What's in your grooming kit and

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How do you store it?

My little tub trug is splitting so actually thinking of just going back to a simple drawstring bag that can be thrown in the wash as and when.

That got me thinking of what I have and then onto what do you guys have?

So from memory which should mean everything we need and use regular enough to remember it.

Shedding blade (cheaper version furminator)
Dandy brush
Body brush
Mane and tail brush
Mane comb
Mane spray
Cat flea comb
Scissors
E45 cream
Hoof print with brush
Weigh tape
Sheep shears
Gloves

If anything needs an explanation I can do that. 😂
 
Sheep shears????

I have a kitchen veg trolley for my day to day stuff, so I can throw it in and all the dirt falls through it, I bring the horses to the shed!
Flicker brush
Dandy brush
Body brush
Plastic curry
Rubber curry
3-round shedding blade
Paddle brush
Grooming gloves (those spikey ones)
E45
Sudocrem
Artimud
Hoof clay
Bug cream
Bug spray
Mane and tail spray
Hoof cleanser spray
My hoof pick lives outside the shed on a hook. I don’t use all of it every day of course, but it’s all the stuff I regularly want to hand. I have other less used bits on the lower shelves.

I have a few bits up at the shelter wedged in the rafters for when I just want to groom while they’re in there snoozing.
Dandy brush
3-round shedding blade
Hoof pick

And the same again next door in the feed room in the little boys paddock. I’m not a fan of walking back and forth to get things, it’s 1/4 mile round trip from the little boys paddock to the shed!

I have an oster kit I take when we travel with;
Dandy brush
Body brush
Rubber Curry
Comb
Face brush
Mane and tail brush
Hoof pick
Polishing rag
All in a little zip up bag
 
I have sheep shears for one of the dogs, not in my grooming kit.

I have one of those sturdy plastic boxes with an upper tray to make it two tier. Doubles up as a small step. There's a lot of rubbish in there, and mostly a lot of hair, but all I really use is

an ergonomic shedding tool thingy, like an oval plastic/rubbery thing with big prongy teeth, no idea what they're called,

a cheap plastic curry comb, the kind that you slide over your hand, which at the moment is my most used implement

a magic brush (AJ doesn't like but Raf does)

a body brush, rarely used at present due to the hair situation,

a brush and mane & tail spray

a hoof pick

a comb for cleaning the brushes.

Probably a few plaiting bands kicking about from when I used to do a running plait in Raf's mane.

I really need to clean it out.

Washing stuff is in a bucket and special show stuff is in a basket, not that I ever use it. Lotions and potions are in drawers in the tack room.
 
I've got one of those plastic carry trays thats got two sides and a handle in the middle. Fits nicely in the front of the filing cabinet draw. That has the everyday brushs which is about 3 different ones i used regularly, shedding blade, pick etc in. Most of the time i just grabbed out the brush i wanted. Other times id take the tray out the filing cabinet. Depended on how intense the grooming session was.

They I have a horslyx tub at the back of the filing cabinet draw that has the less used brushes, knive, old shedding blade, sponge, scissors etc.
My lotions and potions sit on a cupboard in another hoslyx container on the other side of the tack room. So if they leak or dribble down the side its only into the container and I can wash it out.
 
I have a large plastic grooming box which is strong enough to stand on. When I began to ride, I phoned the mail order store Rideaway and asked the assistant to sell me the grooming box she used for her own horse. I added a brush or two and hoof picks. Later because I rode Western in US, I upgraded to Ossler brushes and rubber curry which are easier to grip and washable.
Later I added two expensive German Haas brushes to groom the finer coated Spanish mare I was hacking and riding dressage on at that time.
I have never thown away any brush.
 
Thanks for your replies.
When I got to check what I actually have. I had forgotten the knife which must be there for some reason. Probably chopping fruit for the birds initially.
Also a blue sticky tape that I just used to stop the lounge whip from fraying.

I can actually recall buying a lunge whip that was in two halves. If you flicked a little over zealous it would come apart and you could send one end into orbit. I didn't keep that for long.

I have dug out the old plastic storage box that used to have a tray on the top. That must be nearly thirty years old!
I won a grooming kit in a raffle once and the body brush is the only surviving brush of that.
 
The sheep shears I mentioned are for removing the ergots on the hindlegs. They are the only things that have been sharp enough to deal with them safely.
The farrier won't touch them.
 
I actually only groom if essential really. She lives out so over winter she barely gets touched.
What I find interesting about her is she hates her front legs being brushed until around now anyway, she tends to stamp or fidget. But she loves a good scratch everywhere so I spend time just doing nothing but something for her.
She loves her hindlegs being brushed or itchy and I debated on getting one of those gloves others have mentioned.

Just realised I forgot I have a metal curry, but since I use the trees to clean the brushes off I don't touch it.
 
Skib said:
I feekl fr you. The RS keep Shetlands for small kids to ride and I was asked to groom a Shetland one day. I found him very hard to control and the grooming bent over him was back breaking.
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Mine are easy to groom, very helpful. No headcollars mostly required. Just stand there.

Fivla even tried to lift a back second hoof for my daughter to pick out, while I was already doing a front
 
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