I’ll second the Clothes horse pillows. Flannel is grippy and just thick enough. I am also still recovering from the thought of flannel out on Wilkers, OMG! As crazy as moving up the saddle pad against the hair.
I need to know the rationale for flannel bandages being fuzzy side out, too. I came up through Pony Club, and have a preference for flannels and quilts, but never one time heard about wrapping them fuzzy side out.
I don’t know about rationale, but I grew up in pc as well and worked with racehorses and that was just how it was done (the flannels, not the quilts-- although no one really used Wilkers quilts then, it was always bandage cotton for pc and sheepskins or pillow wraps for every day standing wraps.) Of course, the racehorse barns in this area all used straw so having shavings/ sawdust stick to everything wasn’t really an issue.
No bows for standing bandages and old school Triple Crown pillows for shipping, both with flannels (fuzzy side out) and bandage pins for me. And no, in >25 years I’ve never yet had an accident with the pins. Loved the look on my fav vet’s face the 1st time I brought a horse in and he saw the wraps…he spent his summers and vacations during school working for a steeplechase trainer. After my jumper got his injections he’d always grab wraps and help me rewrap, just for fun. When I volunteered with the local Pony Club in the late '80’s they required the kids to buy flannels that were fuzzy on both sides, but I haven’t found those in years.
I can’t tell you why fuzzy side out is The Right Way, but my best guess is that it is fractionally whiter than the non fuzzy side, so maybe that is it. And as long as you knock 'em off with a stiff brush before you pull them, as was said earlier, they are fine.
I can’t find the exact picture, but here’s a video. That bandage job is a work of art: bandage lines even, not below the pastern, fuzzy side out and NO QUILT STICKING OUT TOP OR BOTTOM. As Susan said, there is hope!
It looks like his wraps were just taped (masking tape?)? I don’t see pins, or bulges from pins?
