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| My old mare's rear legs are getting eatin up terribly by fly's this year. What fly boots acutally stay up and can handle being in a 5 acre pasture all day? My Mare has COPD so keeping her up is out of the question. Thanks for your input! |
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Location: Oklahoma | I like the Kensington boots the best. |
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Location: Never in one place long | I bought some fly leggins, I like them but they get a lot of grass seed heads stuck in them! It's really hard to get them out but I think it'll be that way with any fly boot, they do stay on and stay put though, that really impressed me. |
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| I really like my Shoofly Leggins. They are lose fitting but stay in place. They dont get their legs hot and they hold up in lots of terrain. Friends of mine has a pond and they stay on in that stuff too. |
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| I'll put another vote in for the Shoofly Leggings! My gelding is so much happier. |
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I keep my change in my pockets
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Location: MN | I have an old mate that I keep fly boots on all summer. She goes through 2 sets every summer. Our horses are rotated on three pastures and one pasture has a creek running through it, so the boots get a work out. I order mine from a lady in Iowa, last year I had her put another stay in the boots like shoo fly boots. She gladly did this for me. |
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Location: Nebraska | dawnb - 2015-07-29 2:45 PM I have an old mate that I keep fly boots on all summer. She goes through 2 sets every summer. Our horses are rotated on three pastures and one pasture has a creek running through it, so the boots get a work out. I order mine from a lady in Iowa, last year I had her put another stay in the boots like shoo fly boots. She gladly did this for me.
If you order from Linda Long, she's amazing to work with. I've ordered 5 or 6 sets from her for my 5 horses. All the boots held up well considering how rough my horses were on them! |
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| I LOVE my ShooFly boots. They wear them 24/7. I also sell them, 55 that's shipped too. No tax |
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Location: Purcell Ok | I too love the Shoofly Leggins! They stay on great, and won't scrunch down. I've only ordered 1 set but will defiantly be ordering more.
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I keep my change in my pockets
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Location: MN | brlracerchick - 2015-07-29 3:34 PM
dawnb - 2015-07-29 2:45 PM I have an old mate that I keep fly boots on all summer. She goes through 2 sets every summer. Our horses are rotated on three pastures and one pasture has a creek running through it, so the boots get a work out. I order mine from a lady in Iowa, last year I had her put another stay in the boots like shoo fly boots. She gladly did this for me.
If you order from Linda Long, she's amazing to work with. I've ordered 5 or 6 sets from her for my 5 horses. All the boots held up well considering how rough my horses were on them!
Yes I order from her! I got to remember to get an order in with her tomorrow. |
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | Shoofly |
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Location: North Dakota | Are there any fly boots you can ride in? Despite drenching my horse in bug spray before I rode yesterday, he was throwing fits from all the bugs on him. |
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| Thanks everybody! I ordered some but my poor mare got so ate up on one back leg that she is really sore. I put her in a stall and have a fan on her but she didn't have much of an appetite for grain this morning and went straight for hay :( could the flies of transmitted a disease to her? |
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| Shoofly boots all the way. Nothing works better. |
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Location: somewhere up north | Kgirl - 2015-07-30 10:15 AM Thanks everybody! I ordered some but my poor mare got so ate up on one back leg that she is really sore. I put her in a stall and have a fan on her but she didn't have much of an appetite for grain this morning and went straight for hay :( could the flies of transmitted a disease to her?
This happened to one of my mares too. Her legs swelled up and got infection. Now treating that with furazone and dmso and IV antibiotics. She is the only one that was affected out of several in our pasture. Our vet is thinking it must be from bugs or some sort of insect. Stupid bugs!! Just seemed to bother her more than others I guess...not entirely sure. But once this gets healed up she will hae fly boots on and now the rest do just for a precaution. |
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Location: Where the long tails flow, ND | Shoofly! |
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