Old Style NZRugs?

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Our fields have bramble hedges and last year the little ponies wrecked about a gazillion quids worth of turn out rugs. Since they are woollies likely to only have a trace clip, and since winters are definitely milder than in my day, not arctic as the rug manufacturers would have us believe, I am sure they would be fine in the kind of green canvas nz rug my ponios had in the Dark Ages.
Anyone know where you can still get them?
 
The old canvas rugs rip just as easily. Try buying them the rugs that are made from the 1680 denier ripstop material, they will be mucyh stronger than the majority that are made drom either 600 or 1200 den.
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Kingshead used to do a very good one that only had leg straps that never moved; don't know if they still make them though. Also think Worldbeater still make canvas rugs and you could still get them at Beeston a bit ago. Chaskit also made decent ones. What sizes do you need? (not that I have any!)
 
Well very expensive ripstop rugs in size 4'6" may be hard to come by and even harder to justify, to be perfectly honest, unclipped, not a one of them would even have had a rug on twenty years ago, and they'd likely have been the healhtier for it.
The electric fence is a no no, we have just about had it with electric fences, my cob takes them apart for fun! We've just moved to get away from using electric! Admittedly the brambles aren't as bad here as they were at the last place, and a hedge trim might be the best answer, but I think I'll still look into canvas rugs - mine lasted years as a kid, these new ones don't seem half as durable, and native ponies don't, to my mind need to be wrapped up in a gazillion tog of padding.
I even had jute rugs and blankets on my ponies, when they were clipped, and loved them to bits. I still find the smell of jute rugs takes me back to my childhood!
 
They are usually out all day and in at night, though sometimes I wonder why - mainly because the grass doesn't stop growing round here and they'd get fat, I suspect!
Then there's the keep the pony clean and dry to be ridden argument, which I wince at, but still sometimes sign up to, I must admit!
Then there's the, mummy, everyone else's pony at pony club is clipped to the eyeballs and rugged to within an inch of its life defence, which I expect for the first time this year ...
Last year they had a certain brand of kiddy rugs in delightful colours which lasted about five minutes, despite not being correspondingly cheap (OK cheaper than most, but not pocket change) and were unrugged at night. But then they weren't clipped.
Ooh it's a dilemma.
 
lol, TBH I'd leave the kiddies to it. If they want to rug them up to the eyeballs let them do it, and pay for it.

Saxon rugs are a good price, and pretty tough, i think they're the toughest you'll get without paying the earth.

Oh, and they come in nice colours too.

otherwise try www.equestrianclearance.co.uk as they do good brand rugs at discount prices.
 
ekk - the amount of money I have spent on rugs and to go down to the field the next morning to find my pony has ripped the whole thing to pieces....I too run an electric fence around anything that looks like it could ruin my lovely rugs...
 
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