Encouraging summer coat to grow

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aldato_daz

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Morning everyone!

I am hoping to start showing my ex racehorse now in the upcoming months. I clipped her in January, all off apart from legs.

She is very well fed, and well rugged, exercised regularly too. Calm and condition from Allen and paige, alfalfa, linseed oil and good quality haylage. I will be putting her on baileys outshine today. I did have problems trying to get weight on her bit now that shes getting turnout on grass I'm hopeful that she'll start to pick up more.

However, she still looks like I have only just clipped her! Her coat is soft and shiny but surely she should have a lot more hair!

Does anybody have any advice on encouraging her summer coat to come through? I can't show her looking like she's just been clipped! :/

Thanks in advance!
 
I have heard quite a few similar comments this year, there is a thread on another forum along the same lines with quite a few saying the same thing. I'm in the same boat - my pony was clipped mid Jan, went to a show early March looking freshly clipped and doesn't look a great deal better even now!

I've just put my pony on Cuppra after reading good reviews about its effect on the emerging summer coat and the rate of growth - hopefully that will have some effect!
 
stop rugging up so much to encourage the summer coat to grow, they need the sun on their backs to help it along as well as not being kept too hot. my mare is the only one at a yard of 40+ with a full summer coat and she was clipped in sept/october and rugged up well to stop a winter coat growing again but rugs were taken off about 8 weeks ago, she has a rain sheet if rain is heavy and persistent.
 
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