lucymay9701
Well-Known Member
Please could anyone let me know if you have any recommendations for a fly mask for a nervous girl? She has been having problems with headshaking this summer along with swollen runny eyes and rubbing her nose (rubbed the fur away in lots of places - I read this was probably due to pain in the nerve going down the nose from UV getting into the eye). My vet recommended a good UV mask and I got a guardian mask. It has worked really well for her symptoms - headshaking not fully gone but her eyes are so much better and all the fur has grown back on her nose so she has stopped rubbing. We're not using a nose net on the guardian mask so the theory about the UV light getting into the eyes seems to be right for her. Anyway the problem is that she isn't happy in the guardian mask. We have given it a fair trial thinking she would get used to it but it is making her really jumpy, she's hardly been caught since she's had it on and has to make her own way into the stable then when she gets there she rushes in and out of the door and trips over the wood in the entrance. She doesn't seem to be able to judge things properly so I don't think its fair to keep it on her. Its such a shame as it helped her symptoms but anyway I am now looking for something which might be a good compromise. The guardian mask has 95% UV protection so I will probably need to move down from this to get better vision and hope this still does the trick so I just wondered if anyone had any recommendations please? You can replace the 95% shades in the guardian mask for 80% ones but I wonder if its the rim on them that is affecting her vision aswell and the 80% ones do have the rim so I don't think that's the best option. I was thinking perhaps of the equilibrium but not sure what people think of the vision through these for a nervous horses? Any other recommendations would be great aswell. Thank you x