Clipping

[Stenners]

Has anyone started clipping yet? My mare has turned into a wooly mammoth since the weekend and get sweaty just walking around the block!

 

[mini_b]

Mine got clipped in summer (not a hairy cob or native) and will be getting clipped imminently. Waiting for my blades to come back!

 

[Polos Mum]

Yep, mine had an irish clip 2 weeks ago, it's still really warm so even in modest work he was getting really sweaty

His summer coat is brown and winter coat cream so it's really obvious when it comes through!

 

[ILuvCowparsely]

Has anyone started clipping yet? My mare has turned into a wooly mammoth since the weekend and get sweaty just walking around the block!

No chance me clipping till at Least October - and then maybe November depending on fur. I will not clip before October November, they still have their summer coats

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

I refuse point blank to clip before 1st October unless in extreme circumstances!

 

[Barton Bounty]

October for me too

 

[MuddyMonster]

Yes, I have. Need to get my blades resharpened for round 2 in a few weeks ?

 

[Lady Jane]

Full clip ex legs 3 weeks ago, will clip again soon and probably monthly till Feb. Hairy conniexID, decided I just can't cope with sweat and coat. Never had a hairy horse before so this is new to me. Must change profile pic....he is retired (at 8!!) and never hairy - god forbid it would be below him!

 

[Lady Jane]

Avatar now shows the hairy golden boy

 

[Goldenstar]

We have to clip ours all year round .

 

[whizzer]

Whole lot off last weekend,Connie cross,I just can't bear sweaty,hairy horses! Will be done at least monthly until next spring,I stop taking legs off November to March.

 

[DabDab]

I think I'm going to admit defeat with the Connemara and clip her this weekend. She is already very hairy and it's still warm

 

[Starzaan]

If they need clipping, they get clipped. It is a myth that clipping while still in a summer coat damages the coat.
This time last year my two had been clipped twice, and I had about six liveries who were the same.
As it stands, after the summer we’ve had, they don’t need it yet, but I imagine I’ll do my old boy by the end of this month. I take the lot off my own - legs and all, and liveries get whatever is appropriate to their workload and sweatiness!

 

[RHM]

I relented and fully clipped last week. I normally try and hold out to limit the amount of times I have to do it. But, there was no getting away with it this year!

 

[Pippity]

I took off neck, shoulders and belly a few weeks ago, and I'll be doing a full clip once I get round to charging my clippers and brushing the horse. And once my dislocated shoulder is sufficiently healed.

 

[Nasicus]

Clippers and blades are off for servicing and sharpening, but once they're back I'll at least be taking bellies and necks off. Or might try and locate my Liveryman Elements and do it sooner.

 

[Green Bean]

Mine is starting to shed short hairs but her coat is still fine. I tend to only clip in November / December when she gets properly hairy

 

[Bernster]

Coat def starting to come through, with the darker nights drawing in. Has reminded me to get going with clipper training but I suspect Bertie will need sedation again this year so I’ll leave it as late as I can but keeping him comfortable still.

 

[Annagain]

**sticks fingers in ears, goes 'la la la la la' and backs out of conversation**

It is still summer, will be for many months to come and winter is not, I repeat not in the air. I'm not wearing a jumper in the house for the first time in months today. Really, I'm not.

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

**sticks fingers in ears, goes 'la la la la la' and backs out of conversation**

It is still summer, will be for many months to come and winter is not, I repeat not in the air. I'm not waring a jumper in the house for the first time in months today. Really, I'm not.

This is a bit how I feel as well ?

 

[Zoeypxo]

Avoiding it till october as ill have 20 to clip

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

Avoiding it till october as ill have 20 to clip

Is that all?! ?

I actually quite enjoy clipping. People tend to leave me alone as many have had their heads bitten off in the past *cough*one person turned the switch off at the wall and all hell broke loose... *cough* but mostly by the 3rd or 4th clip of the day I can't hear anything anyway and by day 4 I get bad tinnitus.

I would really like a microchip inserted in my brain that catches all of the random thoughts I have whilst clipping. I go off into weird and wonderful worlds!

 

[Stenners]

I'm glad I'm not the only one with a hairy horse! Last weekend she had a summer coat and in the space of a week she is sooo wooly!! Took her for a canter on Saturday and she was sooooo sweaty all over my friend couldn't' believe how hairy she had got! I think I'm going to have to take the lot off this weekend!

 

[Nasicus]

The sheer amount of hair that came off the hairy cob yesterday is nudging me towards finding the trimmers...

 

[smolmaus]

Sadie has gone from sleek to fluffy in the last week so will probably be back to Wooly Mammoth any day now. She is so soft and plush at this stage, like a baby rabbit ?

A friend has offered to try and clip her but as far as we know she's never been done before so will have to see what we are able to get off her!

The decision on whether to hog the scruffy sweet itch mane and start over next year is really looming over me now ?

 

[Nasicus]

The decision on whether to hog the scruffy sweet itch mane and start over next year is really looming over me now ?

It soon grows back, I had to take the mane off mine in November last year, and she's got about 6-7inches now.

 

[ponynutz]

Mine's malting so the time is coming very soon.
I normally leave it until October.

 

[NeverSurrender]

Shetland has had an Irish clip already due to sweating whilst working, once he's coming in overnight for winter (aiming for end of September!) He will have a full body off but legs and head on type clip.

 

[smolmaus]

It soon grows back, I had to take the mane off mine in November last year, and she's got about 6-7inches now.

I know, she arrived last October with about an inch of bog brush and the majority of it now is a good 6 inches of lovely thick mane so we can try again next year. Just hard to admit defeat, we were doing so well until that bloody heatwave ?

 

[Nasicus]

I know, she arrived last October with about an inch of bog brush and the majority of it now is a good 6 inches of lovely thick mane so we can try again next year. Just hard to admit defeat, we were doing so well until that bloody heatwave ?

Funny you say that, the one I mentioned arrived with the forelock completely gone and the mane about 1inch of bogbrush haha! I was gutted when I had to cut it off just shy of a year later, but same as you, we were doing so well until we weren't! So far we've been okay though, sweet itch rug and absolutely no fences, trees or branches to itch herself raw on. And the other one, when I saw her photos, had a lovely mane, and when I turned up to view she had the most awful scraggly scissored 1inch bogbrush mane. Don't get me wrong, you can totally hog a horse well with scissors, I've done it myself, but christ it was awfully done!