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Are rubber bits bad for horses?

I'm riding my eventing horse in a D-ring broken stainless steel broken snaffle very simple and quite mild. However, he has a soft mouth and I like to maintain bit contact, so I want to get a rubber bit, but I've heard that the rubber can be toxic if the horse chews on it. Is this true? My horse really likes to chew things especially when I'm riding him (my current bit shows the signs of that, lol), so what do you think?

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It's completely reasonable in some areas and unrealistic in others, you need to give an examples.
could be the CV joint pretty strong chance too. I just dont know why the tire shop wouldn't have caught it. wouldn't be the first i've every seen though by no means. you could also have a blown front mcpherson strut allowing the tire to bounce. try pushing down on the front corner of your fender and see if it pushes easily, it wont be extreem soft but compair it to the other front corner. If clearly softer your strut is bad.dont expect to see oil as it may have blown during the winter and rain washed the oil away.
The usual pressure of water supplied to your house is under 100 PSI, most often between 30 - 80 PSI, but is often regulated down as it enters your house. You MAY achieve a greater flow through your hose by using a larger diameter hose ID, but this would come at the expense of discharge pressure, and effect the distance the water would spurt from the hose. Going to a SMALLER discharge opening would maintain more of your initial household outlet pressure, and cause the water to shoot farther. (Think of the tapered nozzles used by fire fighters, and twist style Garden hose nozzles.) You can get what is called a Sweeper Nozzle at most hardware stores that provide an SMALLER discharge opening, but this comes at the expense of flow volume, which might NOT be suitable with a slip and slide, which requires a sufficient amount of water to be SAFE. To get a REAL increase in pressure you would need to add a pump, capable of the pressure you require, between the water supply, the hose bibb / faucet, and the hose. Keep in mind the Hose now needs to be suitable for the MAXIMUM discharge pressure of the pump.
1st of all most likely you have 1/2 water line running through your house and to where your hose screws to house so dont use a bigger hose than 1/2 inch

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