Adding leg straps to Horseware rugs.

[Meowy Catkin]

Has anyone done this?

I love these rugs as they fit my horses really well. The only downside is that in high winds they will blow off the horses. So I wondered if anyone has added extra rings so that you can use leg straps with them when it's really windy?

 

[ebonyallen]

No help here love the rugs never tried putting on leg straps, if I get a rug with them on I always take them off and make a fillet string at the back with one of them. We are down on the south coast by he sea and the winds can be gale force down here, never had a problem with these rugs blowing up, if that any help.

 

[Meowy Catkin]

I never had this problem when I lived in Herts - but here, the flipping neddies love being at the top of the hill so much that they don't shelter from the wind like they used to. I would never have believed that it was the wind until I saw it happen with my own eyes. The first time I found the rug on the floor with all the straps done up, I thought that the naughty mare had wriggled out of it.

 

[thatsmygirl]

Iv never heard of the Wong blowing them up either.

 

[Meowy Catkin]

Wong?

LOL. Autocorrect gets it wrong again.

ETA. If a gust lifts the back of the rug up, the fillet string can lift over the horse's rump. The next gust then takes the whole thing off over the horse's head. All the straps are still done up.

 

[thatsmygirl]

I give up with this phone " wind"

 

[thatsmygirl]

Faraway it drives me mad, and some of the words it changes is just mental.

 

[Meowy Catkin]

Yep - I can see how it drives people potty.

 

[Flicker51]

yes i've done this - mine live out for a lot of the year in big fields which are quite exposed in parts and find at least 1 strap essential. One of my friends geldings was found with the rug up over his head - if he'd panicked and run he could have killed himself.
Some of the rambo's have a tail keeper which helps but I still wouldn't risk it !

 

[Meowy Catkin]

I was thinking about sewing these on (I could measure where they need to be placed on a rug with leg straps of the same size). Much cheaper than buying the ever growing gelding yet more rugs as I already have a HW that will fit him.

 

[Flicker51]

My rug cleaner /mender supplied mine and the straps and used machine to put them on. Charged £4 a rug !

 

[Meowy Catkin]

Bargain.