Clipping legs

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ClassicG&T

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I was wandering if anyone clips legs in the winter?
I've got a TB/Welsh cob but in winter his legs get very thick hair and hot under his boots and wraps and I can't afford top of the range air cooling boots just for general hacking/schooling

Think I should clip his legs? He doesn't get mud fever as far as I know (he didn't last winter anyways). His legs are getting sweaty under his boots already and it's only September!
 
A friend has a welsh cob and she has clipped most of his legs and down the front of the cannon and fetlock and left the feathers on to protect his heels, she did this now so that by the time the winter took hold he would have some hair but a thinner layer than normal

Pony looks a bit odd right now though!
 
Far easier with clipped legs. For starters you can see what is going on and deal with any problems. If we have a wet winter you could use cow salve or mud boots on him if you needed to.
 
I am reluctantly clipping my Draft mare's bountiful feather off. She gets very scabby legs, we've done all sorts to stop it but it seems that it is as a response to getting too hot under all the hair. She has had bare legs all summer and we are going to go through winter naked as well. I'm hoping to clear it all up once and for all and then grow her hair back in next summer, with some kind of oil to protect her skin.
 
I clip Alfs legs out - and have hit upon a brilliant cheat for those with white legs. If you use trimmers for the top bit, and clip along the edge of the white bits, the legs don't have the weird "clipped up to the knee" look.
 
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