Question to people who have TO rugs with neck covers

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Just wondering as I have never had a neck cover on a rug before, but then I have never had to winter out a horse before!

Do all neck covers rub manes? Particularly considering my mare will be living in hers 24/7 when it gets cold.

I have just ordered one of these.....

http://www.molevalleyfarmers.com/mv...are-amigo-1200d-plus-turnout-heavy-rug-black0

Will she have any mane left by Spring?

Do you have any tips to prevent it rubbing? Would lightly coating her mane in pig oil help or just ruin the rug?
 
Never had a problem with mine, but they aren't out 24/7 and the only one who has a neck cover on 24/7 is my mare with Sweet-itch and her mane grows well under it, rubs it all off if taken off.:(:(:(
 
My sec A loses his mane a few inches in front of his withers when he has a rug with no neck cover. He's fine with a neck cover and as he's a very white grey (when he's clean!), wears a turnout rug quite a lot of the year. Even his thin stable rug has a neck cover which I just turn back when he doesn't need it and this works much better than a rug without a neck cover which rubs. Hope that helps!
 
ditto what Echo Bravo said, my mare has her sweet itch one on all summer, actually hekps it grow back! Not all of them do at all, although she's only in a full winter one for about a month max, it has never rubbed.
 
Thank you all :D Very encouraging so far!

But, do you think that a sweet itch rug, being so much lighter, might not be comparable to a heavy weight TO rug?
 
My horse has a mark Todd for daytime turnout only and it makes her mane lie nice and flat and doesn't rub at all. I used to stable an old horse in his full neck rambo (the same one he was turned out in) and his mane never looked anything other than nice and neat and flat either :)
 
My mare only has her Boett on in the summer and Autumn, till it get cold and then she's in what I call normal rugs, very cold, heavy rug and they have never rubbed mane off.
 
My pony winters out every year and gets a thin patch of mane every year sadly! It helps to keep pony and rug as clean and grease free as possible but i don't think it's something you can completely avoid unfortunately!
 
My mare is thin skinned and fine coated and every rug with a neck that I have tried (different makes, combo or removable neck cover) rubs the bottom half of her mane off. I have stopped using neck covers now. When she grazes the neck cover over the rubbed bit of mane would go very tight, even if it looked quite big and generous when her head was up. I have found that Wug/half neck rugs do not rub as much or go tight when she has her head down.
 
This is what I am worried about - I also have a thinned skinned, fine coated mare (ID x TB but completely inherited the TB skin and hooves ;) ) who doesn't like the weather! This will be her first ever winter out but she does have access to a huge, bedded down barn - whether she uses it or not is up to her and I guess on whether her hardened field companion uses it ;)

And I too have always thought that rugs with neck covers look uncomfortable

But I guess, at the end of the day, its better that she is warm and comfortable than the aesthetics of her mane!
 
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i have a few and only one rubs. I had a silky teddy and cut a big square out of it and stiched it into the neck cover. Worked a treat. Don't tell hubby though coz he bought it for me and it was quite expensive!
 
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Ravenwood said:
This is what I am worried about - I also have a thinned skinned, fine coated mare (ID x TB but completely inherited the TB skin and hooves ;) ) who doesn't like the weather! This will be her first ever winter out but she does have access to a huge, bedded down barn - whether she uses it or not is up to her and I guess on whether her hardened field companion uses it ;)

And I too have always thought that rugs with neck covers look uncomfortable

But I guess, at the end of the day, its better that she is warm and comfortable than the aesthetics of her mane!
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It was more the pressure that caused the rubbing that concerned me, rather than the aesthetics.

Here's a (wonky!) photo of her last winter in the snow. She lives out with natural shelter (hedges and trees) and ad-lib hay.

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My cob mare is out 24/7/365! Rugged in winter and wears neck covers when necessary. Have never had a problem. She's a fine coated cob with (for the breed) a fine-ish - and long - mane). All still there in the spring. One rug has a matching detachable neck cover, and one has a built in one. I prefer the former, which is a Mark Todd medium weight. The heavyweight with attached cover is a Wug. The TB on the other hand, always has a bit of wear-and-tear at the wither end of his mane, and I think that's the nub of the problem. It's not actually so much the rug, as your horse's conformation at the wither/shoulder/neck.

I'm a huge fan of Mark Todd rugs, especially for bigger-boned horses, and that goes for the neck covers as well. Give their web site a try if your current rug causes problems. Good luck
 
Ravenwood said:
Just wondering as I have never had a neck cover on a rug before, but then I have never had to winter out a horse before!

Do all neck covers rub manes? Particularly considering my mare will be living in hers 24/7 when it gets cold.

I have just ordered one of these.....

http://www.molevalleyfarmers.com/mv...are-amigo-1200d-plus-turnout-heavy-rug-black0

Will she have any mane left by Spring?

Do you have any tips to prevent it rubbing? Would lightly coating her mane in pig oil help or just ruin the rug?
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I have several of the Amigo rugs for my horses and none of them has ever rubbed, they are lined with nylon/silky type of material and leave the necks and manes very neat:)
 
It's not actually so much the rug, as your horse's conformation at the wither/shoulder/neck.
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I have several of the Amigo rugs for my horses and none of them has ever rubbed, they are lined with nylon/silky type of material and leave the necks and manes very neat
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It is quite interesting to hear other peoples experiances and theories as to why some horses get rubbed manes and others don't. All I can say is my mare has flat withers (she's half arab) and the rugs were all silky/nylon lined (horseware, bucas and shires) and they all rubbed her mane alot. :(
 
I always use rugs with neck covers or built in full necks on any horse i have had and have got now and not ever had a rubbed mane ever on any of them.
I also used to have that rug for my old pony- it was really good and kept him warm and dry with no rubs anywhere (he usually got rubbed shoulders) If its the same as mine was the neck
cover is very light anyway.
 
mine lives out 24/7 365 fully clipped in winter (ok - legs and face left on - not that cruel ;)) and her weatherbeeters and premier equines have never rubbed her mane :)
 
I find that Weatherbeeta and Rambo rugs with full necks DON'T rub out manes as long as you have a rug with a built in neck cover.

My TB mare lives out in hers all winter and still has to have her mane pulled every two weeks... the only time her mane gets rubbed out is when she's wearing a normal rug with no neck cover.

However, my boys who come in (who wear lots of layers, but always have a full neck as the bottom layer) do get theirs rubbed out quite badly...


Apologies if that didn't make any sense at all - they upped my drugs again and I feel even more ridiculous than I did before!
 
Thanks for all your replies :D

Interesting to hear your experiences. My mare has shark fin withers which may (or may not!) lift the next cover at the base a bit, possibly. We'll just have to wait and see - I haven't even got it yet!
 
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