Meowy Catkin
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I'm sure that many of you read the very sad post last night about the horse who unfortunately caught his legs up in his X surcingles and had to be PTS as he broke two legs.
This evening I needed to change my grey's rug as she had been rolling in the muddiest patch that she could find and her rug was sodden with wet mud. So I got her spare (not been used before) out of the packet and put it on her. Yet again the X surcingles were far too long, even on the shortest setting. I had to quickly sew them shorter by a good 12 inches.
In fact all bar one of my horses (ex broodie and still has a broodie tummy) generally need the X surcingles shortening on their rugs. The makes include Horseware, Shires, Bucas, Masta and GFS.
The two chestnuts are good weights according to the condition scoring scale and the grey is slightly too fat on the scale (I'm being kind here - it's actually pretty hard to find her ribs).
Are these overly X surcingles a symptom of the tendency for horses to be fatter these days? It's a flipping dangerous though, whatever the reason.
This evening I needed to change my grey's rug as she had been rolling in the muddiest patch that she could find and her rug was sodden with wet mud. So I got her spare (not been used before) out of the packet and put it on her. Yet again the X surcingles were far too long, even on the shortest setting. I had to quickly sew them shorter by a good 12 inches.
In fact all bar one of my horses (ex broodie and still has a broodie tummy) generally need the X surcingles shortening on their rugs. The makes include Horseware, Shires, Bucas, Masta and GFS.
The two chestnuts are good weights according to the condition scoring scale and the grey is slightly too fat on the scale (I'm being kind here - it's actually pretty hard to find her ribs).
Are these overly X surcingles a symptom of the tendency for horses to be fatter these days? It's a flipping dangerous though, whatever the reason.