Lucky Snowball
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Nothing locally but travel bandages with knee, hock and overreach boots tail guard if a long journey or different transport.
The ongoing question.... travel boots and tail bandage or nothing?
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ILuvCowparsely
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I wont travel mine without travel boots, bandages tail guard, and use to use poll guard too and overreach boots
blitznbobs
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Nothing… occasionally a tail bandage - only ever bandages on legs if they are white and I need to keep them clean
SOS
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Use a tail bandage and sometimes tail guard on top incase they lean as have had tails rubbed raw on short journeys from leaning backwards.
I don’t use boots on my horses, I don’t feel they balance well with them on, they would only prevent minor scrapes and their legs get hot. I do occasionally use thermatex wraps if I need to keep white socks clean but only on a cold day.
I religiously only travel in leather head collars.
I remember watching one of my many pony programmes when younger and they showed how to get a pony properly prepared to travel. I believe it was poll guard, leather headcollar, cooler rug with surcingle, travel boots, tail guard. So definitely something that was taught to us.
Someone mentioned Badminton horses arriving with lots on… if I was transporting an expensive horse to a 5* event with ££££ entry fee where a small nick or over reach could lead to them not running, I too would bandage them up but that doesn’t mean they always are.
I don’t use boots on my horses, I don’t feel they balance well with them on, they would only prevent minor scrapes and their legs get hot. I do occasionally use thermatex wraps if I need to keep white socks clean but only on a cold day.
I religiously only travel in leather head collars.
I remember watching one of my many pony programmes when younger and they showed how to get a pony properly prepared to travel. I believe it was poll guard, leather headcollar, cooler rug with surcingle, travel boots, tail guard. So definitely something that was taught to us.
Someone mentioned Badminton horses arriving with lots on… if I was transporting an expensive horse to a 5* event with ££££ entry fee where a small nick or over reach could lead to them not running, I too would bandage them up but that doesn’t mean they always are.
myheartinahoofbeat
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Depends on your horse. One of mine travels in nothing and the other has a scar on a hind leg so he has gamgee, travel bandage and a travel boot plus over reach boot on that leg ( sometimes still manages to come off the trailer having made a little cut through them all). Both wear tail bandages
Maddie Moo
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Depends on the horse but when I worked as a groom, it’s always been leather head collars, overreach boots and a tail bandage. We did have one who would wear the shaped travel pads with bandages on her hindlegs but the others travelled without.