Which Grazing Muzzle?

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Thanks to all you replied to my summer grazing post. We have lots of grass in the summer field as a delay in moving to summer field as we needed the fencing repaired.

The horses are moving in tonight. They are all in resting today apart from Caymen (my friend could not catch him :redface) and 2 others. I will head up this afternoon to get him in for a few hours before moving.

So... we are unable to strip graze so muzzle it is! He will be coming in during the day for the next week or two but sometimes its hard for me to get up and if he is going to be a pest to catch I dont like asking others to do it. Muzzle seems like a good option.

So which are the best, I have been researching and was looking at Greenguard but heard that works best with the headcollar designed to go with it. Caymen is always up to no good so I need one that is quite secure but will break away if he gets it caught. I read some people pleat the forelock to hold it on? Is this a good idea?

Thanks in advance for reading all this blurp :help:
 
I use a Shires bucket type muzzle at the moment for Rio, with the hole enlarged which makes life a little more bearable but still fulfills the purpose. It has a velcro breakaway if they get into trouble. She's prone to rubs, but spraying the inside of the muzzle with mane and tail conditioner seems to have sorted that problem.

A good alternative is to buy one of the Aerbourn full nose nets for headshakers and cut a hole in it, works better if you reinforce it and will need replacing eventually as the hole gradually gets larger over time.
 
My mare has been muzzled every summer for the last 10 years due to being prone to lammy. She is brought in every night. I originally used the `Best Friend` muzzles, but then Shires brought out one which was practically the same and much cheaper so I have used theirs for about the last seven years. I tried the Greenguard but she found a way to eat out of the side of it. This year she perfected the art of getting it off by laying down and rubbing her head on the ground until it came off over her ears. I put a webbing headcollar over the top of it but she still managed to get it off. I then made two plaits in the top of her mane and plaited these together to form a loop. I slide the headpiece through the plaited loop and then fasten it. She hasn`t got it off since. They do fasten with velcro and so if she got caught up in anything I am assuming this would pull away. Hope all that helps.
 
Not tried a Greenguard, but I've had awful problems with the shires/ best friends ones rubbing, to the point that within 12 hours they have raw nostrils and can't be muzzled any more.

I've got one of mine in a Dinky Rugs muzzle now, with the others getting theirs this week (they will be so pleased). It's the only one I've found that doesn't rub and my only complaint is that the velcro break away bit isn't very substantial, so it does come off quite easily (though that could just be it comes off quite easily when you've got 2 ponies who will help to remove it - without that it hasn't actually come off).
 
Zingy said:
Not tried a Greenguard, but I've had awful problems with the shires/ best friends ones rubbing, to the point that within 12 hours they have raw nostrils and can't be muzzled any more.

I've got one of mine in a Dinky Rugs muzzle now, with the others getting theirs this week (they will be so pleased). It's the only one I've found that doesn't rub and my only complaint is that the velcro break away bit isn't very substantial, so it does come off quite easily (though that could just be it comes off quite easily when you've got 2 ponies who will help to remove it - without that it hasn't actually come off).
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This. Though our field safe Velcro bit has never been undone and rascal has only got his off once.
 
I have been very pleased with the Dinky Rugs muzzle. Both Irish Cob and Welsh Pony are staying nice and slim even though they are out in 3 acres of grass :happy:

They are muzzled 24/7 and get a fair bit through the muzzle so I don't take it off. Initially there was some rubbing around the muzzle so I put loads of vaseline on before putting muzzles on and it worked. Their muzzles will harden to it anyway. Better to have a little rubbing initially than to let them out in the grass and get colic or Lami.
 
One of ours has a grazing muzzle for the summer each year and I like the roma ones as they are soft but hard wearing. My tip for not getting rubs is to get one a size bigger and put it on loosely. Our mare is 14'2 and cob size for bridles and headcollars etc but I get a full size muzzle for her and this seems to reduce the rubbing. Also as someone else said a bit of vaseline on the chin seems to help with the rubs too.
 
laupip said:
One of ours has a grazing muzzle for the summer each year and I like the roma ones as they are soft but hard wearing. My tip for not getting rubs is to get one a size bigger and put it on loosely. Our mare is 14'2 and cob size for bridles and headcollars etc but I get a full size muzzle for her and this seems to reduce the rubbing. Also as someone else said a bit of vaseline on the chin seems to help with the rubs too.
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Totally agree. I loosened the muzzles as I think I did them up a tad too tight and now they are perfect. It takes a bit of trial and error.
 
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