Fly Rugs....how often do you wash yours?

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Out of interest, how often do you wash your fly rugs or if need be have them sent off to be cleaned?

Only reason I ask is Ro's owner came down to the yard last night and she was having a sort through her rugs, some which needed to go off for repairs and cleaning etc and she asked me to wash her fly rug...no probs, in the washing machine at 40 and jobs a gud un.
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But it wasn't really that dirty (it was still an off white and to be honest rather clean looking as she's not really much of a roller) and well it will just be the same again after a day or so, so wondered how often you all wash yours?

Anyway she told me to put her other new one on that she got last year which she passed to me while grooming her, I said I really don't think that is going to fit her (you know when you can tell just by looking at a rug that it aint going to fit).

She said ''no no it definitely fits her!, its a nice Rambo one that I got from Braham last year, stick her that one on'' and off she went home with a bundle of rugs under her arm.

Anyway after I came back of my ride (yes she is now hacking out on her own) I tried it on....just in case all the years I've been rugging horses had fooled me into believing that I did actually know how to fit a rug correctly lol.

So on it went.
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But we had a slight problem, it didn't even go over her fat backside and I only just managed to squeeze her chest into it lol
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god knows how she's of bent down to eat! the look on her face said it all bless her, so couldn't resist in getting my phone out to take a pic to send to her owner.

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Now pardon me if I'm wrong but I really don't think it fits!
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Ah well the horseware ones are known for shrinking. One of our old liveries got given one for her youngster that had shrunk from 6ft 6" to around 5ft 9"

I wash mine a few times in the season, but then they are Shires and not Horseware!!
 
I think that might be the case then
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, because her other one which does fit, which you can just bung in the washer is a cheaper one, obviously doesnt shrink in the wash (I did ask if it was ok to put in the washer) owner must of washed this one and just put it back in the bag last year not knowing it had shrunk....whooops!
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I have never washed a fly rug
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Neither have I but not because I'm a scruffy so and so, its just that Mackenzie has always grown out of them, so during summer he'll have new ones so gave my others to lady I know who has some TB's which they would fit.

My other horse just used to rip them so he had a new one practically every month!
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and never bothered using them the other in the past apart from one TB who used to get really bad fly bites.
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I have never washed a fly rug
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Me neither!
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Although this time I do have an excuse as ponio destroyed her rug completely with in 3 months of me buying it, she now has the cheapest of the cheap on which I expect will be in pieces when I go and see her later!

She usually gets a new fly rug every year so I don't think there is a need to wash hers. This year as she is in a destructive mood I think I may be buying her quite a few
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Thanks but no thanks, I like walking around covered in horse hair, specially in the office, I feel like I have a little bit of Mackenzie with me everywhere I go.
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Great idea, will be great for washing numnahs in!
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Doesn't that mean the hair is still on the thing you were washing?

I have to clean the filter every so often, but I like getting the hair off their horsey garments.
 
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Me neither!
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Although this time I do have an excuse as ponio destroyed her rug completely with in 3 months of me buying it, she now has the cheapest of the cheap on which I expect will be in pieces when I go and see her later!

She usually gets a new fly rug every year so I don't think there is a need to wash hers. This year as she is in a destructive mood I think I may be buying her quite a few
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I have no excuse - my horse's fly rug is in its 3rd year (he is such a good boy with his rugs
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) Mind you I've moved yards this year and flies are no where near as big a problem as they were at my old yard, so I don't think its going to get too much use.
 
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