With or without Halter

Whenever I had opportunity to travel through many stables, I have seen so many different ways of "halter practices" - from exposing beautiful fluffy furs in boxes to suffering horses from diaper rush in the fields. Unfortunately stable's owners experience had nothing to do with it.

Before we decide whether we would like our horse has become top stable's model of halter from highest level, proudly presenting logotype of the brand, firstly we should imagine situation, in which our horse, in these beautiful halter could hang itself by hooking its buckles on the stall bars.

With help from our advanced innovative companies we can get various solutions from stretching and tightening halters to halters equipped with solutions comparable with the most advanced airbags fighting with nanoseconds. Unfortunately the final is almost always the same - in the best case the buckles will of course break under the weight, but as consequence of such a maneuver, we may have to deal with strained occiput muscles, which may ultimately even lead to the exclusion of such a horse from sport. The worst cases, straight from bloodiest horrors, I will let for your consideration of your imagination only.

In the case of boxing the matter is clear - I strongly advise against participating in stable beauty contest.

Leaving your horse in field or paddock should be the same as above, as long as we have a little bit of imagination.

However, as we know, from every rule there is an exception, so it is worth remembering that while your horse is adapting to the new place or is included in the herd, halter will be our must have option in these times, of course I mean field or paddock.

To sum up the rule is simple - if we leaving our horse without care, let's do this without halter, putting safety and our healthy nerves at first place. However, if our only excuse of leaving horse in halter is problem caused by putting it on and taking it off, please practice this rituals in stable, or ask for help from awesome natural horsemanship team, so everyone could sleep peacefully.