Rug Leg Straps

What do you do with leg straps?

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Rally Driver said:
We received a distressed telephone call about 5.00 this evening from a good friend and neighbour. She had gone out to bring the horses in and found her gorgeous 3yr old seemingly stuck in a ditch. Needless to say we went straight down.
To cut a long story short, after hours of trying with the help of the fire service and vet the horse was pulled from the ditch. It turns out that his leg strap had become entangled on the fence, he must have slipped trying to free himself, the ditch was of his own making in his frantic attempts to get up. Unfortunately, the horse was put to sleep due to the severity of his injuries.

A promising young horse has lost it's life and my friend is devastated all because of a stupid bloody strap. PLease people cut the damn things off !

Please excuse spelling and grammar, it has been a difficult night.
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So sorry, your friend must be absolutely devastated.
 
I had the opposite story the land lord is totally scared to death of horses had had to catch my mare who was throwing herself about because her rug had blown over her head and she couldnt see where she was going She was running into fences and could have been seriously injured so I fitted the leg straps and took off the fillet string it hasnt moved since. This rug came fitted with both and it had all the straps done correctly. I had removed the leg straps as she had previously been lame and we were not sure if the leg strap had caught round her fetlock and held her leg up fora time. It turned out to be a hoof abscess so nothing to do with the straps. She has been fine now for a while with her leg straps on
 
There was also an incident that was posted about on here RE a horse being PTS because it caught it's hind legs in the cross surcingles.

It is very important that all the straps and fittings are adjusted properly and that the clips (if the rug has snap clips) face inwards.
 
Loop if I have them on a rug or remove them if possible.

Saying that, both of my ginger ones have managed to 'remove' their rugs with just a fillet string (seperate occasions), thankfully neither panicked!

Rally Driver- that's awful, poor horse and owner :(
 
Rally Driver said:
We received a distressed telephone call about 5.00 this evening from a good friend and neighbour. She had gone out to bring the horses in and found her gorgeous 3yr old seemingly stuck in a ditch. Needless to say we went straight down.
To cut a long story short, after hours of trying with the help of the fire service and vet the horse was pulled from the ditch. It turns out that his leg strap had become entangled on the fence, he must have slipped trying to free himself, the ditch was of his own making in his frantic attempts to get up. Unfortunately, the horse was put to sleep due to the severity of his injuries.

A promising young horse has lost it's life and my friend is devastated all because of a stupid bloody strap. PLease people cut the damn things off !

Please excuse spelling and grammar, it has been a difficult night.
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I am so sorry about this horrible accident, but an accident was what it was :(

On my windy hillside it is very dangerous for me to use rugs without leg straps. A friend who has a place a little less exposed than me and uses Rambos with fillet strings had to pay for three rugs to be repaired last winter after they blew up over the horses' bottoms. That could have cause a very nasty accident but thankfully didn't.
 
I was always taught that you loop the leg straps except on Chaskit NZs with the spiders and they always used to say keep the leg straps seperate.

With the clips, I like them turned so they do up on the outside so if the horse rolls they don't dig in and potentially injure the horse but I know alot of people say do the opposite so they don't get caught on fencing, other rugs etc.

I used to work for someone who had a fillet string on NZ which broke, rug blew up and ended round horses neck. Horse panicked and bolted and tripped over rug at a gallop and broke its neck.
 
I always looped, but since starting to use PE rugs which only have fillet strings with no problems, have removed leg straps from other rugs as well.
 
Cross, for all rugs including Chaskit/Spider harness NZs. The only rug we leave the straps separate is the Boett for the sweet itch horse. Only had one rug which wasn't either a Chaskit or a Rambo and that had to be cut off a horse last winter when the leg straps got caught and he got cast. Thankfully he was fine except some nasty burns from the straps on the inside of his hind legs.
 
I loop leg straps - just how i was always told.

I generally use leg straps rather than fillet strings for turnout rugs - unless the rug has come with elasticated straps,then there whizzed off and replaced with fillet. Ive never personally had,or heard of, any issues with either strap method, so for the time being i utalise both. :D
 
Two of our three have the straps looped but we cross my sister's tb as it's the only way to stop him getting rubs on his legs from the straps (he's very thin skinned)
 
If I was putting them on someone elses horse I would do one up, then loop the next one through that one... BUT if it's my horse I cut them off and put a nice fillet string on :-0
 
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