The only lycra ones I have found with the zipper is Ger-Ryan
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Chick’s house brand Rugged Ride has zip-chin models. I tried one last year and wasn’t enamored of it, but YMMV
(And I swear, I don’t work for Chick’s, they’re just my local tack shop and I check their sale ads all the time)
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FWIW my Professional Choice Lycra have forelock holes. Nice addition that the Weathbeeta knock offs didn’t. I got mine on Amazon 2/$20 with free Prime shipping from a retailer in Cali.
As soft and stretchy as they are I’ve struggling to think you’d need a zipper. And my mare is a demasking Houdini
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To be honest, I couldn’t expect the barn staff to pull my mare’s forelock through the hole, especially because it’s long and thick. Pulling on a lycra mask pushed it back between her ears and damaged it. With the zipper mask, it’s placed over her face with her forelock in place before it’s zipped.
She’s a Morgan, and the breed is traditionally kept with a full mane and tail. I’ve managed to keep her mane and forelock long for most of the time I’ve had her.
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For those of you with the Prof. Choice lycra mask, how does the sizing run? I have a Oldenburg mare whose bridle is a mix of full and cob size pieces. Her Quillin’s halter is a cob size but her GreenGuard halter is the warmblood size. I currently have the Shires fly mask where the cob is too small and the full fits okay, but there’s a LOT of extra velcro. I’m intrigued by the Lycra mask as I could put it under the GG halter not over it like I have to do with the Shires.
Go with “horse”. My mare’s head sounds very similar to yours. Mix of cob/horse bridle pieces and she’s a Walsh halter cob.
Perfect, thanks!
My horse must be the only one in the world that cannot wear those lycra-style fly masks. I got him a professional’s choice one and he was fine in the stall with it. Turned him out at night with it on and the next morning the BO found him with it twisted around on his face, lycra completely covering one eye, ears no longer in the ear mesh, other eye being mashed by the mesh pulled too tight across it. His one eye was swollen shut and took days to recover.
It’s Farman Supermask II without ears for my boy. The one he wears the most is probably 10 years old and still works great. I got him a second just in case one gets muddy and needs a bath he’ll have a back-up. He lives in it 24/7 right now, only off for riding and baths. He’s a sensitve-skinned appaloosa and not one rubbed place anywhere on his sweet face.
