canvas covered foam collar pad?

Canvas has a lot of tooth. Which is to say, it is rough. I wouldn’t want a canvas collar pad. Cotton ticking – like on the blue pinstriped deer-hair-filled pads – is smooth.

But to answer your question… I’ve never seen a canvas covered pad.

Hay Mark I few years ago I got a vinylized pinstriped pad that works well on this mare. I too had trepidation as to vinyl on the working skin, but it has worked, no hot spots , etc. I think it came from Meader’s

I believe that deer hair pads keep a horse cooler than the foam ones, regardless of whether it’s poly fleece, ticking or vinyl-covered on the outside. A deer’s hairs are hollow. I think this is what allows the deer hair pads to dissipate the heat better. You do have to watch that the ticking doesn’t get too grubby. The vinyl pads do have that going for them.

Of course, having NO pad is better than using ANY pad. But if you have to modify the fit of the collar with a pad, I do prefer the deer hair filled ones when I can. Sometimes the deer hair pads are too thick and I only need the small shim of a felt pad. Wish I could find REAL 100% wool felt collar pads, instead of mixed-material.

I’v been using the black vinyl covered foam pads for along time and have no problems. The pair of mares I use the most have quite narrow necks and it’s hard to get the heavy pulling collars narrowed up enough to fit the way I wanted so I picked up a thicker set of deer hair pads. To my suprise they have vinyl on the side against the horse. My big complaint with the old deer hair pads is on horses used every dat the pads stayed wet and the horses sholders never had chance to dry as well as the pads stinking. Theses new pads seem to be the best of both worlds so to speak. There has been only a few hot days so far but I’m quite happy with the pads and would say they are cooler for the horses compared to the black vinyl pads.

Tristan

That’s certainly true about the deer hair pads stinking. They do get to smelling like dogs. 😀

Yep, rotate them and when they are dry, use a horse brush on the face of the collar bad. I have about three stiffnesses of brush for my horses. The softest one (a face brush I guess – about what you’d use to buff your boots after applying polish) is too soft to do the job but a couple of stiffer body brushes do pretty good at getting the dry scurf off the collar pad.