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| Consider me to be a blank slate here so I want to hear any and all opinions. What are your reasons for using them (or not using them)? Do you use them every ride or only sometimes? Is there a brand/type you prefer (shipping boots or standing wraps)?
I was surprised that there wasn't a thread about this within the last year when I did a search.
Edited by **Cowgirl Up** 2017-01-08 8:23 PM
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| Standing wraps are good if you know how to wrap them. They can cause serious problems if you do not know how to wrap them. Shipping boots just wrap around the legbto prevent blunt force trauma.i usually haul a short distance so I do not wrap. It is usually so hot in Texas that you can only wrapnin the winter months anyway. |
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  Independent Cuss
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Location: Dearing, GA | I've used shipping boots hauling over 4 hours with multiple horses in the trailer. Otherwise I typically don't use them. I ordered some from Chick's Saddlery years ago and they've held up really well! |
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Location: Jersey Girl | I haven't used any type of shipping wrap for YEARS. Of course I don't normally haul far. If I had one that had problems in the trailer then yes I may consider it esp so he doesn't tear his legs up.
If I were hauling any distance I would be more likely to used a standing wrap for support. |
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| I haven't used anything religiously in a while. If the outside temp permits it I'll use no bows and standing wraps over poultice coming home from long weekend races, that's about it though. If it's too hot out I skip the wraps and just cold hose and use a layer of poultice after runs. |
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Location: North Dakota | I've never found a shipping boot that I like. So I make my own.
About 3 layers of fleece, with a "tougher" material for the outside, with industrial velcro. They stay up just fine and I can cover the whole leg. Mostly, I only like to use them for the sole purpose of protection against scrapes, nicks, etc.
I'll either use my own shipping boots, or else I'll use my BOT quick wraps.
If it's hot outside, then I may opt to haul them with nothing. Usually, I'll haul with the BOT quick wraps to a race, and then haul home with nothing or with the shipping boots.
The longest haul I will make is about 3 hours. If I did ever do a longer haul, I probably wouldn't put anything on the legs.
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Location: SW North Dakota | Our LQ has a straight stock in the back. I love the space- we can haul 6 head easily. I am a recent convert to using shipping boots. Last spring, my son's head horse cut his back pastern really badly in some freak trailering accident (in a brand new trailer). I have no idea how it could have happened, but he was out for about 5 months. Since then, I've started using either BOT or shipping boots if there is a risk of them stepping on each other...
I had been hauling horses for 25+ years without boots, and seldom had an issue. |
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Location: North Dakota | I don't use any boots now unless I have one that stocks up-if that's the case I use the classic equine compression wraps. About a 100 years ago (LOL) when I college rodeoed and everyone threw their horses into a stock trailer I ALWAYS wrapped with no bows and fleece polos-too much screwing around to not wrap-had a lot of horses come off the trailer with bumps and and nicks-I'm sure those wraps kept my guy safe. I just don't see the need if everyone has their own slant-unless there is someone that fights in the trailer. |
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Location: Phoenix | I don't wrap. They usually end up tearing them off or sliding down no matter how proper I try and wrap. This goes for a 5 mile trip or a 1500 mile trip. |
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| BOT wraps and any trip over 2 hours. When we stop to let them rest, I will pull them off when its hot to let legs air out and brush off any shavings that may have gotten inside. |
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| So my question is this, I am making the 5+ hour drive to Jacksonville, FL in March for the Shamrock Showdown. I'm only taking one horse. She doesn't give me any problems hauling but the most she ever hauls is usually 2 hours and she almost always has another horse with her. I'm trying to decide if I should wrap/boot her just in case she gets antsy or something happens. Even in the deep south, I can't imagine it will be too hot in March... What do y'all think? |
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Location: Dearing, GA | **Cowgirl Up** - 2017-01-09 4:05 PM So my question is this, I am making the 5+ hour drive to Jacksonville, FL in March for the Shamrock Showdown. I'm only taking one horse. She doesn't give me any problems hauling but the most she ever hauls is usually 2 hours and she almost always has another horse with her. I'm trying to decide if I should wrap/boot her just in case she gets antsy or something happens. Even in the deep south, I can't imagine it will be too hot in March... What do y'all think?
You'd be surprised at how hot it can get in March, especially in a trailer. I'd let her legs breathe. |
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Location: Idaho | I don't use shipping boots, never been a fan. But if it long distances, I will put on the Soft rides. I hauled my gelding from Las Vegas to Oklahoma, 2 day drive (about 20 hours with stops), rested overnight in Albuquerque. Had soft rides on, he was not sore. I LOVE them. I only have one set so I put them on his front feet, you can put them on with shoes too. No big deal. They are amazing. |
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Location: Texas | I haven't wrapped legs in a trailer in years until we bought our new trailer and apparently loading her too close to our stud divider caused her to panic and she would climb the walls. She injured her hind leg and caused a HUGE hematoma that took months to go away. After that, I a) make sure to load her at the back of the trailer, and b) put wraps on her legs. I just use standing wraps and no bows.
When I have her in my stock trailer I don't wrap her legs. |
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