Grazing muzzles... recommendations/ones to avoid!

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Recommend me a grazing muzzle please!

I'm rusty to all of this, having not had laminitis prone ponies for years, but Boo is in need of one
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I don't know much about the various types/styles, but she is a 15.1 chunky TB (middle one in my sig), if that helps any of you recommend one
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Greenguard is pretty good
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(it's the only one I've used mind!). Apparently it cuts down quite a large percentage of their grazing, whilst still allowing them to graze pretty much as normal
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My pony got out of a greenguard in seconds, and when she got out of it it then got stuck in her lip and really dug in
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I used one of the bucket type ones but she got rubs from that too.

i ended up just limiting her grazing, which was much kinder for her.
 
i use the shires nylon ones realy good imo they dont rub my escape artist still hasn't got it off yet and they have a break away strap in case of accidents and there a quarter of the price of greenguards!hope2help
 
I used a Shires one successfully last year on a fat cob. I found it better to get a size bigger as this will prevent rubbing. I originally got a cob size for my 14hh cob and this rubbed but the full size was fine. She still managed to eat quite a lot through the hole. When I crept up to her from behind you could hear her constantly munching! She was much happier having a muzzle on and being in the herd than in a starvation paddock with just company over the fence.
 
Thanks all so much
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I have a load of the fake sheepskin stuff which I can sew onto the nylon one to help stop it rubbing - I know that whatever I use it will rub as she is just that type of horse!
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Hopefully the muzzle will just be a short term thing - they have just moved fields and are currently fenced off in a small portion of the field, and then I will strip graze... it just getting them to eat down the stuff in the bit they are in now that is causing the problem.
I was threatening to fence her off her own little bit, but she will fret at being away from the others as she is very social.

Gah! TB's aren't meant to cause this sort of hassle!
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Daisy had a shires one and could get it off in about 30secs, when I modified it so she couldn't get it off she got rubbed really badly and ended up with a £90 vets bill because it trigged eczema in her face and even once I took the muzzle off she carried on itching until her face was raw. She now has a best friend and its much deeper so it doesn't rub
 
Greenguard! Buy the greenguard headcollar to go with it too. It has a throat lash which helps prevent it being pulled off which, if not fitted correctly they can do. You can adjust the shape by putting it in boiling water. My horse had stress laminitis for the first time ever last year and was confined to a straw filled enclosure in her field and had to wear a grazing muzzle too as all she was allowed was a bran mash and 2 buckets of hay a day plus bute and acp. It was hard but I would have no hesitation recommending all the treatment I had for her. It compounded her hind quater lameness and a mysterious virus, however with mine my husband and my friends good nursing, the vet, farrier, heart bars, plastic pads, back specialist, equine dentist and TOTAL FAITH she pulled through. Nearly a year later her hoof is growing really well, and she is rideable
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. Greenguard may be expensive but she could breathe and it doesn't look as bad as the bucket ones with holes though we did call it her Hannibal mask LOL! Good luck and take care.
 
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