We’ve had a truly odd Winter & now what feels like an early Spring.
50s yesterday, 40s today then a rollercoaster: 20,30,50,40…
Throw in some rain & possibly snow for laughs 
My pastures still look dead, but with the weather, I’ve been giving the grass Side-eye. Especially this morning when it was frosty.
So, mini got muzzled this morning.
Anyone else decided to be The Grass Nazi?
Hating his Life*:
*not really, he gets a low-sugar treat for putting it on & shoves his nose in GIMMEE!!!
Or “Oh, crap, I fell for it again.” le sigh
Our grass is still mostly buried under snow, but there’s enough coming up in the tree wells to make me think about muzzling starting tomorrow. I’m glad I’m not the only one!
I’ve had one in a muzzle all winter.
Poor little guy. You are obviously mistreating him, so he needs to come live with me. I’m sure he would do fine in my condo.
Rebecca
As long as you have Dollar Tree gingersnaps he is your BFF 
@NaturallyHappy
I’m gonna tell Bugs how lucky he is to have had a Muzzle Vacay all Winter 
Me too. I can usually take it off her, but nope, not this year.
???
Where do you & @NaturallyHappy live?
Here in the Midwest, my pastures - never lush, even in season - go dead at the tailend of Fall.
I realize even brown, dead grass has sugars, but in the 4yrs since Bugs first considered laminitis, he’s gone unmuzzled over Winter.
November-March-ish.
This year weather has been so weird I’m not taking chances.
I’m in the Midwest, too. We just haven’t had really cold weather for any extended time periods and some of our grass really is green.
I’m in the mid-Atlantic and it’s been a very mild winter. While it’s not growing, the grass has stayed pretty green. This was over the weekend:
One of my adult horses wears a muzzle in the summer and I was able to put hers away around November without issue. But the donkey was getting footsore with any amount of unmuzzled access this year. She’s also having trouble with foot soreness in cold temps.
I use a Flexible Filly Thinline muzzle on mine. For some reason, it makes me feel better- it’s not so heavy and dark😉. We also haven’t had much snow…lots of rain, though.
Lovely picture! That’s about what our grass looks like, too.
I hate the basket style but it’s the only kind that works for her.
Here in the PNW (west side) our grass never goes away…but last summer was so dry and our fall had zero rain to ‘restart’ the grass in September, so my IR/Cushings boy has been muzzle-less since October because there is just nothing there to eat…a bit of brownish stuff that’s grazed to nothing. I’m actually excited because he cannot eat hay with his muzzle on (we’ve tried!) and this way he’s getting way more exercise moving around his pasture looking for scraps to nibble. Vet and farrier are thrilled with his footsies and he’s been 100% sound (for a 26 year old former jumper).
Mr. Muzzle will make a reappearance in about 3 weeks when the grass gets growing again. He accepts his readily with no fuss so that’s good!
That’s some very yummy looking grass on the other side of your pasture fence. MY pony would be trying to snake his head between the wires to grab some of that.
I usually bring the muzzle out mid to late March, depending on what the grass looks like.
It is & he does 
To date {knockingwoodwildly} he has not hung himself up on the fence (coated tensile wire).
He has lost 3 muzzles in the bigger field.
2 found by me, 1 “found”, in pieces, by the bushhog.
Current muzzle is now wearing bright yellow duct tape across the crown & top of the basket.
That’s a freakin’ brilliant idea.
Many long walks thru rutted and/or muddy pasture sets the brain to thinking
I do that, too! I use neon pink though!
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