Recommend a Grazing Muzzle please

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Anyone got any hard and fast favourites? Local tackshop said Shires are known for rubbing, greenguards are the best?

Any horror stories? Merci :)
 
I have a Shires and a Greenguard, both do little rubs in different places, so I switch them around to stop any sores.

I did find the Shires one rubs less if you make sure you get one that's slightly big.

The Shires one restricts the grazing more than the GG.
 
Most people at our Farm started with the shires and found that they really rubbed, they lined them with sheepskin etc, but still rub. In the summer they can get a bit hot in them as they really do cover the whole of the muzzle area, the greengard ones have not caused a prob, and now most people have changed to them, and the horses seem to be happier in them. Hope this helps.
 
When the EDT came to our yard last time, he saw one of the horses and immediately announced to the owner that the horse had been wearing a greenguard muzzle. She confirmed that it had and apparently he could tell as it had worn the front teeth down quite a lot. Dentist said that he had only ever seen it happen with greenguards.....
 
I....well the pony.....didn't get on with the greenguard one. I got a really nice one from dinky rugs (they do all sizes) its lightweight, has a padded nose and is a breakaway headcollar in one was a fair bit cheaper too :)
 
Depending on face shape, 'yawn' size and the way your horse/pony eats will determine where a muzzle rubs.

They all rub in one way or another. The key is to try different ones to suit nasal and jaw bone shape, also muzzle shape. Make sure you get one that allows enough gape at the bottom to allow yawning and side-side movement.

Big cobby lips do not suit greenguards. They are better suited to small muzzled ones.

The shires suits a couple of ours, the headcollar rubs on near the ears but you just have to adapt as you see fit.
 
I've tried Shires and it was OK although I did have to buy a cob size for an 11hh pony! I padded the edge of the bucket bit with strips of car sponge covered in fleece and it doesn't rub.
The first one wore through on the rubber base after one season so I thought I would try Dinky Rugs - that muzzle lasted four weeks before he chewed his way through the bottom of it, so we're back with Shires again now.
 
My two are in GreenGuards. They did cause a few minor rubs so I did have to pad/smooth in different areas for each of them but they both get on fine with them. Little fella refused to even attempt to eat through the bucket type with a single hole but gets his head down and eats normally (well as normally as he can through a muzzle) in the GG. The GG does allow more grass through then the bucket type but I remedied this, when required, by covering up some of the holes in the GGs with smooth plastic :)

Both boys have seen the dentist twice since starting to wear them last spring and he didn't find any muzzle related probs with their teeth.
 
I use the shires one, I buy proper sheepskin nose bands, cut them in half length ways attach to the inside of the muzzle rim with spur straps no sewing involved, I also use the spares from the greenguard muzzle we tried, the centre strap and extra throat lash are attached to the shires muzzle so he can't get it off.

Had dentist recently and he said his teeth were remarkable for his age (he is 33) so no issues there

In the greenguard one he was happy because he was just moving it to the side and eating the grass, I tried the old version and the new bigger version, so if it is for a laminitic I would strongly recommend watching your horse/pony grazing to check they are not doing the same, it could save their life
 
I had the shires one and my boy got really stressed with it on to the point where he was going to injure himself if we left it on. We then tried him with a green guard muzzle and he was happier although not quite as restricting, I would reccomend the green guard.
 
Definatly agree that green guard are the best. The shores bucket style ones restrict the grazing too much, they run the nose and chin as the horse eats. Also the horse bites the rubber at the bottom potentially making the hole very large very quickly.

The green guard muzzle was made with bet input. It doesn't restrict the horse from drinking. Is made of plastic not material so doesn't hold the water. It restricts the amount of grass coming through the slats but te horse still grazes in te normal Watson also causes less damage to front teeth.

My green guard muzzle is on its 3rd year this year and still no damage or wear to it. I attach it to a fieldsafe headcollar just invade the horse was to get stuck. In all that time it did occasionally rub but that was the year she had it on 24/7 and I used a polite headpiece pad to put around the nose band of the headcollar..... Problem solved.
 
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