Another question! Turnout headcollars

[RachelB]

Sorry I'm full of questions at the mo!!!
My usually very quiet mare has decided to be a piggy in the field and won't be caught. I really don't want to leave a nylon headcollar on her in case it gets caught and won't break. I've tried getting her a Cottage Craft headcollar with the velcro in but it doesn't fit.
Someone once told me that leather headcollars would break more easily than a nylon one? Is this generally true? Would it be more suitable for use as a turnout headcollar than a nylon one?
Cheers m'dears!

 

[ThomasTank]

Apparently. Thats what I was told.

 

[nicnag]

I've got one of the aerborn ones with the rubber rings that snap as my mare can be a real cow to catch in summer. I tried a leather headcollar but found it rubbed as however soft I tried to keep it the weather got to it, she has got very soft skin though!

 

[amandaco2]

leather ones or get a fly free link to put on a nylon one.

 

[TiaPony]

pony club says that a leather headcollar will break easier then a nylon one if horse gets caught.
mind yoo, i listen to bugger all wot pony club say but i think that one is true!
x

 

[glenruby]

I only turnout in a leather headcoller - mind you i prefer to take off the headcollar in the field. In pony days i couldnt afford a leather headcollar so got an old plough pony one (circa 1940s!)off the neighbours for a pound. Shabby - yes certainly, bt effective nonetheless.

 

[RachelB]

Just what I wanted to hear, thanks!
Only thing is... I feel more tack cleaning coming on... *groan*!
Cheers!

 

[glenruby]

That is the downside! lol

 

[CrazyMare]

Only thing with the field safe headcollars is if the horse tries to pull away as you catch it, they snap.

My mare is a bugger to catch and often has to be penned in, she learnt to break the field safe ones, take off leather ones, so has to go out in a tightly fitten nylon one, we have triple and quadruple checked the field so it cant get caught

 

[RachelB]

That would be the point though! Mine isn't intelligent enough to get her headcollar off, or to break a turnout headcollar, or rather she can't be bothered. That would be wasting valuable eating time! And that was why I didn't want a really easily breakable one, like the Aerborn one with the rubber rings, as she would pull back and break it when being caught. I just want one that is 'safer' than a nylon one, but easier to break than one!
They can be buggers, can't they?!!

 

[Theresa_F]

I use the really cheap leather headcollars off e-bay - that way I don't have to worry about Chancer doing something daft to himself or hanging off Cairo's headcollar by his teeth.

Never clean them - they wear them during the day in winter only and when they get too stiff, chewed or crack up - for £12 I will get another.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-Black-Leather-...1QQcmdZViewItem

Gives you safety and they don't come undone if you have to grab them.

 

[Murphs_Mum]

Murph can be a sod to catch (though funnily enough not a bed time or feed time!) he is turned out in a leather headcollar and has actually broke one on the fence, so yes they do break! I bought him an Aerborn Velcro one but it rubbed after one day. He seems to remove the ones with the rubber rings quite easily and as someone else said if they pull back before you get the real headcollar on they snap.

 

[Sooty]

Fieldsafe headcollars are a waste of time, they break like cotton if you try and catch a horse with one! If we need to leave one on we use a foreign leather one - the ones that cost about a fiver.

 

[RachelB]

That's just what I was thinking, thanks guys!
I had a 'fieldsafe' one on my last pony, after she scared herself when being caught one day and then refused to be caught. Once you had hold of her, she wouldn't move so it was fine... until I lost the spare rings and one broke!
Maiden is a heavy sort, and just the type of madam to yank back before you get a decent headcollar on! Plus having a leather one you can lead in is eaiser for my friend who brings her in for me.
Theresa_F thanks for the link, I completely forgot about eBay! Will have a nosey later, cheers!