Clipping a cob??

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This has prob been asked before but what sort of clip would you do on a cob, that lives out 24/7 and will be hacking over winter?

A) Neck and belly trace
B) Neck and belly plus top of front legs trace
C) Irish clip
D) Low trace
E) High trace

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If you don't want to rug him, I would just do the neck and belly. If you are going to use rugs then there is no reason why you can't do a trace clip.
 
If your horse is living out I would take off the minimum possible if anything at all.What sort of rugs does the horse wear in the Winter as this will also play a part in how much you clip?
 
I have a lightweight cob that's in only medium work over the winter (exercise 5 days a week but only schooling or hacking, very limited competing and then only low level dressage) but I full clip him out as like yours he gets very sweaty. Yesterday after 40mins of hacking in walk he had a sweat (despite being very fit).

I would have thought if you were only going to give your boy a trace clip he certainly wouldn't need a heavy weight turnout on - he's a cob and will be pretty hardy! I put a heavy weight rug on mine but only because he has a full clip. If he had a blanket/trace clip then I would probably only put on a medium weight rug.
 
Personally I think the clip should be determined by the amount of sweat-inducing work they will be doing??

I would rather see a horse that does a lot of work clipped out and well rugged than being left hairy. IMO a hairy horse will be more sweaty (and so damp) after work, which more cruel than being clipped.

I also find it curious when people don't take enough off to stop the horse getting sweaty, surely it undermines the whole point of clipping?
 
I wouldn't use a heavyweight rug either. My shetland has a very high neck and belly clip and he lives out with no rugs. He is very fat and very woolly and he gets very hot at this time of year, just standing in the field. My vet told me to clip even more off in order to make him metabolise some of the fat - I am not sure this works, but he doesn't get smelly and sweaty.
 
We only have Natives and while we dont have any clipped living out - Mine are wimps!! I have friends who have their Dales and Highland ponies fully clipped and out 24/7 in a good rug. There ponies have medium weights full necks on and do very well on it too. They show and compete through the winter on this regime...and they are based in the North of England and Scotland so does get cold.

If you dont want him to have a full clip a chaser clip would be a good taking off all his front. If he is sweating a lot he will be a lot more comfortable with less hair etc
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Take it he the cob in your photo - very smart boy!
 
If my boy was out I would probably chaser as his neck is the worst bit.

I blanket normally but he is stabled at night.
 
I was thinking blanket, after all the post. He may be a cob but I've never met anytjing so wimppy in all my live. When I got him 3 months ago he got a cold from living out!!!!!!!!!!

Marymary yeah thats my cob, thanks.
 
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