Anyone else leave their horses naked last night?

Seren is un-rugged and living out at night happily, I was shocked at a near by yard shoving rugs on as its dry, before any one thinks each horse to their own and all that, I know the horses in question and they did not need rugging last night, oh well.....
 
joe had a thin rug due to his recent virus and the fact we are trying to get weight on him before winter sets in but ralph was naked as the day he was born :D and will be until he is clipped
 
Well I know I didn't leave her naked but when I got there this morning she was very much without her rug :confused: so off I trot to locate said rug which is in a neat pile in the corner fully fastened up front middle and leg straps and not even a single rip anywhere lol Houdini anyone
 
Mine is only out a couple of nights a week at the moment (but out every day) and he is naked and will remain so until about mid November when he will get a small clip. He's a hairy native...and I like him to be as nature intended for as long as possible :D
 
I understand some horses are finer types and have to be managed a accordingly.

Thankfully, Archie is quite hardy and as he lives out 24/7/365 I am trying to harden him to the long winter ahead of him. His summer coat is shedding nicely and he is definitely showing the start of his winter coat. It is nice and greasy/waxy underneath so nature is doing its job and in the event he does get caught out and I can't get to him he will be completely waterproof.

I have, however, got all his rugs prepared so when I do start rugging hopefully I have one for all eventualities.
 
One of my boys was turned out and he had a lightweight on, but my other boy was stabled and he was naked. Warm as toast too, even though it was 4 degrees when I arrived at the yard at 7.30 .......
 
Mine has been out without a rug but last night I did put her light weight on (it's off tonight!). It got down to 2 degrees on thursday night at our yard and down to -1 degrees last night so i'm glad I put it on even if she is a little on the large side and a wooly bear at minus numbers even I can't leave a rug off her.
 
nooooooooooooooooooooo way hose!
mine are in 280gm combo's and snuggy hoods in the day (one full clipped and one still in perfect summer coat), and then 450gm combo's and leg wraps at night when in.

even the shetland is in a 280gm combo day and night(and more or less still in summer coat).

its flipping freezing! am full cliiping the clipped one again tomorrow and will add a thin fleece under day and night rug after that.
 
I'm putting my girl in at night at the moment but only to get her into some sort of routine after the move. She's in the stable without a rug on though (she does have a lovely thick bed of straw to snuggle in if she wants to - and has on occassion!) but I'm sure she would be fine out at night without one too. My ex-YO and ex-riding instructor was a great believer in letting horses be as natural as possible and always used to raise her eyebrows at me if I started pampering Fleur too much.
 
Its been hideously cold in Aberdeen, gales and rain, so no. But to be fair, we have a 24yo, and 28 yo, and a young arab who gets a gazillion allergies, so they all had rugs of some sort on, but lots of horses up here with no rugs on yet. You have to rug if you want to keep weight on an oldie who loses weight quickly, but mine live out 24/7, oldies or not! We've got a long winter ahead, so if people are rugging too early, the horses won't get the good of the heavy rugs when they need them! My 28yo never wore a rug at all until he was 16. Good for all you people letting horses use their coats to keep warm.......it is after all, what they were designed for.....fur coats!!
 
If we start rugging now how on earth are they going to cope when the weather actually gets cold? How many extra rugs can you possible put on your horse each time the temp drops? It gets to the point they can move...
 
My horse is very much in the minority on my yard because he is not wearing a rug of any kind. When it was really horrid the other night I took pity on him and put a LW turnout on for the night.... and he was dripping with sweat in the morning!

He'll be staying naked till the clippers come out I think!
 
Nope, tucked up in a cosy stable with a deep straw bed, a big hay net and a rug to make him as snug as a bug.
A good night sleep for me not having to worry about him being out in the cold wind and rain and a happy horse that i can ride and do things with in the morning, without being soaking wet or covered in mud...win, win.
 
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