Clipping - When To Stop

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When would you stop clipping? My tb is a wooly mammoth who hasnt had a clip this year as he hasn't been in work. He will be back in in February but I can't be faffed with the moulting. He hasn't started to lose his winter coat yet but I don't want to ruin his summer coat.

I clip racehorses where holding off for a good sunner coat isnt an option so I have never clipped a show horse this late.
 
EKW said:
When would you stop clipping? My tb is a wooly mammoth who hasnt had a clip this year as he hasn't been in work. He will be back in in February but I can't be faffed with the moulting. He hasn't started to lose his winter coat yet but I don't want to ruin his summer coat.

I clip racehorses where holding off for a good sunner coat isnt an option so I have never clipped a show horse this late.
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I thought it was always best to not clip after January if you want a nice summer coat.
 
The "rule" is the end of January, but I don't use it!

In my opinion, Spring arrives a lot earlier down South than it does up North (the daffodils come out at Heathrow a month before ours do in the NW), so I don't see how a blanket rule can work for the whole country anyway..

I usually clip at the end of Feb, sometimes mid March if eventing, and have never had a "ruined" summer coat, even on the chestnut that is a different colour when clipped..
 
My horse has a blanket clip throughout the winter months. I wait until my horse's winter coat is starting to come out by the handful and when I know we're not going to have any more icy weather (as far as you can tell these things) and then I take the whole lot off. So that could be anytime from mid-February onwards.

And yes I know there's the rule that you musn't clip after the end of January blah, blah, blah but I take no notice of that and she always grows a beautiful summer coat.
 
Mine has a hunter clip and he's quite a hairy monster, seems to need doing monthly through the winter otherwise he gets too hot. I last clipped mid/late Dec IIRC but this clip isn't growing back quickly at all (which is great!) so I will probably do my last clip in Feb. I detest hair that is still moulting in June so it will all come off before that!!
 
End of February is when we stop, usually. Last clip it all comes off too, to try and avoid Reggie looking like he's trying to be a skewbald (his winter coat is very dark brown, his summer coat is alarmingly ginger). He can look a bit mangy mid-moult otherwise!
 
Normaly end of Jan or when a horse starts moulting which ever comes first.

My lad doesnt realy grow a winter coat and he has managed so far in full work with a winter coat (mind you I see very little difference from his summer coat). I was planning on clipping him out next week as I hate moulting hair but yesterday he started moulting!!!!
 
I clip a few weeks before a show. I can't wait, i can't wait! As for my ridden horse, i don't clip. He didn't really get a coat this winter, and i think it is because he was clipped last year.
 
I clip mine fairly late in the year- probably in Feb. I leave it til then as they don't really need clipping out completely and the coldest of the weather is usually done by then so I don't feel too mean! I suffer with Asthma and am quite horse allergic, I just cant handle moulting coats so I do it for my own benefit but they always have nice summer coats anyway.
 
Honey08 said:
I think that things aren't growing coats back so much this year because its been so mild.
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I'd agree with this for mine, I usually do him over the Christmas holidays last one but he hasn't grown back the early Nov one yet so we'll have to see how he goes in the next few weeks, doesn't look like we're forecast any cold weather for the next couple of weeks so I may not have to do it again at all.
 
I think it depends when your horse usually starts moulting, only you know that ;). Frank is always a late moulter so I can usually do march if we need to (though it all comes off then!)
 
Rules are made to be broken aren't they?!

I just clip when the horses need to be clipped and that can include early Autumn if they're still eventing and their coats are changing.
 
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