All this talk of Winter/Hay/Rugs etc...

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I'm very glad that it doesn't yet seem to apply to me and mine! :D :D

Porky Beans in her diet paddock:

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The girls snoozing in the sunshine yesterday lunchtime :cool:

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We've got all this grass to get through yet (and this is the old stuff, as neither are allowed on the lush green stuff up the other end):

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And here is my 24 1/2 year old, poor-ish doer, veteran/cushingoid, who is beginning to get a bit of a coat:

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Both horses are out 24/7, no rugs in sight, no hard feed bar a bit of chaff and balancer each, and no hay in the barn, bar two emergency bales! :o :D

Anyone else not yet feeling the change in season especially?! :confused:

Oh, and Beans sends a kiss to you all.... :D

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Awww, smooch back from my girlies!!
I must admit Im not stressing muchly yet...both girls are on restricted, only have chaff and supplements, and wont be going onto anything more any time soon! Im lucky that we have tons of grass all year round, I think its the sheep cross grazing, it seems to keep the whole field fresh.
I am rugging though as its very exposed where the girlies are, and out shelter isnt ordered/up yet...Im hoping that they will do most of the winter in lightweights and fleeces....hmmmm...knowing me they will go into mediums though!
 
ho hum......my shetland has been in a MW day(out) and night(in) for like a month, and last week has been in a MW combo day and night!

dont dare tell you what the two in work are wearing!

shetty gets lo-cal and speedibeet all year round, there no way this one would have survived the shetland isles winters, he's the first one to feel the cold and not a super doer in winter.
 
Can't say that it has affected us either, madam is still out naked, no feed, no rugs - there's more than enough grass still available and she is approximately the size of a house anyway. :o

She'll be naked until the clocks go back and that week I'll do a small clip as she'll only be in moderate work this winter, at which point she'll come in at night and be out by day in mediumweight rugs. The heaviest rugs I own are 450g and they probably won't see use this winter, unless I change my mind and clip more off!

I also basically don't feed, or only a token feed of oats and chaff, unless she's in full work and hunting. :o
 
I can't believe how many horses I'm seeing rugged up with neck covers and everything. I tried a rug on my horse the other day because I'd got it in a sale and wanted to make sure it fitted as he is still growing. It says summer weight turnout on the label (I only want it for autumn/spring) and in the couple of minutes it took me to adjust the straps he was already sweating underneath it. It makes me feel sorry for the others they must be quite uncomfortable in their rugs all day.
 
Bella is out nekkid all year round and is on plenty of grass and no hard feed, but then she is a Welsh Sec D x Trad Cob so a good doer anyway. She will get hard feed once we start to feed ad lib hay in the field which at this rate won't be until November




Puppy how is new mummy Popple ? And her offspriing?
 
Mine has not had a rug on since April and will remain naked until the end of October hopefully. However she is getting quite hairy! I brought my friends horse in today and she was sweating under a lightweight turnout. There was another one in the field which appeared to have a turnout and an under-rug on, poor s*d.
Having said that its horse for courses and if I had a skinny TB I might well be rugging but for my chubby native x it would not be appropriate at this time of year.
 
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