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Best material to reduce hole size in grazing muzzle?

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My chubby Arabian is not losing weight in his grazing muzzle this year. Last year he dropped about 1 size on the body condition score in a month on this muzzle and this year, well, he has stopped gaining with it on, but is still overweight (it's been on 24/7 for about 5 weeks now). The hole on the bottom of the muzzle is a bit uneven now, so I can tell he's worn it larger than it used to be, but other than the hole size, it's in great condition. I saw someone online who had cut a smaller hole in a hoof pad and riveted it to the inside of the muzzle and it seems like a great idea to preserve the life on this muzzle while reducing his grass intake a bit more. But I wanted to see what other materials might work (partly because I don't know where to buy a hoof pad and partly just curiosity on best material)?
 
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The one in the picture was one that you use with shod horses, between the hoof and the shoe, it's a kind of translucent tan-ish shade. I also don't have a clue where to buy a rubber that would be thin and fairly stiff. Home depot employees tend to be rather confused when I walk in trying to describe a type of material I want. Since I don't want to use it for it's intended purpose, I can never find where in the store it would be.
 
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I never had good luck with altering our grazing muzzles. We have 2 horses that wear then daily. I have to buy new ones each year. The muzzle wears away due to friction with the ground. When we tried to alter the bottom anything we used tended to rub the horses nose and made my gelding a little head shy. We do resort to fencing off really small areas and letting them get eaten down pretty short and putting the two "cuddlies" on the short area.
 
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I have done this for my mini-donkey's grazing muzzle.

In the plumbing section of a big box store, look for a round, black, hard plastic disc with a hole in the middle. Might be with the black corrugated drain pipe? It has a kind of lip around the edge. It is about 4" across. We glued it (I think with the glue you use to repair tennis shoes? Sho-goo?) to the inside of the muzzle. It has worked great and held up wonderfully.
 
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