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Friends/liveries horses are out 24/7 in rainsheets. No fill. One has a full clip, the other a blanket clip. It was -1*c last night/this morning.
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I can't tell if they are losing weight as i don't often see them (they're usually finished riding and back in the field by the time i get there in the evening).

I said last night 'Thats not a very thick rug, bit cold for one that light isn't it?!' to which i got the reply 'We'll change them to the heavier ones on Sat when the clocks change.'
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These are the same people who feed (hard feed) and then ride straight after....
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So the clocks changing means the horses will be colder does it?? And they ride straight after feeding??
Why is it that nothing ever happens to people like this yet the people that try do everything they can for their horses always end up loosing one to colic or something similar.
 
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So the clocks changing means the horses will be colder does it?? And they ride straight after feeding??


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Apparently it does.

And when we said you really shouldn't feed them before riding they said 'Well we've always done it like this.'
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Yes I would, I wouldn't personally keep a fully clipped horse out

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Georgie is fully clipped and out still at the moment - he's in a medium weight with high neck and is toasty warm. Whats so awful about that?
 
Well sounds like you have done what you can, some people have some strange ideas but there isn't much you can do about it.
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My farrier recons there is one bitch, one thief and someone with questionable stable management on every yard!!!!
 
some people are so stupid my horse who is not clipped and will not be clipped this year has got a thick rug on. I will also put another one on him when it gets even colder!
 
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My farrier recons there is one bitch, one thief and someone with questionable stable management on every yard!!!!

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Only one??! We have a yard full of bitches and at least half of them are useless when it comes to any knowledge of horses... or for that matter any general knowledge!!
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Personally i wouldnt as its there horses, nothing to do with me. There is someone on my yard similar, her horse was out last night in rain sheet, fully clipped - it didnt even have a neck bit on the sheet
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I dont see it as my place to say anything, as i hate interferring with others, i just get on with my own thing at the yard.
 
if they have lots of hay or haylage to munch all night, to keep them warm, they're probably alright. i will not even go into the idiocy of putting thicker rugs on when the clocks change... let's just hope we don't have an Indian Summer starting on Saturday, cos they'll be sweltering.
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as for riding straight after feeds, as long as they're not doing hard and or fast work, it's prob okay tbh. i wouldn't do it, but for a hack they're okay. it's only if they have a full tummy of hard feed and are then asked to gallop that i think it's an absolute no-no. i think the endurance people feed during the competitions, at the vetgates... not something i know anything about though!
tbh having said something and been brushed off, there's not a lot you can do, other than turn up at the yard at the crack of dawn and video them shivering...
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Yes I would, I wouldn't personally keep a fully clipped horse out

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Georgie is fully clipped and out still at the moment - he's in a medium weight with high neck and is toasty warm. Whats so awful about that?

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Prob not a lot, but I personally wouldn't the rug don't cover their belly's and I don't like the thought of clipped horse sleeping in wet fields, I'd rather rug so horse didn't grow such a thick coat
 
No their horses don't have neck covers either. Literally rainsheet.
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I don't know what else i can say really.
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There are a few other things which i don't quite get about them either.
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I mean B is chaser clipped and in a medium weight with a neck cover over night and naked during the day. H is naked but with full winter coat, the only one of ours which has a rainsheet on has a full winter coat!
 
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if they have lots of hay or haylage to munch all night, to keep them warm, they're probably alright. i will not even go into the idiocy of putting thicker rugs on when the clocks change... let's just hope we don't have an Indian Summer starting on Saturday, cos they'll be sweltering.
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as for riding straight after feeds, as long as they're not doing hard and or fast work, it's prob okay tbh. i wouldn't do it, but for a hack they're okay. it's only if they have a full tummy of hard feed and are then asked to gallop that i think it's an absolute no-no. i think the endurance people feed during the competitions, at the vetgates... not something i know anything about though!
tbh having said something and been brushed off, there's not a lot you can do, other than turn up at the yard at the crack of dawn and video them shivering...
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No hay, well maybe a few sections but we haven't put any big bales out yet. Feed before schooling in the arena i think? Or lessons?
 
I wouldn't say anything. Especially if I couldn't notice a condition change. Not my horse, not my business. You've already mentioned it and thery said they will be rugging heavier at the weekend so I would leave it at that.
 
Two fully clipped ones of mine have m/w with neck on, other fully clipped has medium high neck on (welsh d x tb) and the old lad had medium standard neck rug on, they are all happy and warm.........

As for saying something, to be honest it's up to them what rugs they put on.......... Perhaps in passing just say how cold it was last night and leave it at theat.........not down to you to suggest what rugs they wear......
 
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Personally i wouldnt as its there horses, nothing to do with me. There is someone on my yard similar, her horse was out last night in rain sheet, fully clipped - it didnt even have a neck bit on the sheet
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I dont see it as my place to say anything, as i hate interferring with others, i just get on with my own thing at the yard.

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Totally agree with you there P_G!
 
I feed Mae before shes worked but always leave her at least an hour before i ride her.

My winter woolies are out with l/w rugs on, the finer two have an under rug and m/w turnout rug on, but we are near mountains and close to the sea so its colder here
 
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My farrier recons there is one bitch, one thief and someone with questionable stable management on every yard!!!!

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May I copy/paste /enlarge this for our yard LOL
 
I would grumble and moan about their stupidity, but I wouldn't say anything to them. I can't stand people interfering in my horse's care, so its hardly fair that I go butting in in theirs.
 
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I would grumble and moan

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lol Thats kinda what i'm doing here!
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Just feel rather sorry for their horses and think they must be freeeeeeeezin!
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Georgie is fully clipped and out still at the moment - he's in a medium weight with high neck and is toasty warm. Whats so awful about that?

I dont see a problem with it, so long as he has plenty to eat and has plenty or rug keeping him warm then i see no issue.
 
OK, regardless of the theoretical wrongs and rights of this situation. How did the horses look this am? Munching and content? Or otherwise?
 
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OK, regardless of the theoretical wrongs and rights of this situation. How did the horses look this am? Munching and content? Or otherwise?

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I wouldn't know as i'm never there in the mornings!
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Will ask B when i see him as he sorts ours in the mornings as he lives there, i live 10miles away so its easier for me to do them just in the evenings.
 
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