Do warmbloods grow even a bit of a winter coat?

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I have not owned one before and my yearling practically still has her summer coat, i have been rugging her for quite a while as she was getting cold. My Anglo arab has been rugged too but his coat is getting thicker and my section a is very furry but she has no signs of any thicker fur coming!
 
my WB does, shes already had her first clip 2 weeks ago. Saying that though when she was a yearling she didnt grow much of a winter coat so she had to be well rugged. Fingers crossed it comes through.
 
The warmblood in the next door stable to me is the wooliest horse I know - he's fully clipped all the year round
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Mine doesn't!!! His hair seems to go a little bit thicker but nothing that could be remotely described as woolly!

I thought I had been too soft in previous year and rugged him too much, but this year I've been mean (
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Mine doesn't!!! His hair seems to go a little bit thicker but nothing that could be remotely described as woolly!

I thought I had been too soft in previous year and rugged him too much, but this year I've been mean (
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) and still nothing. He's now in a LW during the day and a MW at night.

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Exact ditto only today i have put a MW turnout on him.
 
My WB is soooooo wooly already and last year the heavy duty clipper struggled with his coat! He is crossed with ID tho!!
 
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I wonder why some get a winter coat and some don't?? Strange!!!
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Because WBs are originally heavy horse x TB (or similar) just depends who's genes are prominant in a particular horse. So some get wooly others don't
 
Mine didn't grow much of winter coat until the year he was injured so wasn't clipped until December, then it grew and grew. Each year it's got a little thicker/heavier. This year due to yet another injury he hasn't been clipped yet and he's very fluffy. Although he's stabled I haven't bothered rugging him up yet as he's plenty warm enough with his fluffy wool. His summer coat on the other hand is pretty non-existant he's just bay/gingery skin LOL
 
My KWPN is quite hairy for the fist time in nearly 4 years ive owned him. However ive only just started putting a LW rug on him as he's been far to warm in anything else.

So im clipping this w-end joy of joy's.
 
Yip! My DWB is a woolly mammoth! He is in dire need of a full clip already despite other horses on the yard not being very hairy at all. He will get everything off except his legs as he is out all day and i like them to be warm lol
 
I've got a 2 year-old AngloArab x WB and thus far she hasn't ever had much winter coat and what she does grow is very thin and not at all waterproof so I have to rug her. I try and leave it as long as possible before doing so in an effort to make her grow a winter coat (they live out). She only has a lighweight one though, even during last January's big freeze and February's snow, but she seemed fine with a LW.
 
My ISH x Han is the wooliest horse I know! It's worse now she's older, but she's always been that way. And the funny thing is, she isn't a horse that feels the cold.

My Belgium WB hardly grows any coat, and in past winters I've kept her in regular work without even clipping her.
 
Nope, my dutch warmblood has a coat like a moleskin in the winter, hardly any thickness too it, allthough if worked hard she does sweat up. Hardly worth clipping but might just do a bib.
 
Mine has been rugged for about 2 weeks now (she's out 24/7) and she is starting to get some thicker hair on her neck.

Last year she never got that woolly but it was enough to clip her.
 
The Dizzy one (DW) looks like a teddy bear
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, albeit a blonde, long-legged teddy bear
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. Out 24/7, no rugs as yet. Can't ride 'till near the end of November, so probably won't bother clipping/rugging 'till then.
 
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