How do you fit a horse blanket?

It is essential that a blanket should fit well on the withers and shoulders so that your horse can move freely underneath the fabric without the blanket slipping back. Adjust the buckles and ensure you can still slide your hand down the neck of the blanket.

How wide are horse blankets?

Standard size blankets range from 64 inches for small ponies to 90 inches for large draft horses, so carefully measuring your horse is the key to selecting a well fitted blanket that will give him complete coverage. Generally speaking, an average size horse will most likely measure somewhere between 74 and 78.

How do you measure a tough one horse blanket?

Measuring Instructions: Stand your horse as square as possible, and measure from the center of chest around side of the body to the point of the horse’s rump just before the tail. If your horse ends up measuring between sizes. always round up to the next size to ensure full coverage.

What size fly sheet for my horse?

Use a tape measure (the soft and flexible sewing kind, not the stiff construction kind) and a friend to measure your horse from center of his chest, across his shoulder, barrel and rump to the center of his tail. This number in inches will tell you a starting point for fly sheet and blanket size.

Is my horses blanket too big?

The bottom hemline of the blanket should hang somewhere above the horse’s knees and hocks, but low enough that the bottom of the belly is not exposed when viewing from the side. If the blanket hemline falls at or below the horse’s knees and hocks, it is too big.

How tight should a horse blanket fit?

The neck area on the blanket should be pulled tightly around your horse’s neck. It should fit snug, but not too tight. If the neck opening is too big or loose, then the wind and wet weather will get under the blanket, therefore the blanket will be kind of pointless and not doing its job.

What size should a yearling blanket be?

PONY/YEARLING 42″-46″ PONY/YEARLING 48″-54″ PONY/YEARLING 56″-62″

Should I put a fly sheet on my horse?

Although horse’s benefit greatly from shade in their turnouts and should be provided shade, fly sheets are light in color and help to reflect the sun’s heated rays.

What are the different sizes of horses?

Horse sizes range from towering, 6-foot draft horses to miniature ponies that barely top 2 feet. The average height of a horse is 15.2 hands or around 5 feet. Any equine measuring more than 14.2 hands (57 inches) is classified as a horse, and anything less is classified as a pony or miniature horse.