Full necked rugs anyone not using them?

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Only asking as I never use them all my rugs are standard necks and my mare is fully clipped. I'm currently the only one on the yard (14 horses in total) who doesn't :p
 
My haflinger mare has a trace clip but a long mane covering her neck so she is in a standard neck and her daughter is naked out 24/7.
 
Full neck all the way ..... Mark Todd heavyweight T/O which she was wearing when out in the school this morning .... Oh and she isnt called 'stud' :rolleyes:

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My baeutiful girly :D
 
I don't really like them unless horse is clipped, I also have a haffy so very much doubt I could fit her mane into one plus it keeps at least one side warm and dry :-)
 
I don't have any full neck rugs. My horse has a full mane and I'd rather it stayed that way. He's perfectly warm, especially under his mane. He isn't clipped though. When I started riding full necked rugs didn't even exist and somehow all the horses managed to survive.
 
I don't use them as i like my horses to eep their manes. I used them on 2 of my horses a couple of years ago and they both ended up losing a patch of mane so i wont be using them again. They are all warm enough without them.
 
depurple1 said:
I don't have any full neck rugs. My horse has a full mane and I'd rather it stayed that way. He's perfectly warm, especially under his mane. He isn't clipped though. When I started riding full necked rugs didn't even exist and somehow all the horses managed to survive.
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Ha ah!! However as someone who is very likely in the same age group as you I have to say I think they are great but would not bother with an unclipped native. The mane is a pain though I have been frantically spraying my horses manes with canter. I am a big fan of rug according to your horse not to what someone else thinks your horse needs though!
 
I use them during wet weather as sometimes find my TB ends up with wet shoulders otherwise. Only one of them has rubbed her mane though, her others have all been fine.
 
No I don't use them as sick of mane falling out, my boy is fully clipped and has no neck rug. He always fine and toasty, so don't see the need.

He not curled up and died yet from having a no neck rug on lol
 
My mare has full necks but they are lightweight rugs. She is a welshie but didn't grow a winter coat!!! My first winter with her, will see if we can grow one next year! She is perfectly healthy btw! So I cover her well but since being a big lass she doesn't need the weight!
 
I had Weatherbeetas (Landa and Orican) with my other mare and used them both because she'd just been repatriated from the South of France when I bought her in the January so I used them until she managed to rip the neck on one of them, so I cut it off.

Sham inherited them and has only worn rugs without necks this year. I don't think she'll be wearing the necked one in the next few weeks unless the temp drops to below -5.

In fact thinking about it, she's still in her M/Ws at the moment, and she's nice and warm (though she's in at night) so the Weatherbeetas are still in the rug box.
 
I am taking all my full neck rugs to the rug repair lady at the end of this winter to have the necks cut off, as I'm fed up of half her mane getting rubbed out. She is fully clipped but is quite a hot horse so doesn't really need the necks anyway
 
Spent two summers growing out the mane that rubbed out on my lovingly nurtured horse - now he's back to no neck, and perfectly happy - I've just got to come up with a different excuse for my dodgy plaits when he competes
 
My horse is full clipped leg and head and is wearing a MW shires and a liner rug tonight, no neck rug. I have given up on them, since in the last 5 years I have suffered from manes falling out because the horses are too hot, not rubbed, it comes out in clumps. And FWIW his ears are always warm in the morning and he has no cat hairs. So for me, it's a standard neck. He goes out in a MW Amigo with a no fill hood during the day and that is it. Our horses at work are TBs and have nothing on...
 
Just as an OTT point - recent research has proven that a neck cover (or keeping the neck warm with a long, thick mane) is far more effective than a heavy or layered rugs.
 
I've never used full neck rugs until this winter, but the horses now live on top of a hill up in the moors and it is VERY exposed. The YO has 3 shetlands that live out unrugged but our two are too wimpy :p. They have full neck medium weights for when the weather is really bad - i.e. very wet and windy, or blizzards! And the rest of the time they have been wearing medium weight standard necks. The Arab wears her full neck much more than the Welsh. I'm not used to keeping them somewhere where they actually NEED to be rugged up! They normally live out 24/7 but the weather is just too harsh up on the hill atm (there isn't a lot of shelter) so they are in overnight and they are only wearing medium weight standard neck stable rugs, and seem fine. It's just the wind that they struggle with.
 
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