Sausage boots/Fetlock rings

[Bounty]

Bamboozle has taken to moving REALLY close behind lately, so I've dispatched OH to get a sausage boot on his way home from work (Just as well it isn't me that has to drive right past the saddlers everyday!

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Am I right in thinking I want just one sausage boot? This is how I've always used them in the past, but having just checked in Robinsons that prices haven't soared through the roof in the past few years I've found that they don't sell Sausage boots, but Fetlock Rings in pairs instead?
Or is there a subtle difference between the two that I've not noticed?!?!

Also, anything else I should be doing to help protect her, or exercises to help her move straighter? She's going through a wibbly-wobbly baby stage at the moment

 

[Patricksmum]

Sausage boots are big stuffed ring type boots which go on a horse in the stable. They are to prevent horses catching their elbows when getting up or down. You cannot ride in a sausage boot as they are too fat.
Fetlock rings are sold singly & are a rubber tube on a leather strap & are a very basic brushing boot.
hope this helps

 

[Bounty]

Have just been browsing Google, and the things they are selling as sausage boots are HUGE compared to the sausage boots that I *thought* I'd been using all these years!
There still seems to be alot of variation in the fetlock rings though... the robinsons ones that are sold in pairs are fairly slim, whereas the Shires ones are sold singularly and are alot 'meatier'.
So complicated!

Thanks for your help

 

[vhf]

I suspect the names and designs are a bit interchangeable - not least because wholesalers will source the cheapest from abroad sometimes (I used to work as an equestrian buyer - VERY bad job to have, all those catalogues!!)
Just choose thin-ish one and don't ride in a pair - know somenoe who did, the buckles spun round, hooked together and... not nice story. Luckily boots broke first.

 

[Bounty]

Urgh, awful!
With the ones I've used previously the straps have always broken before I've finished using them anyway

I would take them to the saddlers to have new straps made, but he takes a lifetime to get trivial things like that done... takes him almost three weeks to restuff a saddle!

The rubber is beginning to perish on them anyway, so thought it cheaper and quicker to get a whole new one

I am the catalogue queen anyway... perhaps I need to work as an equestrian buyer to put me off, 'too much of a good thing', as they say!

 

[vhf]

Noo, don't do it! Worst job for a shopaholic horse owner ever! You'll never, ever have a penny...

 

[jumbyjack]

I took the strap out and threaded elasic through then stitched the ends together, a lot easier to put on and no problems with the buckles.