Clipping & Rugging question

[tubby1]

I have just had my very sweaty horse clipped with a high trace. I have turned her out tonight with a lightweight with no neck. My Y/O has advised that she needs a rug with a neck. Should she have a MW or a lightweight on coz it is still really mild. & I don't want to over rug or under rug her.

 

[zaminda]

My 2 are fully clipped, and have MW with no neck rugs on. If I had necks for my lightweights, I'd have been tempted to put them out in those so I would say with just a high trace, I'd definitely have gone lightweight!!

 

[be positive]

If she is warm enough there is no reason to put a rug with a neck on her, she may need one later but for now she should be fine..

 

[tubby1]

Thanks that what I thought , I will try to get a lightweight with a neck tomorrow.

 

[twiggy2]

I would put LW no neck on as you have done

mine is due to have a hunter clip this week and if the weather does not change will be out in a MW no neck

 

[tubby1]

I was told putting a rug with a neck on would slow down the hair regrowth

 

[twiggy2]

I was told putting a rug with a neck on would slow down the hair regrowth

it might in some horses but it does that because they are too hot,

 

[ofcourseyoucan]

hair regrowth is governed by daylight hours not amount of rugs unless temps are very cold (-) and horse is cold. a rain sheet will be fine til temps are consistently below 8 degrees.

 

[Abbeygale]

I have only clipped the pony so far this year (but she is a very sensitive / pathetic pony) - but she is fully clipped. I can't speak for the weather where you are, but it has been incredibly mild with us, and so she has only had a LW rug on at all. This afternoon she was so hot underneath it she had it taken off till the sun went down.

Over-rugging will not slow down hair regrowth. Over-rugging will however make your horse more prone to sweating up (and then cooling down with the inside of the rug damp, creating a chill), getting cast (my friends horse used to get cast every single time he was too warm!) or colic (rolling because they're too hot, and so causing a twisted gut)

I would always aim towards the less is more, especially in the mild weather we have been having.