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[happystuff]

Horse can lose their teeth and also be without teeth. But with todays science, there are several feeds on the market that horses can get full nutrition from without having to have teeth. A pelleted feed made just for older/special needs horses.

So would there be a special kind of bit for horses with no teeth?

[boss mare]

So would there be a special kind of bit for horses with no teeth?

There is bitless bridles of various types, not necessarily for missing teeth. There is a certain portion of the horse community that feel that bits are cruel and should be banned . But the reality is, that anything can be used heavy handed, even bitless . The so-called mechanical hackamore works on leverage and they are notoriously dangerous in the wrong hands. I had a horse given to me in 2002 that somewhere in her life ( not the people I got her from) that had a broken jaw that even though healed , the the way her jaw was , was consistent with injury from a mechanical hackamore. I rode her in a bit. She was put down in 2017 at age 29 due to a stroke.

I could write an entire book on the types of bridles, bits, hackamores etc.

[happystuff]

Thanks, boss mare. This is my "what I learned today".