Grazing muzzle for Shetland pony?

[SpruceRI]

Can anyone tell me what the website address is that makes shetland Pony sized stuff: One was called something like 'Small Packages' but I can't find them on the web

Also, does anyone use a grzing muzzle for their Shettie and does the Shettie get them off easily?

Thanks

 

[Helen010382]

try dinky rugs
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/DinkyRugs

the muzzles are in the headcollar section

 

[catembi]

How cute is that site?? It's like looking at baby clothes...makes you go awwwww.

 

[luckilotti]

my shetland (standard sheti) wont keep them on - well - should i say - he gets that upset and wound up - they are impossible to keep on him - if you do just walk away and leave him - he will somehow get around it! and he is one of the best behaved shetlands known to man! always has been so well behaved and not cheeky etc!!

I have personally found it easier to restrict his grazing - having said that - hes turned out PART of the time on 30 acres! (when the ground is very dry - grass not growing, has been eaten down etc)

good luck

ps - i remember a post similar a while ago re muzzles and it seemed the nylon ones are good - the old fashioned type and greenguard ones didnt work for us.

 

[Christmas_Kate]

Small packages have changed ownership, the lady emailed me another phone number but TBH I couldnt be doing with it all as from the website it seems they just do standard stuff you could buy from anywhere else. It's all weatherbeeta etc. The only difference being that Small packages only stock the smaller sizes.

IME the grazing muzzles made for shetties are too small for your average standard shettie. Ours takes a small pony size bridle, and a normal pony size muzzle.
He hated wearing it at first, so much so that he threw himself on the floor in a temper

. But I persevered and now he's okay. Just be prepared for lots of screaming and galloping about. His first muzzle, which had a velcro fastening.... he got that off with ease, so I replaced the velcro with a buckle from an old headcollar and made the hole in the bottom of the muzzle a little bigger. He rubs it on fences, but can't get it off. BUT it has rubbed the hair off his face

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I have just ordered a Green guard muzzle in small pony size. So hopefully that will be better for him, especially in the hot summer.
If I had the chance I would just strip graze, but i cannot do that so I have no choice but to use a muzzle.

 

[SpruceRI]

Thanks everyone - esp the shettie owners.

My shettie has always gone out in his own Summer paddocks and in the early years was quite upset at being on his own as my mare needs more food than he.

For the last 3yrs I've had a couple of New Forest ponies who've also needed less grass so he's had company. Now they've gone, it's back to the 'fattie' and the 'thinny' scenario.

Was thinking of getting him a muzzle so he could stay out in the big fields with 'thinny', but having read your posts I don't think they'd work. He rubs his headcollar off in the field when tied up sometime, or in the trailer, and has even got his bridle off by using his hind feed to oik it over his ears, so really and truly, it's not going to work is it? Every day I put a fly net on, and every day it's lying somewhere in the field.

He'll have to go back to his summer paddock I think, and Rosie can join him at night.