hey everybody my name is Brandi hey guys its Dani the horse Girl and today we are gonna take
these freezing cold bits and put them in our mouth and see if it hurts
if you're new here this channel is all about my journey with horsemanship and
everyday life with horses in today's video I'm gonna do a little experiment
I've been wondering about this for many years and I'm just now I'm just gonna go
ahead and do it so something that a lot of people wonder about is if they need
to warm their bits before putting it in their horse's mouth so and I've always
kind of wondered the same thing sometimes I'll put my hand on it to kind
of warm it up that way I've seen people put it in their cars I've seen people
put it in their jackets and I've seen people buy little things that go over
the the bit to warm it before using it before putting it in their horse's mouth
so but honestly I've really never had an issue putting a cold bit in a horse's
mouth they typically take it just fine so but for lessons a lot of times in the
winter I like to use a type of a side pull it all it is is a halter with rings
on the sides and this works out really great for my students and we're not
doing anything real technical when I'm using these so they work out really good
for beginners and those who are just working on the basic stuff so and then
with my own horse a lot of times I ride just in a halter and I use the lead rope
and I flip it back and forth over her head but it really depends on for me its
temperature if it's really cold I typically don't use a bit in my horse's
mouth I typically go with my halter side pull and to me really cold is like under
well if it's under 10 degrees we typically don't ride but if it's under
about 15 or so that's usually when I just kind of skip a bit and if I don't
want to have my gloves off that's typically when I determine if it's too
cold or not so so I have my friend Dani here this is Anabelle and Dani and I are
gonna go and ahead and do this little experiment she's willing to do this with
me so we're gonna take these cold bits it's about oh I don't know 12 degrees
are you cold we just say it's cold it's cold I don't
want to have my gloves off right now but so it's about 12 degrees and we're gonna
see if this is uncomfortable or not I'm gonna wait the dirt off my in real quick
cuz that's gross this is a new bit it's not been in a horse's mouth but not
gonna lie it's just been kind of tossed into my tack room so it's not like I
clean these okay are you ready the count of three one two three it's duck huh
yeah it loosened up but it was stuck in my mouth you lose yours got stuck too
did you freak out and pull it yeah yeah I'll show you here violet it's duck hi
there okay so that really changes a lot of things for me I've literally never
done this before have you ever done that before no did you kind of panic a little
bit panicked a little bit so basically if I'm not willing to try something
myself I am sure as heck not going to have my horse do it so that really um
you know I'm gonna be a little bit more thoughtful now with when I put bits in
my horse's mouth and how I go about it cuz that I can see how that could be
really scary to a horse so what do you think you think I'd be kind of scary
yeah all right yeah there's that there's that debunked like we're barn
busters Danny and Brady are investors all right guys I hope you enjoyed this
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and comment below let me know if you've ever done anything like that before or
if you ride with bits in the winter or not thanks for watching