How many of you turn out in a headcollar?

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As title really. Just curious. I dont but the YO will leave it on if he turns her out, just to make her easier to catch really. After Gins accident he always takes the headcollars off.
If you do why? and what type of headcollar?
 
Taz was turned out in a nylon headcollar for a while...but still couldnt catch the bugger... so gave up on that

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Our headcollars are ancient things held together with baler twine...and on one occasion I snapped one pulling it off the hook
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I never have but worked for 6 years at a RS that turned out all their horses in a headcollar. in the time I was there none of them had an accident because of it but I wouldn't personally take the risk
 
Never Ever, not worth it. We did have a mare that was hard to catch, she had a nylon one with elasitic so it was very easy to break if she had got stuck. Didn't help catching so gave up on that.
 
I do sometimes with Star, out of necessity. Usually when she's gone on a new bit of grass (like this week
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) and I know I'm going to *need* to catch her (i.e. farrier coming) or while she's going through a difficult (read hormonal) phase
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It's not that frequent though, and I don't really like to.
 
I sometimes turn out in a headcollar but it in a field safe one so will break if they get stuck, My yo puts her expensive show jumpers out in nylon headcollars all the time. I am too paranoid they will hang themselves.
 
I turn out in a muzzle, which IMO is the same as a headcollar. It has plastic fixings though, and the two times he did get caught up it broke, thank God.
 
Never ever. Friends filly hung itself in the stable while she did Tesco run, only away for an hour.

Mollymurphy found 5 month old filly hanged by nylon headcollar in the field with its dam standing over her.
 
I prefer not to turnout with a headcollar. My old boy can be a git to catch in the summer but I still would worry about leaving him with a headcollar. If forced to it would have to be leather, old and held together with plastic breakaway bits
 
Llwyncwn ... that is so so sad what awful experiences ever to endure
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I personally never ever would and would not leave one on in the stable either as I have seen them get caught in there!
 
I have never turned mine out in one but have a couple of times at work for no more than 2 hours. My reason was I couldn't let him go, he is stabled and hadn't been out for about a week, he is 17hh and was throwning his self about so much I couldn't get the headcoller off with out getting myself hurt so I left it on.
 
I used to turn out in a headcollar.

That was until my horse hung himself off a fence, luckily i was around and managed to slip the head peice over his ears. (The head collar had cut off his breathing and he had collapsed leaving his head caught on top of the fence.

Its one of those things that people always say "it will never happen to me!" but believe me when it does it makes you sick.

Its just not worth it.
 
No never had to...my horses mobile stable is in his field and as soon as I set foot in the field and head towards the stable there is warm breath on the back of my neck and an expectant looking pair of eyes!!!!! I don't have to 'catch' my horse at all he just comes over to be nosy and see if there is any grub going!
 
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Its one of those things that people always say "it will never happen to me!" but believe me when it does it makes you sick.

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Thats what me and YO were saying today. You never expect it to happen to one of yours. She was telling me about a friends horse who hung himself in the stable and died.
 
Its got to be one of the most frightening experiences of my life, when he got to his feet and run off i just sat in the mud and sobbed lol.

He took chunks of flesh out his back from thrashing around and took the skin off his face when the head collar had tightened.

I will never put my horse at risk again like that, it was tottally my fault for not thinking about the dangers.......i still blame myself.

If people have to put their horses out with a headcollar make sure its field safe or leather as it will break at the stitching.
 
How random. The thread specifically says "Turn out" and yet people are talking about stabling horses in heacollars. No I would never stable a horse in a headcollar.
 
I admit to having turned out Mcfly in one a few times when I've asked YO or someone else on yard to bring them in for me only because I don't ask people often enough and he is not as trusting of anyone else other than us.
Take tonight for instance we get to yard to find other owners ( really nice people) who keep their's in same field as ours ( as geldings kept seperate from mares at our yard) say that he had got into hay field by accident lol. They had taken out their's and he had followed through gate and run straight into hay field and thought yum grass lol.
They said they had tried to catch him but he had led them a merry dance around the field lol.
Luckily we had got there soon after he had got out and when Nat went into the field he cantered straight up to her ( surprised me lol) and allowed himself to be caught.
Phew luckily because normally if we change fields he can be a monkey to catch hence the reason I bought 2 field safe collars this year to put on him when we moved fields.
I think for safety reasons I will be better off putting on safety collar if we ever need anyone to get them in for us as it only really takes the one time for a horse to get caught in a fence in a nylon collar and it could prove fatal.
I love both my horses too much to risk that and so from now on youngster will never be turned out in anything but a safety headcollar again if the need arises.
I think sometimes it takes a post and question like this to make us realise that we have made mistakes that could have ultimately resulted in the death or serious injury of our horses.
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Never turn out in headcollar or leave one on in the stable...but then I never have horses who don't want me to catch them.
It was the same when I worked in yards - we'd make sure the horses could be caught or 'walk them down' if in grass fields...or worried.
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