Do grazing muzzles work????

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My mare is in foal but not due until next april but since about 8 weeks ago she has just gotten absolutely huge you would think she is due any day now even her udders have gotten really big!! I don't want her to have to live in as I think its best for her to live out with her friends so I'm considering a grazing muzzle, has anyone used one and did it work? Thanks!!
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I worked really well with my mare but she will find food anywhere, my friend’s horse just refused to try and eat and stood at the gate.

I think it is worth a try but it depends on your horse.
 
I swear by them, I have the greenguard one for my sensitive little Welsh B and the shires one for my vandalistic thug of a C! They wear them on the good grass all day and then go into a more bare paddock and have thme off overnight.
My vet was horrified at how fat my in foal mare got (shes a horse) and I bought her back into work.
 
I also swear by the greenguard one my big irish horse has, he can still eat grass, hay from a haynet and drink and this is the only way I can keep the excess weight off enough to compete him.
 
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My vet was horrified at how fat my in foal mare got (shes a horse) and I bought her back into work.

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I know I cant believe how much weight she put on and so quickly, I ordered a shires one off the Robinsons catalogue so I hope it works, did you notice the weight coming off quickly?
 
I must admit I didn't put her in a muzzle, I just started getting her in for the mornings and riding every day. When she came home from stud she looked like she was about to drop, and was only 45 days or something! She has great lumps of fat in fornt of her udder and everything. Shes nicely round now, and much nicer to ride.
 
I have a shires one for my table-top gelding - but getting it on him is a different matter!!! I'll be putting it back on tonight though! He is head down all the time he is out, I tend to leave it on 12hrs, off 12hrs, but he does try and look sorrowfully at me... until I try and put it on again then I need to be 8ft tall to try!!! Do notice a difference in his size though
 
Got a Shires one for Henry. Tried it again last night when his slut of a girlfriend let him out of his pen again. He's one of those that stands by the gate, practically in tears. I did persevere for a few hours (I left him with it on from 5:30pm), but at 9pm, when I returned, he was still stood with his head hung low, so I took it off overnight. Not a good idea to starve a laminitic, so now I'm playing the waiting game to see if he's ok today without (it's a bare field). He was ok this morning...will try again tonight...

Some get it straight away, others (like Henry) think you're trying to kill them by starvation and follow you around with a tearful expression and big brown puppydog eyes!
 
They are good if you can keep them on!

Mine did the crying pathetic thing at the gate when I first used it, but once he realised that that wouldn't wash he perfected removal and gleefully stamping on it.

Took him a couple of days the first time, but he can now do it in 10mins.

Short of gaffer taping it to his head I can't keep it on him, so he is back to the starvation paddock by day, and out in the big field by night. (And I know thats the wrong way around, but I don't have time to spend an hour trying to catch him for removal off the grass before work!).
 
Grazing muzzles do work & work well. Mine wears a Greenguard & has no problems at all. The biggest problem with any horse wearing a muzzle is the owner. They expect the horse to take to it immediately & stand watching for a while then think that the horse will starve so they take it off
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. A horse will not starve itself. Put the thing on & leave the horse with it. It will eventually carry on as normal. Your horse can stay out virtually as normal in a mask or has to be brought in after an hour or so if not wearing one..... which way is the best?
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At our new yard 3 horses are now sucessfully wearing greenguard muzzles following seeing how mine was in one. These horses are all potential laminitics & can now stay out so much longer & are perfectly happy.
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total agree with Toby_Zaphod and couldn't have put it any better myself. one of my most valuable peices of equiptment i have happy laminitic ponies out 24/7 instead of out for i hout daily.
 
I think they are great. We have a very overweight cobby type at work, and she was just huge!!
we got her a muzzle, i went on holiday for 2 weeks and when i came back the difference was amazing! she now goes out in it every other night and is maintaining a good weight quite happily.
As the others have said, they can sometimes take a little while to get used to, but they do carry on as normal quickly enough.
 
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