Stable Blankets/Sheets

Stable Blankets/Sheets

The Pajama section for horses!  Stable blankets and sheets are not waterproof, but they do offer cozy comfort for your equine friend.  A cotton stable sheet can be the perfect solution for keeping your horse clean the night before a show or great for him to sleep in if you clip him in the early fall.  Stable blankets are blankets with fill that help keep your friend warm in the winter when he’s inside and not wearing his turnout blanket. 

• Blankets getting funky? Click here before you wash them
  The most important rules for washing a horse blanket...
  1) Always use a detergent designed for washing blankets. Waterproofing is washed in by the manufacturers and can easily be washed out by you if you use regular laundry soap.
  2) Always wash your blanket in cold water, as hot or even warm water can also remove waterproofing.
  3) Always allow ample time for your blanket to hang dry before you bundle it up and store it away. A damp blanket stored away in the spring equals a mouldy blanket brought out in the fall.
  5) Try to find a bigger washer... stuffing a blanket into a machine that is too small can be bad for the machine, the pipes AND the blanket.
  4) Wrap vetwrap around buckles to help keep them from scratching the washing machine.
• Why the heck should I care how much my blanket weighs?
  “Fill” is the weight (usually per square meter) of polyfill that is inside a horse blanket. A blanket that looks thicker might actually have a lower polyfill than one that looks thinner because of the type of fill used or how “puffed up” it is.
  
  Different companies are going to have different ideas of what is medium and what is heavy, so you might need to investigate to find that magic “fill” number and then decide for yourself. You can, however, almost always count on a lightweight blanket having no fill at all and acting just like a rain jacket.
  
  Generally speaking, the higher the fill the warmer the horse!