Will someone please design a muzzle that stays on, is light-weight, is breathable (so I don’t feel like I’m smothering my horses on hot days), and the horses don’t recognize from across the field as soon as you leave the tack room?

Not that the ones I have now don’t do some of those things; even the mischevious Captain Jack (Miniature Horse) can’t get his muzzle off. But having those hard rubber or plastic "baskets" make me feel like demon mom.

The dry lot is finished for daytime use (complete with crushed limestone instead of mud, newly bedded run-in shed, automatic waterer, and two fans), and the muzzles go on at night when they are turned out in the pasture.

I know they need the muzzles. Grass in Kentucky was designed to put weight on cattle, and it works the same for horses. And that’s fine if you are raising hard-keeper Thoroughbreds. But my poor old retired Paint and the two Minis just don’t need that excess