Following on from bargy horse post - stall chain or webbed guard...

Ive got one like that, thin I got it from Robinsons. I personally prefer the guards to the chains, think they can easily get out under the chains (depending on how big they are!) but I was also mindful to get a guard that didnt have the square holes in it as i was worried about them getting a leg through it. My boy loves his guard and his door open.
 
definately the web guard if your horse is a limbo dancer- they can get under the chain too easily!
 
I have used both - I like the web one but the ones I recently bought have not been as strong - far weaker metal and if Cairo lent out, the clips snapped. That said, I would use this type with Chancer as he would wriggle under a single chain - and has.

Cairo now has a chain type, but only problem is that sometimes he has been known to sit on it followed by a loud snap and a very bewildered Clydesdale sitting on his bum in the yard
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If it's a bargy horse, I would go for a solid slip rail as the chains and guards will break if the horse decides to try and walk through them.
 
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If it's a bargy horse, I would go for a solid slip rail as the chains and guards will break if the horse decides to try and walk through them.

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Agreed (speaking from experience
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Agree
My cob just walked casually through a stall guard and the metal cips broke on thier corners.

Solid slip rail.
 
That made me chuckle, I can just imagine him looking round & mumbling 'don't make them like they used to'...!
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QR - oh dear, I've ordered one of the webbing ones! Oh well, if he snaps it I'll have to try a chain...!
 
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Not if you use a scaffold pole!!!
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Another vote for a scaffold pole - used to have one on Fleur's stable - just had a mate make me up two brackets and then got me a pole off a building site he was working at.

It was great - silly mare tried to get under it once, lifted it up and dropped it on her head - and never went under again.

Only problem is if you have a daft Suffolk like Theresa_W who ended up straddled on it and had to be cut out by the fire brigade.
 
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