different types of horses...???

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hello,

right, different types of horses can live out all year round but others cant. native and x bred can but not necessarily thoroughbreds and will mostly need stabling for the most of winter.
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can irish draughts live out all year and Connemara X Thoroughbreds???... please list any others which can live out all year and anyothers which cant...???!!!

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In my opinion any type of horse can live out all year round, especially in this day and age when rug technology is so good, in fact given the choice all mine would live out but I don't have enough grazing, dammit!
 
On paper you'd say that Patches could live out all year. The reality is she drops alot of weight gets miserable and suffers with mud fever terribly if not brought in overnight and given a break from the cold, harsh winter.

It's a long standing joke that Patches is the most high maintenance hairy cob in existence.
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Technically, all breeds of horses can live out all year if the management and feeding regime suits their needs. Of course, there are always exceptions to every rule.
 
Mine can live out all year....he only gets rugged up because he likes to roll and makes sure EVERYTHING is dirty!!!! He would live out all year round with no rug and love it
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He's a French trotter x arab...he is rugged up for 3 months during the nogh and about 2 months 24/7!!
 
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hello,

right, different types of horses can live out all year round but others cant. native and x bred can but not necessarily thoroughbreds and will mostly need stabling for the most of winter.
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can irish draughts live out all year and Connemara X Thoroughbreds???... please list any others which can live out all year and anyothers which cant...???!!!

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help
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thanks xxxxx

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Fed properly and monitered just about all can live happily out all year round. you may need to rug the less hardy in the very worst of it.
Thease horses are allowed to be natural. ie no pulling trimming or washing in winter, tidying up of course (long tails)
A con x TB in good pysical condition should be absolutly fine.
 
A friend of mine breeds Arabs and also competes in endurance. All her horses live out all year round and all of them are unrugged. However, she does have a lot of land and they are all fed a forage diet which is slow release energy. On paper, my own horses should be able to live out - but in reality, I don't have enough land and they love coming into their stables at night.
 
ANY horse can live out 24/7 (unless there's some veterinary reason otherwise). Thoroughbreds are perfectly ok to live outside ALL year round. They simply need a bit more help, thick rugs, feed and shelter is all it takes! Of course an ID and a Conny x TB can live out!

Mine have all lived out all year round, including through our harsh Scottish winters! That includes breeds like natives, natives x's, anglo arabs, TB x, Warmbloods etc.! And my TB X and the warmblood have also been clipped in the winter and still been very happy out. I just make sure they're rugged up really well (in combo's), get appropriate hard feed, loads of hay and they have access to 2 large shelters / stables. None of mine lose weight either.

It really worries me so many people still think that horses NEED to be stabled....... it is FAR healthier and FAR kinder to leave them out.
 
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ANY horse can live out 24/7 (unless there's some veterinary reason otherwise). Thoroughbreds are perfectly ok to live outside ALL year round. They simply need a bit more help, thick rugs, feed and shelter is all it takes! Of course an ID and a Conny x TB can live out!

Mine have all lived out all year round, including through our harsh Scottish winters! That includes breeds like natives, natives x's, anglo arabs, TB x, Warmbloods etc.! And my TB X and the warmblood have also been clipped in the winter and still been very happy out. I just make sure they're rugged up really well (in combo's), get appropriate hard feed, loads of hay and they have access to 2 large shelters / stables. None of mine lose weight either.

It really worries me so many people still think that horses NEED to be stabled....... it is FAR healthier and FAR kinder to leave them out.

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Excellent post!
 
I have 2 Tb's, one hates being in and wintered out in a high neck m/w rug with no hassle at all - she got an evening feed and hay in the field at night and was fine... the other came in at night when the weather was awful, he's slightly more delicate and likes his stable if its really wet and windy, however that was still only a small percentage of the winter, he could live out all year if I was a bit tougher on him....

they are all different - I've known heavy cobs still be wimps in 3 rugs!!!
 
Its not really a thing you can write a definative list for - each horse should be judged individually and catered for accordingly. Yes breed type can play a part in making that decision but so can amount of work, terrain, available grazing/shelter, ruggage, concentrated feed, attitude of horse etc etc.
 
I think it's down the the individual rather than the type. Neither of mine could live out, if it rains, or is windy or cold they shiver and sulk no matter how well fed and rugged they are
 
My PBA was quite happy out last winter with a thinnish rug.
My Section A was out unrugged
My small Welsh D was out with a thin rug.
My big Welsh D can't stand the cold at all and is a right wuss. Big thick heavy combo and in at night (and day as well given half a chance).
 
I had Quarter horses, an arab/hackney x and a purebred arab living out 24/7 this winter, temperatures below 0C and snow on the ground for months, they had ad lib hay and did just fine, admittedly, I did mollycoddle them a little with MW rugs and run in sheds. It's a different kind of weather though, dry, in the UK it was soooooooo wet and downright miserable.

It seems to me that over here horses either live out, totally naturally or vanish indoors altogether for the winter. I would take account of individual needs rather than breed or type I think.
 
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