I am really frustrated with my one horse Carmen. She is not IR, but a very easy keeper, built more like a Hafflinger, then the Appaloosa she is!
Thus, last year it was quite easy to manage her weight, by having her in the corral during the day, with a bit of hay, and turning her out over night with a grazing muzzle
The muzzles that come as one unit, did not work for her, as she would have them off in no time, either rubbing or rolling.
I then went to a breakaway halter, and the Best Friend muzzle that attaches to it. That worked last year, but most likley because the hole was enlarged, she did not try overly hard to get rid of it
Took me quite a while to track down a new source of that muzzle, but finally managed to find the wholesaler in Canada, and local supplier.
Well, she now gets that one off also, even if she has to gouge herself!
Thus, I'm getting alot more exercise, getting her in and out. My next attempted solution, is to put up portable electric fencing,, in an area where there are no trees to rub on, no shelter, and no fence posts that don't have a hot wire !
Anyone have a better solution, I'm all ears!
Good thing Smilie, my IR horse, who is allowed some pasture time, with a muzzle, for the first time in two years, has not figured that out, nor her buddy Charlie, who is out with a muzzle all day!
Thus, last year it was quite easy to manage her weight, by having her in the corral during the day, with a bit of hay, and turning her out over night with a grazing muzzle
The muzzles that come as one unit, did not work for her, as she would have them off in no time, either rubbing or rolling.
I then went to a breakaway halter, and the Best Friend muzzle that attaches to it. That worked last year, but most likley because the hole was enlarged, she did not try overly hard to get rid of it
Took me quite a while to track down a new source of that muzzle, but finally managed to find the wholesaler in Canada, and local supplier.
Well, she now gets that one off also, even if she has to gouge herself!
Thus, I'm getting alot more exercise, getting her in and out. My next attempted solution, is to put up portable electric fencing,, in an area where there are no trees to rub on, no shelter, and no fence posts that don't have a hot wire !
Anyone have a better solution, I'm all ears!
Good thing Smilie, my IR horse, who is allowed some pasture time, with a muzzle, for the first time in two years, has not figured that out, nor her buddy Charlie, who is out with a muzzle all day!