for those with no stable/shelter

Dont mind at all. They have a massive shelter and prefer to stand outside! They are rugged up tho in winter and really wet days in summer.
 
Easily! I don't start rugging until later than stabled horses to allow his coat to have started becoming all furry to keep him warm. He never wears more than a medium weight or he gets too hot and starts sweating. I also don't brush him much, a quick flick over where the saddle and bridle go for riding, and thats it. It allows as much of the natural greases to stay in his coat as possible, to keep him waterproof. He does have natural shelter (trees and hedges) but that isn't where the grass lives, and well, where the grass lives, there Fella will be also.
 
WB filly is rugged in the winter but the natives have to get on with it. It's a bit of a pain sometimes though, not having a stable/shelter. I had the WB filly entered for New Forest Show yesterday but as it p*ssed down with rain all day Monday, there was no way I could get her looking like anything so she didn't go (and after I'd gone to a great deal of trouble sorting out transport
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Mine lives out all year and in the winter he does have a field shelter but they hardly ever use it - even when it was -12!

He is chaser clipped and last year due to the big freeze had a HW weight on but would be fine with a MW in a normal winter.

I would be more concerned about really hot weather and not having any shade rather than cold and rain. But then my pony is a native and designed to be able to withstand british winters.
 
I have shelters in all the fields, only the babies choose to use them. The other horses prefer the windbreak even in blizzards and ice storms. I have 10 stables in the barn, never use them in winter, unless the Farrier/Vet is coming.

Most are in MW rugs, old arab broody is double rugged, foals - depends how they go on, mainly I don't rug them. Apart from the arab they'd cope through winter unrugged, but as someone said on here once "Why feed the weather?"

Temps average -20C at night for three months or so, too cold for mud, bliss
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I have invested in a very good quality brand of rugs and have several in different weights and with detachable neck covers. He stays warm and dry (ok, so his ears and face get wet but he drops his head down and the rain drips off), hasnt (touch wood) dropped weight through the winters I have had him which is 3 so far and stays happy and healthy. He never stands by the gate to come in or looks sorry for himself so I am happy he is happy.
 
My boy (native) does not use his shelter at all in winter...but is in it a lot in the summer to get away from the flies. He lived out quite happily in lashing wind, rain, sleet and snow in a mw rug and never ventured in his shelter. Even when we had so much snow the land was completely covered, he was out in it digging around for grass and playing.
 
my 20yr old t/b stops out 24/7/352 days a year she has a full neck medium rug on in winter has a shelter but never uses it!
 
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