[LOVMYPASO]

I just bought a grazing muzzle and I am not sure if it fits right or not. I have looked at the website for the Best Friend grazing muzzle and they say they should fit like a halter but mine seems to not go behind her cheeks and looks like it sits too far up on her cheeks like it is too short for her. I also see other pictures online that they sit the way mine is sitting on my mare it is about mid cheek. Which way is right?

[JBandRio]

ALL the models of grazing muzzles that are halter-muzzle combos that I have tried - Best Friends, Jacks, Weaver, and another one whose name I can't remember - have the throatlatch piece that comes really low, like in front of the jowl. I hate it - my one horse learned that he can just rub it off over his ears

As for the rest of the fit - an inch, give or take, between the end of their nose and the muzzle piece.

[BettyBootsy]

So I may be needing a grazing muzzle so whats the best brand to get that fits and works right?

[JBandRio]

Originally Posted by BettyBootsy

So I may be needing a grazing muzzle so whats the best brand to get that fits and works right?

Entirely depends on your horse.

Weaver's largest size isn't large enough for my WB gelding. I love the quality of the BF, but they are so flippin' heavy that I don't use them anymore - I hate the thought of all that weight hanging on their poll for hours and hours and hours. My WB gelding wears the largest size of the brand whose name I can't remember My boarder's TBxPerch gelding, built like a solid Foundation QH with a nice big "old" head, fits a Weaver large just fine.

[LOVMYPASO]

Thanks JBandRio,

I was about to send it back because it looks so wierd but I guess that is the way it is to fit. Now I just need to get over the "ohhhh she can't eat anything" and let her get use to it. I have been working with her a little at a time this past week but she gets sooo mad and tries to shake it off. But I have to do something she looks like she is ready to give birth anyday now (don't worry it's not possible).