The muzzle can also keep horses from chewing on leg wraps, wood, or blankets. The muzzle is ideal for slowing down speedy eaters, limiting grazing, and can help curb minor cribbing problems. Even if accidentally ingested the polymers pass USA food safety regulations. There are no "off-gassing" materials so they are safe near the nostrils. This 6-ounce grazing muzzle, made from one of the most durable polymers on the planet. It is easy to have not only extraordinary comfort for your horse but also the perfect grazing hole size for all metabolic and environmental issues. To create a larger hole simply mark your muzzle with a pen and use a pair of scissors to cut the size you need.īecause every horses's needs are different we offer you a fully customizable grazing hole for your equine muzzle. ThinLine now offers muzzles with a 2.5 cm hole. The good news is, the flexible filly grazing muzzle limited hole size can be easily altered by horse owners for the perfect grazing opening. ![]() The Flexible filly equine grazing muzzle hole size is, you guessed it! Flexible! Therefore, ThinLine now offers muzzles with a 2.5cm grazing hole. Horses with laminitis, insulin resistance or those on lush fields need careful management and a 3 cm or greater grazing hole is too large to effectively protect them. There is a lot of demand for a smaller hole for extremely limited grazing. There are very few muzzles that are really suitable for 24/7 grazing. The Full ThinLine Flexible Filly Grazing Muzzle has a larger opening than the average grazing muzzle, which made this muzzle unique. Hay cannot be eaten, or only to a very limited extent, with an opening of under 3 cm, which means that the horse must actually be taken from the pasture, the muzzle taken off and then fed with hay and then back with a muzzle to the pasture. Owners should supplement feed in the form of hay, in order to guarantee the minimum intake in dry matter. This minimum amount of dry matter is not achieved with a 24/7 restriction with an opening of 3 cm or less. The digestion of a horse needs a minimum amount of dry matter to function properly and healthily. With an industry-standard opening of under 3 cm, the roughage intake is often limited considerably. Recently, many horse owners prefer to leave their horse on pasture in a grazing muzzle full time - 24/7, which has created a demand for a larger grazing opening. The most common grazing hole size on the market is about 3cm and is not adjustable. Restricted grazing for horses who require substantially less sugar intake 2 to 2.5 cm. Veterinary Recommendations for grazing muzzles hole sizes are as follows.Ģ4/7 Full-time grazing in a muzzle 3.5 to 4 cm. What to know about Equine grazing muzzle center hole sizes. *Halter not included, to purchase Custom Horse Halters for use with the Flexible Filly Muzzle available here. Full = 3.6cm, 1.44 inches or Restricted - 2.5cm. Larger horses, Draft, Warmblood and Oversize. Full = 3.3 cm, 1.32 inches or Restricted - 2.5cm. Cob, Arabian, Quarter Horse or Horses on the smaller side. Full= 3cm, 1.2 inches or Restricted - 2.5cm.Ĭob-Horse. Larger Miniature horses and up to large pony. Holes may be enlarged with a pair of scissors. ![]() Durability guarantee (6-month replacement warranty).Īvailable sizes. So light they won't even know they are wearing it. Additionally, the grazing hole size is adjustable, allowing you to offer the perfect grazing options. The Flexible Filly Muzzle is well-ventilated and safe, rated to break just before your turnout halter. It is effective while also being soft on equine teeth and lips. Constructed of a durable and pliable material that radically improves the horses' feel. We designed this to be softer, lighter, and less behaviorally restrictive. This Flexibly Filly grazing horse muzzle is unlike the typical cage-like apparatus of the past. With the historical cage-like or bucket-like muzzles, horses are unable to engage in social activities like wither scratching or other playful interactions resulting in social and emotional health in horse herds. ThinLine's research determined horses dislike muzzles because they cannot behave naturally in them. Horse grazing muzzles are a must for many horses but discomfort is not. Grazing Muzzle lightweight, breathable, durable.
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