what age do you bit at?

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i have no intentions of bitting my foal who is 6 months old,worry not... however chatting to my farrier i was telling him i had a quandry. At the moment both my foal and horse are in the paddock at the back of my house due to the weather, so they can get into the stable. I have a 3 acre field a couple of hundred yards along a single track road from my house and when i turn Charlie out in it i always lead him along in a bridle - we hardly see a car, but my insurance has always told me to lead on a road you should be in a bridle. Which has made me wonder how i will safely get the bubba along there now:confused::o my farrier said he bits his yearling colts and i should do the same?
 
Mine has been bitted since a yearling to show in hand. Her lead attaches to her noseband but she knows how to wear a bit. She is completely unfussed by it.
 
It is pretty common to show yearlings bitted yes. Only in nylon bits though and a lot of people use a three way couple so the pressure actually goes on the noseband.

You can show in a filly slip but most people use a bridle by that age :)
 
My yearling will be bitted in January when she's officially two. I showed her in-hand in a filly slip for the last season, but she's very strong and I am going to be needing to have some more brakes next season!
 
pantomimetime said:
I showed her in-hand in a filly slip for the last season, but she's very strong and I am going to be needing to have some more brakes next season!
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Because of this! Mine is a reasonably well built TB with long legs. I'd have had no hope of stopping her as a yearling in a filly slip once she got going!
 
All of the welsh yearling colts that I have seen at shows have been bitted. I bitted my mare at 2.5yo but that was just to get her used to it for breaking rather than for showing (mares aren't bitted in welsh classes.) If you are going to show him I would say that he should be bitted for yearling classes.
 
Exactly what jesstickle said. Bitted mine at about a year old, maybe slightly before, purely to show her, but used a three point thingy.
 
18 months too, had him in it a couple of times at the end of this years showing season and will reintroduce prior to next years shows when he will be two.
 
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