Taking Care Of Horses: Safety and Importance of Fly Masks

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It's fly season again, so it's time to talk about fly masks and why they're good for the horse. In this video I talk about the safety and importance of putting fly masks on horses as it can be a dangerous event if the horse is shaking it's head a lot when you're trying to put it on. Understanding how to put it on easily and quickly is important and knowing what size it should be for that right fit is also covered.
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Flies can be a real pest to horses as they drink from their eyes and chew on wounds. These irritations to horses make their lives harder and more stressful. While it's completely natural to have flies all over the place and be affected by them, helping them out any way we can is just good horse husbandry practice. Also, for wounds, it's very important they are either covered or protected in some way until they are healed up as flies can really gather on those spots and the horse will either rub it or chew with their mouth, which of course just opens up the wound again. This in turn slows down the healing process, attracts more flies and negatively affects the horse's health. All things I talk about in this video.
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[@Heavens-Humanaterian-Army]

I prefer the black bug eye and ear mesh ones that are clingy lycra they cling well look nice and you can still see there ears and eyes.

[@nikkib.5842]

my poor horse got some real bad conjunctivitis due to those darn things!

[@StableHorseTraining]

Are you sure it was from the flymask? The mask itself shouldn't touch their eyes unless they go and rub it on something. Usually these kinds of things happen from rubbing directly on another horse but perhaps your horse rubbed on another while it was on? or it got dirty from something? I've never heard of this before and had to search it out a bit. Thanks for letting me know that can happen, I'll definitely keep an eye out for that kind of thing (no pun intended)

[@nikkib.5842]

Stable Horse Training oh shoot sorry! meant the flies XD didn't think that wording through.

[@StableHorseTraining]

Nikki B. Ah, ok. That makes sense. Yeah the flies are pretty dirty creatures.

[@sueann9065]

Thanks. Excellent video.

[@mogauthier1000]

Luke looks like he’s all ready for his fencing lesson. En garde! 😂

[@StableHorseTraining]

😂

[@saylorrayne2358]

I have those two exact same ones!

[@StableHorseTraining]

I think they're kinda common

[@saylorrayne2358]

@@StableHorseTraining yeah... i mean those colors.

[@DebsInManchesterUK]

aww he lovely him he was looking at you as if too say look just put my mask on why is it taking you week to put it on lol You forgot to talk about fly spray as well homemade or bought You only protecting half the horse just putting his mask on

[@StableHorseTraining]

Luke is the best :) Good point about fly spray, I'll have to do one pretty soon. Thanks for the suggestion!

[@Beachy1955]

The person who can come up with a safe way to fully get rid of flies and mosquitoes will be a very rich soul. I hate both of those insects!! The masks are comical looking but if it keeps those damn biting things out of their eyes I think they’re a good thing.

[@yasmintounes]

I hope they invent something to replace these masques, I'm not confortable with it..... Like a fly replient that's safe for horses a collar or belt....