lycra hoods...

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hi guys and girls,

i am planning on getting a lycra hood for my youngtser to try and tame her wild mane in preparation for a few shows this summer.

firstly looking for reccomendations for good ones, and secondly... can or do you turnout in them, and how long do you leave them on for at a time.

thanks in advance.

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Personally I would avoid them like the plague!

My boy had one on and I'd only left him in the field for a few hours (I keep him at home so thankfully can keep an eye); and I went out and found him standing in the corner, with the lycra hoody thing all down over his face and eyes. He was just standing there, bless him, with his head down, totally unable to see.

If you do a search on here you'll see that we were lucky; I've heard of other awful cases where a horse was blinded coz their eye was rubbed by one of these hoodies.

I would never, ever, turn a horse out and leave it in one and after the incident I've described I got rid of the thing.
 
Don't turn pit in them, they're lethal.

As for taming a mane, providing its well cared for, you don't need to do much more, as you'll be plaiting it.
 
You can get neck only ones which are far safer than the ones that cover the face.
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^ Like this. :)
 
We use Lyra hoods on Friday nights to protect plaits before hunting in winter but these horses are grown ups I would never put them on a youngster .
To tame the mane I would put plaits in ( but not roll up ) and leave them in this is the best way combined with carefull pulling to tame a mane ,and I have tamed some turely awful manes I take them out once a week wet well allow to dry have a little pull and leave aday then plait up again .
 
I'm not pulling her mane this year- it was a nightmare doing it last year, so i've just cheated using a solo comb and rake. she has the mane and tail of about three horses combined. nightmare!

she is on a farm where there is always someone there to check on them, and i am there at least once a day. she is more sane and sensible then her 18yr old mother, so i'd be surprised if she got herself in too much bother.

my main (sorry for the pun) problem is that her mane is lying on the wrong side so need to train it over. even if i plait the mane, it sits on the wrong side. its not sticking up, its just on the wrong side! :D

she comes in everyday for handling, so i can just use it for a few hours a day like that, was just wondering if anyone did turnout in them.

thanks for all your relplies and experiences. ;)
 
I used to turn my horse out in one, we were at a yard where the mud was truly awful, we got the idea off another livery there, she turned out in one too. Admittedly this was before I'd heard the horror stories, but we didn't have any problems all winter.
 
If you're going to get one please get one without the "eye holes" -they're just so dangerous.
I put one on my horse to sort his mane - only overnight, in his stable - he's the most laid back horse ever in the stable, stands and eats, then sleeps, it's his "chillzone". For this reason I didn't think twice about putting it on him.
He wore it for one night and all was ok, wore it the second night - and I got the shock of my life when I went to see him in the morning as the hood had somehow managed to slip around and the material around the "eye hole" was half over his eye and cutting into it - incredibly gory. I was absolutely horrified, had to peel it off his eye and and removed it straight away, got the vet round etc and luckily (thank god) he was ok and just had an incredibly sore eye for a week afterwards which needed constant care. He was incredibly lucky as he could so easily have been blinded - the vet told me that they see so many cases like this which usually end badly.
Just be very careful - as he honestly is so laid back and sensible I thought it would be fine, it was only after that incident that I started to google and read similar horror stories of horses that hadn't been as lucky. I personally wouldn't turn out in one either x
 
starryeyed said:
If you're going to get one please get one without the "eye holes" -they're just so dangerous.
I put one on my horse to sort his mane - only overnight, in his stable - he's the most laid back horse ever in the stable, stands and eats, then sleeps, it's his "chillzone". For this reason I didn't think twice about putting it on him.
He wore it for one night and all was ok, wore it the second night - and I got the shock of my life when I went to see him in the morning as the hood had somehow managed to slip around and the material around the "eye hole" was half over his eye and cutting into it - incredibly gory. I was absolutely horrified, had to peel it off his eye and and removed it straight away, got the vet round etc and luckily (thank god) he was ok and just had an incredibly sore eye for a week afterwards which needed constant care. He was incredibly lucky as he could so easily have been blinded - the vet told me that they see so many cases like this which usually end badly.
Just be very careful - as he honestly is so laid back and sensible I thought it would be fine, it was only after that incident that I started to google and read similar horror stories of horses that hadn't been as lucky. I personally wouldn't turn out in one either x
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A similar thing happened to Spotsrock' horse, he horse wore the hood for years with no problems, it was crrectly fitted, one dayshe came in and her eye was hge, with th seem cutting into it every time she moved. Vet was called out ad unfortnaly she wasn't as lucky as the horse above^, she lost 75% vision in that eye, shes now a bit spooky with theings on that side of her and has hd to learn to live with it, they used to jump 1.10 tracks, now ponio lost all confidence and i back to building up from small x poles again, 65cm classes etc.
If you get one, get the one without the eye holes, it'll still do what you want it to do but is a lot safer.
 
Ive used snuggy turnout hoods on our hunters for the past 4 seasons in winter
extremely hard wearing and have never had any problems
 
Please please don't get 1 with eye holes. My brave pony has limited vision and her career is in tatters which is nothing to my guilt
 
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