Anyone elses horses coat not coming through so well?

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Clipped B fully this year and his last clip was in December (I think). Anyway his coat has grown back all wirey
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like long "cat hairs" scattered about, it looks very unsightly. Is this normal??

I am hoping that his summer coat will come through soon, he has been out during the day without a rug so he gets the sun on his back and is rugged up at night. He is on a balanced feed and good grass.

Just never expreienced anything like this before
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any views on the situation appreciated
 
Seems to have happened to quite a few people this time, my boy did most of his malting about a month ago but he was unfeasibly hairy! That was a lady who made a post earlier about whether or not to clip again so I don't think you're alone and I don't think it is anything to worry about
 
My big lad is the same.He still has quite prominent clip lines although he was done in early december.He has long coarse hairs aswell.They seem to be in between coats but the summer coats are not coming through very well.
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My mare's still got loads of winter coat left too. She started moulting in January and I thought she'd be bald by mid at the rate it was falling out but she's slowed right down now and still looks very hairy with no sign of her real summer coat
 
How very odd! My boy was fully clipped this year, last clip in February, and he got the wiry 'cat' hairs, too! They have gone now, but his coat isn't his usual summer coat, it's much longer and thicker than it usually is. I wonder what they know that we don't ....
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I wonder if that really cold snap we had has 'confused' the coats.

Star was part clipped in January and that bit is a lovely smoorh shiney black summer coat. The winter coat looks like a coconut door mat and is the same brown colour. Not an attractive look. It's not really budging either.
 
My Ron was clipped in december too, and he still looks like it was done a fortnight ago! he has grown a goatee beard and a few cat hairs but that's it!

am sorely tempted to clip him out again if its going to be a hot summer!
 
My girl is the opposite - her coat has come through better than ever this year! She was last clipped in early December, and I actually posted in around Feb time saying how she hadnt outgrown her clip at all. Well, in the last two weeks, her summer coat has just suddenly appeared; she's almost totally outgrown her clip now (can just faintly see the line on her hindlegs). Everyone keeps commenting on how lovely her coat looks - she's by far the most sleek and shiny on the yard at the moment! Very strange
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ETS the pics in my sig show how well hers has come through - I've compared them with the same time from previous years, and she's definitely further forward now!
 
God my mare's losing her winter (very fine) coat - she's full TB and almost a flame coloured chestnut but her summer coat is either so fine as to be invisible or not coming through at all - so she has huge bald patches. Had skin and bloods done this week so will post with any news!!!
 
Similar situation here. My mare wasn't clipped during the winter as she doesn't grow much of a coat but all through he winter she was sleek and shinny. She started moulting a few weeks ago and her skin is now dry and flakey and her coat is dull. I have just started to add some vegetable oil to her feed and turn her out naked during the day for a good roll and some welcome sun on her back. Hopefully she will improve quite quickly.
 
My boy always seems to get this on his neck when he sheds, not really sure why, I'm thinking it could be because he has connemara in him? :S But anyways, I started giving him corn oil as his coat was a bit patchy when he moulted and it's worked wonders. I'm not really sure if it's helped the cat hairs, but it's definately improved his coat in general so it's not as noticeable, so he has it all year round now.
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Yes - Sunny not looking as good as he did this time last year. Dropped a bit of condition and his coat is still scratty and dull. It IS the end of winter and he's 23 so I'm not worried: I sort of expect every winter to start taking it's toll now. I've just received a free trial pack of Baileys Lo Cal - I wasn't sure Sunny would eat it so didn't want to buy a whole bag! He's scoffed both feeds with it in so I'm getting a bag tomorrow - zero calories in it, just packed full of vits and mins, pre and pro biotics, yea sac, you name it. Hope it will help him a little
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Next January start your horse on some oil. I use a mug of linsead meal per day. Or you could simply add some super market veg oil. I've found this has really helped my horses molt out this yeat. All mine were completely into their summer coats in the middle of March. And none except the mare were clipped.
 
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