend uses containers on her yard (as in the big steel sheds) and the lock on the front has a special square thing on the front to prevent you getting a crow bar up underneath it. Of course they are waterproof and rodent proof also. And we never get spiders in there. Brilliant idea - if only people would lock them up when they go home at night!!

Here is an image of a container, obviously the ones my friend has on her yard are a little smaller but can take about 30 saddles and bridles each and the saddle racks fit okay to the metal inside. http://storagecontainers.net/listman/listings/images/6_1.jpg
 
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your local police or horsewatch group may have stamps to mark your postcode into leather items. Synthetic is more difficult, etching on the stirrup bars or datachips are best. For everything else, indelible pen
 
I put a post up in New Lounge this weekend, over the security we now have in place after being broken into.

Just this week, the little darlings have been back, heard the dogs and climbed on top of the diesel tank that is thankfully empty) and looked through an old trap door near the roof of the barn, to make sure the dogs were loose.

Needless to say they left emptyhanded, and the only tell tale clue was they left the door slightly open and footprints on the tank.
 
A couple of guard dogs i find does the trick! at my freinds yard some people got into a caravan she had up there for when she was doing an early show or had babies due. The dog was in her kennel outside it let them in but she wouldn't let them out! brilliant guard dog and she was only an dalmatian! but she also has rotti's and alsatians as a detterent i find they are best not only do they make a racket if someone is there who shouldn't be they actively try and stop/catch them.
 
Rape alarms. I am pretty sure that it was Henryhorn who described how she used them. Rig them to your doors and gates.

Motion sensors, solar power ones work just fine.

I have dogs that bark when they feel like it, but to be quite honest, thieves in these parts come with firearms, faced with that, they can take what they jolly well like.
 
I'm afraid with Tack the only thing to do is take it home. Even those big metal containers with protection on the locks can and are broken into regularly.

As has been previously stated, make your stuff hard to sell. Spray your postcode on your wheel barrows. We have the postcode, yard name and a line saying 'stolen if not at this location, or stolen if offered for sale'

I also have this written on all my horse rugs that aren't navy blue. If they can't sell it they are less likely to steal it.
 
We have a boxer (useless as a guard dog) but has a loud bark, and the other is a Shai Pai x Lab and she will bite, she has always been very possessive. They were home dogs, but have taken to their new jobs in life, very well and are the fittest and healthest they have ever been.

We have a barn so the dogs are in there loose at nights and when we are not around. As our horses are at home, we are in a better position than a big livery yard, however any spare tack or stuff that is not used is hidden elsewhere.
 
We live about half a mile away from our field, we have a problem with security, we dont have any electric at the field we run a light from a car battery. I dare not put my horses in the stables at night incase anyone goes into them, someone shot my lights out with a pellet gun on the front of the stables. Some kids were throwing snowballs at my horses last winter!

Someone suggested that i have an alarm on the stable doors that run off a battery and it sends a text to your mobile, but cant find any info about them, has anyone else heard of them?
 
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