Chesnut Tb questions..

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I have heard alot about spurs/boots rubbing at a horses sides and if it's a chesnut the hair wears away is this true?
Also i was hacking the other day and i accidentally caught up with this woman having a plod on her old cob and she was saying how nice he looks even if he is a chesnut tb! I had no idea what she meant but i wasnt about to ask.
He has 2white socks on his hind.. does this change his chances in showing or anything ?
Anything on chesnut tb's please post haha x
 
My Chestnut TB does have a very fine, silky coat but he doesn't rub much and not at all where my legs go. My mums bay TB is much worse for getting rub marks where his reins, saddle, rugs go ect.
Down the front of his cannon bones at the back are very sensitive skinned. I very rarely put back boots on as they make him sore and scabby. He only wears back boots for XC and all other times he wears fetlock boots.
I don't think socks would affect his showing at all?! Then again I don't know much about showing :p. As for the lady with the cob, well horses for courses and all that but I know i'd rather my chestnut TB any day over any other horse ;).
 
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Here's mine, he doesn't suffer with any hair wearing away or rub rugs or anything really..

But as Firewall says, my mum also has a bay tb & she suffers with rug rubs on her withere..
 
I have recently got a chestnut tb mare and finding she very sensitive skinned with fronts of cannon bones and under saddle worst for hair rubbing. Still playing a round with boots and numnahs to find the right ones for her.
 
Have to add is not the saddle rubbing as fit very well and we use a prolite if any changes in condition. Find it is the edges of saddlecloths that rub so am going to try sheepskin to see if softer. Try and leave boots off as much as possible as can irritate the legs especially the white one
 
used to have a chestnut TB a few years ago - he was very sensitive/high risk to things like mud fever or insect bites, and he got rubbed by his rugs more easily that other horses
 
I have a very fine haired chestnut (with a big dose of TB) and he isn't especially prone to rug rubs, or generally being sensitive skinned. He does have the glossiest coat I've ever known though!
 
My chestnut thoroughbred is very thin skinned.

He does get rubs from my leg but only really during coat changes.

He is sensitive to flies and comes out in lumps but they seem to love him, he also gets mud fever. Other than that he's great :D
 
HorseMad. said:
I have heard alot about spurs/boots rubbing at a horses sides and if it's a chesnut the hair wears away is this true?
Also i was hacking the other day and i accidentally caught up with this woman having a plod on her old cob and she was saying how nice he looks even if he is a chesnut tb! I had no idea what she meant but i wasnt about to ask.
He has 2white socks on his hind.. does this change his chances in showing or anything ?
Anything on chesnut tb's please post haha x
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Never heard that one, and can't understand why. your horse is a horse with its individual needs, colour is - to my mind- immaterial.

I have a chestnut, TB mare with 4 white socks dispite the old rhyme

One white- buy him,
Two whites- try him,
Three white feet, look well about him,
Four white feet, you can do without him.

Chestnut mare, beware!

never had a issue with sensitivity because she was a chestnut
 
I have a chestnut TB.

He doesn't get rubs, doesn't get mud fever, only has front shoes and is a lot more hardy than a friends Welsh Pony... go figure? lol

He is bothered by flies more so than my other horse, but I wouldn't necessarily put that down to him being a chestnut... I have seen bay's get pretty worked up over them too!
 
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