I also have smaller horses so a huge wrap might be a bit too much for them. I’m looking forward to learning how to wrap! It seems like an important skill I should know how to do.
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Ps- I think ice or cold hosing is a thousand times more beneficial than wrapping, liniment, or poultice, too.[/QUOTE]
Or turnout (when it’s possible).
As a foxhunter, I never wrap my horses after hunts. If it’s a really hard hunt, I will cold hose. Mostly I just turn out.
I absolutely agree- 10-15 minutes cold hosing, or with ice wraps on and then turnout is what I like best. However, my horses are in half the time and out half the time. If it is winter they are in at night, and wrapping overnight works well after a hard jump school.
Flannel bandages over no bows are my absolute favorite. I am the only person in my current horse life who prefers to do them with bandage pins. For learning purposes, though, I think flannels are great because they don’t stretch too much. Plus I love the way they look 
Naturally my current horse will remove any bandages I put on him, so when we show, we currently operate on the liniment or poultice plan with lots of cold hosing and hand walking.
I do shipping wraps (because I can’t find boots to fit my cob) and I usually wrap for overnight shows (or I did when I was doing those sorts of shows, haha). A friend has two of her horses in wraps 24/7 except when being worked because the senior OTTB stocks up easily and the grade mare has lymphangitis in her right hind and ALD (I think?) in the left hind and keeping her wrapped keeps the lymphangitis under control and keeps the other leg supported. She wraps all 4s on both horses because she doesn’t like the idea of only having one pair wrapped because of the uneven pressure. She prefers no bow style quilts and synthetic bandages with no stretch and velcro at the end because the bandages don’t absorb water and the no bows are less bulky.
I can wrap with anything but currently only have no bows for my cob. I haven’t found a quilt I like more yet. I also have the same synthetic bandages that my friend uses because they are thin material but nice and wide which makes it easier to get an even tension on the wrap. I also like that shavings don’t stick to the synthetic material. I would like to find quilts that have channels similar to the inside half of Climatex wraps because I feel that they would keep his legs cooler in the trailer.
Cob has been turned out in wraps a couple times. Once after a particularly demanding lesson, and once after his first drive on the road where he did a decent amount of trotting on pavement.
I like the Absorbine liniment and actually use it on myself when I have joint soreness or a tendinitis flareup that isn’t severe enough to require the more extreme ice effect of mineral ice. I also use it on Cob after our longer drives where his collar sat to prevent him getting sore shoulders. I rub it in when he has his full coat, but now that he’s clipped I don’t really need to. I have DMSO on hand as well but haven’t needed to use it on him yet. I actually use it on myself at times. It’s fantastic stuff, but it makes my mouth taste garlicy for a while afterwards. Not too bad considering how much garlic my family uses in our cooking, haha!
I use no bows when my horse stocks up and it doesnt go down after cold hosing and walking. Usually leave them on for 12 hours max, then take them off. They are easier to wrap tighter, so you have to be careful, but I can get them around the ankle a lot better, and thats where the worst stocking up occurs. These are usually my stained, beaten up ones.
That said, I will not linament and wrap. I had it drilled in my head a long time ago that its not a good idea b/c it could potentially burn, even watered down. I either wrap with poultice and paper bag, or medicine ointment and plastic wrap (nothing in ointment is harsh and it does a bit of a sweat too).
I am another huge fan of the Wilkers the previous put a link up too. They are the least fluffy and easiest to use without having to wash more than once. And then my standing wraps, I wrap like polos - front to back, pull gently across the front, top to bottom to top.
They do come in different sizes - 10 inches to 16 inches.
Also Letita just came out with ones that are cool max on the back, that I actually like for summer.
I’m editing this thread with an update.
A horse in my barn has a tendon injury and needs to stay wrapped so we’re using the wraps I bought until his owner’s wraps come. My no bows are 12 inches long and my standing wraps are ummm 89 feet long. I wrap down, overlapping about an inch, up, then down to the middle again.
Are my wraps too long?
As an aside, dumbass figured he wasn’t lame enough so he cast himself in his stall. 5 minutes of struggling hard enough to send us running he managed to right himself. My wraps stayed in place!!! So yeah?
Honestly, without seeing them there’s no way for us to tell if they’re too long or whatever. Hope the horse is okay.
OK, I measured them and they are 16 feet which is apparently “moose” sized and would explain a great deal about how much I have leftover when wrapping 15 hands of horse.
