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Location: North Dakota | Are there any cinches that don't slip but are good for sensitive horses? Cash hates mohair, felt, and neoprene and is NOT shy about telling me. He only likes fleece but my toklat fleece cinch is so darn slippery. I'd like to find a happy medium.
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Location: California | I use Professional's Choice Shearling on my sensitive mare. You do have to take care of them, but they are worth it. Good luck! |
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Location: Southeast Louisiana | If you get a chance, or have the money, try a Len Brown Never Tight! They don't have to be very tight at all to work well and they do not slip. I have jumped on and forgotten to tighten up my girth and the saddle never moved, with the girth just barely tight. Those things are great. |
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Location: North Dakota | phillyincal - 2017-07-10 10:51 AM I use Professional's Choice Shearling on my sensitive mare. You do have to take care of them, but they are worth it. Good luck!
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Location: Lala Land | I like the Classic or the Pro Choice fleece
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Location: North Dakota | streakysox - 2017-07-13 10:47 AM Ulcers?
Just sensitive skin. He is the least likely candidate for ulcers in the universe. He has allergies and gets welts from bug bites, he has bad skin reactions to some products (MTG and that spot treatment for ticks and flies, for example), and I can only use certain brushes on him. He is the same way with saddle pads too. He doesn't like felt pads. Once I started using a thinline pad with sheepskin on the bottom, that helped a lot. |
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Location: nj | I have one with sensitve skin and find the pro choice wool or shearling work the best - I just keep two and keep washing them off. Also I always wash off his girth area, towel it and spray with Fungasol (which really helps alot). Before that I had problems with rashes, bumps, sometimes becoming sores/scabs. I also use a saddle pad with wool or shearling fleece. I ride in a treeless - so I get the slippery part - but it is worse dealing with rubs etc. Same thing with sensitve to certain brushes, harsh flyspray, etc.
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| cavyrunsbarrels - 2017-07-13 2:02 PM
streakysox - 2017-07-13 10:47 AM Ulcers?
Just sensitive skin. He is the least likely candidate for ulcers in the universe. He has allergies and gets welts from bug bites, he has bad skin reactions to some products (MTG and that spot treatment for ticks and flies, for example), and I can only use certain brushes on him. He is the same way with saddle pads too. He doesn't like felt pads. Once I started using a thinline pad with sheepskin on the bottom, that helped a lot.
Yeah, I have one that is the least likely candidate for ulcers too. She kept getting more and more cinchy. You can drill on her and drill and drill. Nothing bothers her. She threw me on Sunday two weeks ago and was at the vet on Tuesday. Vet said ulcers. We treated and she is much better. |
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Location: North Dakota | streakysox - 2017-07-13 7:12 PM cavyrunsbarrels - 2017-07-13 2:02 PM streakysox - 2017-07-13 10:47 AM Ulcers? Just sensitive skin. He is the least likely candidate for ulcers in the universe. He has allergies and gets welts from bug bites, he has bad skin reactions to some products (MTG and that spot treatment for ticks and flies, for example), and I can only use certain brushes on him. He is the same way with saddle pads too. He doesn't like felt pads. Once I started using a thinline pad with sheepskin on the bottom, that helped a lot. Yeah, I have one that is the least likely candidate for ulcers too. She kept getting more and more cinchy. You can drill on her and drill and drill. Nothing bothers her. She threw me on Sunday two weeks ago and was at the vet on Tuesday. Vet said ulcers. We treated and she is much better.
Being cinchy can surely be a sign, but he has not been exposed to any causes and exhibits no signs of ulcers. He's gotten better, not worse, since switching to a fleece cinch and pad and isn't sensitive to touch in that area. In fact he's not cinchy at all now. I just don't like the fact that the fleece is slippery. |
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Location: Texas | I was told when I bought my Toklat wool fleece cinch that they come with a slick sort of coating & will slip until washed. Try washing with gentle soap & rinsing well (I use my EZ All Body Wash) |
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Location: Tulsa, Ok | Professional's Choice makes a shearling girth where the shearling velcros on. It can be removed and washed. This is the only girth that works well for my daughters grey mare that is extremely sensitive due to very slick hair and thin skin. |
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