I have used the Equalibrium stretch flex boots for years with no problem. I was very happy to toss the polo wraps LOL
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Genuinely curious, what do you like about these? I’ve seen them in tack stores for years but only once or twice on anyone’s horse. They seem like even less protection than polos, IMO.
By all means, please feel free to post a video of your method. I would love to see it.
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No, thank you. I have explained it pretty thoroughly. Anyone understanding English and horses should be able to figure it out. I’m sincerely sorry if you can’t.
Question though, how the hell do you personally remove bot fly eggs? My horse got absolutely plastered with them yesterday which made me think of the folks on this thread who like to take minimal time fussing with their horse’s legs.
I guess it’s fun being an arse, otherwise why would you do it?
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If nothing else they work great on Irish Draughts with their short sturdy canons.
One size fits all
Thanks … I was wondering how folks who are worried about taking as little time as possible down around their horse’s legs could possibly take the time to remove bot fly eggs. No matter which tool one uses, it takes time.
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I have found that since using fly boots on horses stops the bot flies from laying eggs. 
Shoo Fly boots in case anyone asks.
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Like I said, I don’t do polo wraps. And I don’t have an opinion on whether you get them rolled up “right” if you roll them up off the horse. I presume it must work or it wouldn’t be a thing.
However I do think the slightly longer “exposure” time to hoof action is a bit of a red herring. We spend so much time working on feet or lower legs, including picking, soaking, and treating hooves, putting on hoof boots, some people use bell boots or sport boots, even just wrapping polos is fiddly IMHO, people also treat lower legs with liminments or for wounds, and of course bot eggs. And some of us rasp and trim our own horse’s hooves a bit, or a lot. And some people use electric clippers on legs and fetlocks.
In other words, we are down there a lot, and we do need to be safety conscious. But I don’t think the extra few seconds to roll a polo as it comes off is going to be hugely dangerous on an otherwise safe horse.
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Thanks.
Sadly, I have a bot fly orgy magnet 
I have pulled them off jowl/throat, mane, elbows, flanks as far back as stifles, chest, upper legs. Fly spray helps, but my horse has always been extra attractive to them for some unknown reason. I actually had her stand on the way in from turnout the other day while I chased one around her until it got close enough to smash. That was very gratifying - one out of how many? 
My horse was totally unconcerned. “It’s not like they bite. It’s fine. Ok. Whatever. Go ahead and smash my FRIEND. … Did you really just grind my FRIEND into the gravel? That might be excessive.”
I’ve never had fly boots on my list because she’s not a stomper, but may pick up a set for next year if they might lessen the amount of real estate I have to scrape during bot fly season.
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So I didn’t mention that I also have fly masks and fly sheets with neck covers :). Full coverage.
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Lol I can at least admit that is faster than pretty much anything I do around my horse’s legs! But I have no idea how you bunch that polo so small as you do that. Maybe I just have tiny hands (pretty sure I have blocked out a bunch of childhood piano lessons from memory).
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Lots and lots and lots of practice! Lol.
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I think you missed the point. Jobs take as long as they take. The idea is to not make them take longer than they take.
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What color is your horse? Bots seem to go after my darker horses. Or maybe my grays arr just to dirty
With regard to unwrapping, I use the quick hand to hand method @MHM does. My safety concern is for the horse, though. If something goes pear shaped, a partly unwrapped polo is dangerous for a horse to step on, drag or get tangled in, and I want it off and out of the way as quickly as possible.
Grey
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@Jackie_amp_Starlette Whose horse is intolerant of fly sheets? Mine. Yes, I have that PITA horse 
At least she tolerates being marinated in chemical fly spray.
@Graymaresrule She is dark bay, but other dark bays don’t get ‘hit’ as hard as she does. It’s a very weird thing. She’s also the first to get hit each season so I can let everyone know to start looking for them on their horses a few days/a week or so after her first strike of the season. When I first purchased her she had been living out 24/7 for a couple of years and not getting anything structured done with her. I had to clip them off her :o
Another hidden threat of polo wraps: very attractive to barn kittens.
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Score for the re-roll while unwrapping side of this hilarious debate - keeps kitten antics to a minimum 
