Travel boots in the stable?

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Sealine

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With hound exercise starting this week and 6am meets I'm thinking how best to keep my coloured clean overnight for those early starts. He has four white legs including white knees and hocks therefore I'm thinking of putting some cheap travel boots (see link below) on overnight to keep his legs/knees/hocks clean. I'm thinking that cheap travel boots will be thin and soft for him to wear compared to his normal travel boots. It's soul destroying to wash his legs the night before only to find his front legs, knees and hocks covered in poos stains at 5am!

http://www.sportsdirect.com/shires-travel-sure-boots-767112

Anyone else do this? Does it keep the legs clean and are your horses happy to wear them?
 
I think they would be okay not much different to leaving leg wraps on overnight really, I used to use some old ones on my old mare as she had arthritis in her back legs and it just helped to keep them warm in the winter.
 
applecart14 said:
I wouldn't risk it to be honest. They look like they would slip down. Aren't stable bandages a better alternative?
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I did think about bandaging but I'm not sure if the pads I have would cover his knees and they definitely won't cover his hocks. I could buy travel pads to go underneath bandages but they are about the same price as the travel boots hence the idea of using cheap travel boots.
 
I would just get up ten mins earlier and wash legs off in the morning, if you wash and then spray with detangling spray the **** does not seem to get into the coat as much and it washes off easier, travel boots may not come off if they are trodden on and cause an accident.
 
I used to put horse wear rambo travel boots on my white legged welsh overnight the night before a show. They never slipped and he wasnt bothered wearing them and they kept his legs and feathers sparkly white.
 
I put some soft thin fleece boots on my coloured overnight to keep him clean. Cheap ones I got of eBay.

They don't slip, even when stabled with his playmate who's a fan of anything velcro. I have used bandages & gamgee but my boy is a midget so a large square of gamgee can cover his knees and hocks
 
I use to stable my accident prone decrepit old tb in stable boots at night just to minimise her ability to maim her own legs in the night. I do prefer to bandage but this mare needed doing every night when in overnight in winter and just saved a lot fo time she never had an accident in them and stop all the cuts and bumps she managed to acquire un booted
 
I would bandage, then just scrub any bits that do get dirty in the morning. If you're lucky it won't be too much. In my experience travel boots don't tend to stay up that well and certainly wouldn't cope with a horse lying down in them without slipping down or twisting round. The horses I worked with had clipped legs so removing stains was very easy, just a quick scrub with a damp cloth and a bit of fairy liquid and they were as good as new!
 
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