Hi all. My boy normally has pretty good skin, but I think this year is going to be pretty bad for spring grass/fly junk. He’s already getting hives in the evening from bugs, and my special idiot likes to nap in fire ant nests. Like many chestnuts he’s a magnet for them and has weird reactions and skin things from it sometimes.
During the summer, I normally try to cover him as much as possible with the heat. He wears a big rambo fly sheet, mask, and boots normally. He looks like an alien 
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This year I need to figure something out for fly boots. He used to wear the Kensington fleece lined ones, and they were great in a small groomed pasture, but they couldn’t stand the mud and activity at the new big and muddy pasture. They were constantly falling around his feet no matter what, and then he just walked on them and destroyed them.
I got these next, hoping they would work better. They stayed up great but rubbed the heck out of his legs and I had to stop putting them on. He was naked the rest of the summer and cracked his feet stomping at flies, even getting a few bruises and an abscess.
This summer, I want to try and figure out boots that won’t fall and won’t rub. I only really need front boots, but all 4 would be nice if the price is reasonable. Any recommendations? Budget is around $50.
Or is there something I can do to help these current ones rub less? I thought about cutting a tube sock to fit over his leg underneath but I didn’t know if that would be too hot. Or maybe a single layer of vet wrap around the spot it rubs?
TIA!
