Don't think I can ride any more....

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... at least not until my boy's winter coat has come out! He's looking decidedly moth-eaten at the moment and I'm ashamed to have him out and about where people can see him :o

Anyone else ashamed at the mo???

(PS I do have pics if anyone is interested)
 
I have to admit I've had one or two days in the winter where I haven't left the yard as just can't face taking the lovely cob out with poo-coloured white bits!

It's one thing on the yard to look away from any stains that aren't under tack, but I can't face going out in public like it!

I've given up caring about the moulting tho - I've just accepted that there will be little snow-like flurries wherever we go or have been! :rolleyes:
 
My horse is the same and I am also totally ashamed, although he is moulting it is taking ages, such a shame as his summer coat is a gorgeous conker colour. He had a trace clip and there is still a clear line, every day I use the rubber curry comb and get loads of hair out, but it never stops! He's a beautiful horse but looks like a scruffy, dusty mess at the moment!
 
My horse is bald if it makes you feel any better. He was last clipped in February and just hasn't grown any coat whatsoever since despite being a tb living out!!! It's not a good look as he still has some of his wool on his legs. He looks a bit like one of the hairless dogs..........
 
One of mine is decidedly moth eaten at the moment too. Fortunatey he's only 3 so don't have to suffer any embarassment at all, other than folk seeing him over the hedge as they hack past!
 
I have a strawberry roan, who goes very grey with his winter coat. He was clipped ages ago, when he was a similar colour all over, but since the spring has come, his body and lower legs have gone a lovely chestnutty colour, but at the top of each leg, he is white! When I drive past the field, he looks like he has leg warmers on.

This was taken yesterday, and with lots of grooming to get the hair out, they are slowly darkening up a bit. 2 weeks ago, I needed sun glasses to take away the glare.:D

Picture really doesn't do it justice.

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Mine too! Clipped at the end of Jan and summer coat only just coming through - only he's a woolly mammoth-esq cob so really noticeable :o

PICS ARE REQUIRED!!!
 
Mine has lost the fluff on her legs but was fully clipped in Feb bar half a head, therefore she is bald with summer coat but a HUGE fluffy head. Looks ridiculous and I'm trying to sell her! Keep debating clipping the front of her head but can't decide if that will look worse?
 
I am comforted reading this! My very fine-haired thoroughbred is really suffering at the moment. The front third looks great, the middle looks all patchy, threadbare and scurfy and the back third is fine again. It's been going on so long now though, that I have been starting to worry... looking for other reasons i.e. I have done worm tests, checked for mites / lice etc. How much longer is this going to go on?! I usually pride myself on how good he looks... I feel so sorry for him!
 
Lovin the white legs. My tb is looking dreadful. Not losing his coat at all. Actually considering clipping him this weekend to even out his clipoed/ unclipped bits.
 
It has been a terrible winter - and despite best hay, good food etc. mine look skinny. Went on a pleasure ride on the Quantock Hills on Sunday - where there was a choice of 8 miles or a 10 mile route - we got to that point - the steward said the 10 mile route involves a very steep hill - are your horses fit enough (she asked)? She then looked at them, and said they looked fit (I think she meant lean.....) but they coped very well up what was a very, very steep hill, and my TB who is only ridden once a week, coped the best - something to be said for lean rather than fat!! Somehow the old boy still retains his fitness from when he was a racehorse - but then he is a total legend!
 
Glad it's not just mine!

He was fully clipped out in mid Dec and you can still clearly see his clip marks. His coat all over his belly and quarters is sort of like a grown out winter coat, all wiry and weird. Only his neck has changed to his summer coat!
 
Glad its not just us with a 2-tone pone! I was going to start a thread about it but no need now :D The more hair we get out the more there is! Trying several shedding tools, and developing arm muscles sweeping up afterwards :p At least our dark bay (winter coat) and ginger (clipped/summer coat) boy enjoys the extra long grooming sessions :D
 
I take a shedding blade to Chicos coat nearly everyday but it just keep coming! I leave the yard every day covered in white hair.

At least with him being white he doesnt get the moth-eaten look but oes make the hair he sheds all over the place very noticable :o

Next year, I think I may clip......
 
I had to have a good plucking session last week with the TB, it was coming out in lumps, she's evening out now thankfully!
 
My new boy is looking VERY moth eaten, with a really patchy neck, no amount of grooming seems to get rid of the stuuborn remaining winter coat! Glad others are the same, I was starting to wonder if it was him!
 
Mine's looking decidedly odd at the moment, winter coat is pretty much gone from his neck and bum - oddly since that's usually the last to go on him - but he's still got it down his sides so he's looking a bit fluffy barrel with legs atm :rolleyes: Only he's not fat ;)
 
OK.... I'm going to swallow my embarrassment and reveal all :o He's lost his really long "outer" bay winter coat and now he's down to the black "under-fluff" which seems to be coming out in patches... :o:o:o



Even his FACE hasn't escaped...



Just to prove he CAN look normal.... this is what he'll be like in a few weeks!!!

 
I was beginning to wonder if my cob had developed cushings as he still had most of his coat, he has long cat hairs all over him as well, looks like a yak. I have also (whispers)reported to cutting his mane, as it is so thick . I expect we will just get rid of coat in time for winter one to start growing !
 
My two look fab, both have completely lost their winter coats, even my youngster who was out unclipped, mainly unrugged over the winter. Both are way ahead of the rest of the yard in the summer coats stakes. I wouldn't be putting it down to my grooming either. I'm wondering if it could be related to them being fed total eclipse. Could the linseed/ seaweed or brewers yeast be helping?
 
My cob has a beautiful sleek coat, looks super smart with her newly hogged mane, clipped legs and shorter tail, she's also mega white still after her bath last week despite all the rain and living out 24/7 and looks perfect weight wise:D:D

However my 3yr old, :(
Scruffy, moth-eaten and ribby :( he is meant to be black but looks more dusty grey at the moment , still has a fair bit of fluff to shift!


I used to find patches of white hair all over the field where the cob had obviously been rolling - last spring i found a nest which must have blown out the tree and it was made with my cob's fluff and bits of leaves/twigs, looked one cosy nest! :D
 
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