*beware* most numpty post of the day - rug related

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how do you tell the difference between stable and turnout rugs?

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told you it was a numpty question.

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I would agree with you there. Also stable rugs (sometimes) look more quilted than turnouts, although this isnt't a hard and fast rule.
 
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Turnouts generally, are waterproof.

I'm prepared to be proven wrong though
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but, short of pouring water onto it... how do you know that?

i usually presume the scratchy ones that feel waterproof are t/o... but today a new rug arrived... allegedly combo quilt... and it feels like a t/o... so now i'm confuzzled...

is there a way to tell?
 
My guess is that the outside denier would be thicker for the turnout rug because it sees more wear and tear.

Denier same as our tights, we have 60 denier tights for thick ones and they have rugs with different deniers for different tightness/toughness.
(most of the time it gives you a gram and denier number on the rugs label)
Also and there waterproof
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I always look for a seam along the back, that then indicates to me that its a stable rug.

Always been led to believe that if an outdoor rug had a seam they would leak.

Thats how i tell my rugs apart, but could be wrong.
 
It can be really deceiving!
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I turned up at the yard one day to see daughter's pony turned out with his new stable rug on. My Yo at the time thought it was a turnout, she has 40 odd years of experience with horses. I had to laugh and couldn't blame her because it did look and feel similiar although the little beggar had decided to roll and new rug was covered in mud
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By looking at it?

Sorry not very helpfull but generally they do look different. What make/model is it?

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it's just a cheapy one from the robinson's sale (to use until i get my lazy butt to the launderettes to wash his nice stable rugs)

i think it really is a stable rug, it's just it feels like a turnout... which is now making me wonder if my method of telling them apart is flawed...
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Don't worry, you're not the only one! In my Stage One care exam I was shown a rug and asked whether it was a stable rug or TO. Now all my rugs would be easy to tell, they look really different but with this rug you really couldn't tell. I took a guess on stable rug but apparently it was a TO. She didn't mark me down though because I argued that if in doubt I'd rather leave a horse in the stable in a TO rug than turn it out in a stable rug. Personally I think the miserable old witch just picked a really odd looking rug to trick people up.
 
Here's what I do hun: when you buy the rug and first get it out of the bag it arrives in, grasp your black permanent marker firmly in one hand, find the tail flap (or any suitable part if no tail flap) and write across it in huge letters: XXX'S (= NED) MED WEIGHT T/O RUG, or STABLE RUG, or HEAVYWEIGHT COMBI T/O etc etc etc. Numpty proof plus gives everyone at the yard a laugh as I also add a little heart with an arrow through. Yeah, I know, mad as a box of frogs he he he x
 
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ah if it has leg straps then it must be a turnout rug xx

[/ QUOTE ] . . . .except that the cheapy pink stable rug I bought from Robinsons for Flynn (who's chestnut) has leg straps.

Yes he does look like a big girl's blouse in it - but the alternative for him and the big mare is matching leopard print stable rugs - WAY too Bet Lynch!
 
Google the name of the rug / or go back onto the Robinsons site and hopefully it will be under the appropriate category.

Failing that, if you only want to use it in the stable, it does not matter either way
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