combo or detachable neck?

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Im looking at getting either amigo 200g t/o or weatherbeeta original 220g t/o but dont know which version to get. Ive always gone for combos but what do you think of detachable necks? Are they worth the extra money? My horse is a roller so not sure. Also what do people think of ruggles rugs? Its to fit a fine built tb who feels the cold. Thanks
 
I prefer detachable and I'm convinced that mane loss is partly due to horses getting too hot. With a detachable neck I can buy lighter weight neck and my girl keeps her mane. :D
 
Detachable necks every time.

Better fit, less rubbing, more options.

They're a bit pricey but very well designed, I really rate the weatherbeeta freestyle detach a neck rugs.
 
if buying a combo you can still turn the neck under the rug and use it as a standard neck so it doesnt really limit your options
 
I was thinking of detachable as it gives two options. This may seem a dumb question but does the rain get in the neck join? Freestyle r nice but abit above my budget!
 
Tim's Girl said:
I was thinking of detachable as it gives two options. This may seem a dumb question but does the rain get in the neck join? Freestyle r nice but abit above my budget!
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I have seen (searched for HW turnout on ebay) a lesser well known brand on ebay doing a much cheaper version of the WB freestyle but in a very similar style - they looked really nice and think they were about £60 excl p&p? I'll try and find them for you!

ETA no I don't find the rain comes in through the join on the WB freestyle, can't vouch for other style as not used any other brands! Fig did have the LW mark todd with neck cover and that used to blow around a lot, but it was a very different design and didn't fit him well in the first place, so not really a brilliant example to use.
 
I have a ruggles heavyweight indoor combo and love it :-) I have a wimpy pony and keeps him toasty :-) discount horse rugs 4 you also do a lovely heavyweight to combo. Student at the time and just kept both as they lasted :-) my combos rub his mane but with lots of mane and tail conditioner it's not too bad. My detachable neck doesn't really rub his mane though. That's a requisite with a funnel range neck. Same attachments if you want something cheaper :-)
 
Prefer combos for MW/HW turnouts only, but horses tend to have sparse mane naturally anyway, so never had a issue with rubbing. Detachable necks for stable rugs and LW stable rugs.
 
I always had a detachable neck cover for my mare, mainly because I've owned her for so long that combo rugs weren't that common when we bought her, so I started with a normal medium weight rug then bought the neck cover second hand to go with it. I think I still have the neck cover somewhere, though the rug finally gave up on life a few years ago, but tbh I never used it that often as unless a horse is clipped or the weather especially horrendous, I don't think neck covers are that much use (mine's an Arab with such a fine winter coat that even in heavy work she never needed clipping). Anyway, my mum bought her a medium weight combo a few years ago, which I hardly ever used until last winter when it proved worth it's weight in gold! We moved yards last November and our new place is very high up and gets seriously wild and windy at times, but the horses can live out all year round. So I suddenly found I was using that combo rug a lot! I think for where I am, it can get so windy that you're better with a combo as there's no gap for the wind to get in! And as I already had a nice medium weight without a neck cover when my mum bought the combo, I can just rotate between the two. If you have an option of one or the other, I'd go for the detachable neck as then you have the best of both worlds. But if you already have a T/O without the neck cover, like I did, go for the combo.
ETA I've never had any trouble with the combo rubbing, and my mare was wearing it a lot last year, and 24 hours a day more or less because she was living out. But she does have a slim neck, which probably helps. Although that said, my sister's Welsh D has exactly the same rug and he didn't have any trouble either.
 
Rain doesn't get under a detachable at the neck-rug joint. Quite the opposite. It overlaps (or should), considerably so you have the equivalent of an overhang on a roof.

I only ever use Mark Todds now. They do beautiful comfortable t/o rugs with detachable neck covers, that last for ever. They never seem to slip, whatever the shape of the horse, and have generous movement in the shoulders too.
 
I totally hate detachable necks, the number of them that flap up as they only hook on in 3 places! if you could get one that zipped on it would be great but the ones that have clips are rubbish!!
 
I usually use standard necks - only my 400gm hw has a detachable neck, and that way I can add that if it is very cold and he is clipped. I have one mw combo that I regret buying even though is was so cheap - I just find he gets too warm being used to not having a neck at all. I save it for wet windy weather than isn't cold enough for a HW, but it was already just an alternate mw and have just bought a 200gm rug that takes liners so will use that instead now as a mw when an alternate is required... the combo can sit in the garage until I'm desperate!
 
Agree with Kerrieberrie - some are awful. My horse is out in his cheap detachable neck today and as its windy, he has this big gap as its only attached by 3 clips (how the makers ever thought this design was a good idea, I'll never understand). If I know it's going to rain, I put him in one of his combos as I know he'll be warm and dry (and they are dirt cheap ones from Derby House).
 
I have been looking at the rugs with liners but so confused now lol. So many choices. He has a 200g standard but on wet warmish days like today thought combo might be good. I have a derby house and axiom 300g combo so might just stick to them unless a cheap one comes up.
 
I can't do rugs at all. Thank goodness, Our own pony has no rugs, except for the light one to keep her clean. Last winter I did use it on her when it was raining a lot. In general, I felt if it was not pouring horribly she could cope fine with her own furry coat. On snow, she loved going out naked :)

Now, I am thinking of investing in a neck to add to her only turnout rug, a pony Amigo (good fit). And might get her a medium one in case she needs it, the YO will have something available.

Valid points raised in this thread. I might go with detachable necks, to have more flexibility. Where she came from, she had a New Zealand rug that rubbed her mane and neck.
 
My choice Combo or no neck. Contrary to some others, I find detachable necks more likely to rub my boys' manes.

I also had an expensive Weatherbeeta heavyweight with a zip attachment on the neck which was terrible - the zip broke several times. I just ditched the neck in the end.
 
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