Muzzling a youngster

[horsemads mum]

I am just checking it is ok to muzzle a younster.
Winnie is just over 2, she is 15.2hhs and is very chunky. the vet checked her in April when he did her jabs and her weight was fine (loads of people were telling me she was over weight at the time, she is big). but he did say to watch her weight over the summer with the grass. She goes out at 6.30 in the morning (cant get there any other time due to work, otherwise i have to pay someone to do it). She wear her greenguard muzzle when she goes out, when i get there at 2ish i take it off and she spends a couple of hours out without it. Apart from Fridays she doesnt wear it and a Wednesday when hubby takes it off at half nine.
i dont want to stop her getting the grass she needs and i cant fence any of her field off because it isnt my field.

Regards Angela

[My Crazy Clan]

Mmm normally I would say no I wouldn't use them but Winnie is very mature already, doesn't look like a 2yr old at all so I guess it would be best for her to be muzzled.

[amandaco]

i muzzled mine as a rising 2 year old- she wasnt too fat but the yard i was stuck on had rich over fertilised grass (other mare had come down with lami already :( along with 20 of the 34 horses on the yard that year! :shocked: !!) so i just did it until it had been eaten down a bit by the horse she was out with- she came in overnight with adlib hay.

i would have rather restricted the grass with leccy fencing but we werent allowed - you just turned out for a few hours....they had to have the grass a certain length or something

needless to say as soon as i found somewhere else we were gone!

[horsemads mum]

i have put some photos on the picture section. title of thread was Just a nice photo

[Spockky boy]

I would muzzle. I have a shires bucket like muzzle. I know Spock would get too much grass if he had a greenguard one.