Clipping and rugs

[SilverSkye]

Right i am normally dead decisive but for some reason i am pondering this year!
Skye is out at night and in through the day ( and will be hopefully till just before bonfire night when she will swap and come in overnight!) at present she is naked 24/7 excluding a few rainy nights where i have taken pity on her and put her rain sheet on.
Am going to blanket clip skye on Wednesday next week will keep it very low and leave a big blanket on, plan is to put W/b full neck M/W (220g) rug on overnight and then a light weight stable rug (100g) through the day while she is in or if it is really warm just a sheet as her stable is pretty sheltered ( american barn set up)
Does this sound about right? Dont normally clip this early tend to wait till she is in, but have been autumn hunting and she is getting in a right sticky mess so the hair has got to go!

 

[ester]

I did a blanket clip on frank last weekend and he is out 24/7. Basically atm he has a similar coat to the anglo who hasn't started changing yet.

He is having lightweight (no fill) waterproof on most nights but fly rug on in the day.

He is a chunky boy though and has his own layers to stay warm

In the day in the stable I def wouldn't be worrying yet. he will get a mw on out at night when it cools a bit more.

 

[TicTac]

The weather is still very mild at the moment and the horses coats are still growing/changing. Personally I think a medium weight rug will be too warm for your horse even though you are going to clip him. In 2/3 weeks the clip will need doing again anyway. I would put a lightweight rug on at night untill the temperature really drops. and leave naked or fly rugged up during the day, unless wet windy or cold etc.

My m/w rugs don't come out untill it goes below 10 degrees during the day.

 

[3Beasties]

I've just given my Section A a hunter clip and she is out in a 100g turnout which she will live in till the weather changes.