travel boots for spindly TB legs?

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Ru has trashed her back travel boots to extiction and put a hole (graze) in the side of her hock to boot as she cannot seem to deal with left hand corners. However, that aside it means that I now have to buy her a new set. The ones she trashed were the Shires protect in cob size, which if I am honest seemed a little on the roomy side and slightly short.

can any ones suggest a suitable replacement?
 
Bandages it is then!

I must admit I bandaged her on sunday and she was loads better, however she still did knock the scab off the grazed bit so i think hock boots are now a must too.!
 
I use the Lidl travel boots and bandage over them. They actually fit a spindle-leg quite well, but I am paranoid about slipping boots (have known that CAUSE a bad traveller in the past). Hocks/knees covered, boots stay where I put them.
Have also been known to fit them high and over-reach boot all round to protect coronary bands - sometimes over the end of the travel boot, so it can't possibly slip.
 
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I use the Lidl travel boots

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your the second person to suggest these boots, as friend said something similar and I must admit I was a little disbeliving.

are Lidl still doing them do we know?
 
Lidl stuff is surprisingly good if your horse is the right size - it pretty much comes in one size fits all! I've got various things, including a schooling whip I painted flourescent yellow in a vain attempt to make myself look wider to car-drivers.
I hope they're doing it again soon as a mouse made a nest in my travel boots while they were out of action due to broken horse... annoying thing is last time I saw them they were £9.99 for a set and I thought "no point, the ones I've got should last ages yet..."
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Bandages it is then!

I must admit I bandaged her on sunday and she was loads better, however she still did knock the scab off the grazed bit so i think hock boots are now a must too.!

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so many horses dislike boots because thy slip and are never firm enough. Bandages are usually much better, as long as you do them properly. With a horse that kicks/bangs about i would never use boots (i dont use them anyway!) because the boots will more than likely make it worse.
 
The weatherbeeta ones are good, reasonably priced and the sizes are definitely aimed towards the 'thinner' legged horsie. They stay up well and have nice thick fleece lining.

Fiona
 
Another vote for bandages and gamgee/fibagee!

As an aside, was she travelling on a different side of the trailer from normal?
I normally travel mine on his own on the right and one day I had taken a second horse and put mine on the left. Honestly, you would have though he was having a fit or had his legs cut off with how badly he travelled. He was having horrendous trouble with right corners. I switched them round for the return journey and he was totally normal and didn't move
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Just wondered ?
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Another vote for bandages and gamgee/fibagee!

As an aside, was she travelling on a different side of the trailer from normal?
I normally travel mine on his own on the right and one day I had taken a second horse and put mine on the left. Honestly, you would have though he was having a fit or had his legs cut off with how badly he travelled. He was having horrendous trouble with right corners. I switched them round for the return journey and he was totally normal and didn't move
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Just wondered ?
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Nothing was different. Same trailer, same side. Even tried her in a 510 (mines a 505) and she was as bad. TBH I think is all stems from a bad trip she had new year when I gave a friend a lift for a short distance as part of my trip back from Yorkshire and she took the breast and breach bars down and her travel boots had slipped under her feet. I hadn't realised and she travelled a fair way like this.

On the up side she is still loading and travelles very well bar the whole corner thing, which is improving ( i think).

I took her to MKEC last weekend and she was better bandaged but still knocked her hock which was why I asked about travel boots, But looking at the many replies that advocate fibergee and bandages I think I am now going to get some hockboots and stick to the bandaging.
 
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