Hands up if you haven't rugged your horse!

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Absolutely no judgement towards anyone who has rugged - different horses, different circumstances - but it'd be nice to know I'm not the only evil swine of an owner out there :D
 
Sorry, can't join you on that, it hasn't stopped raining all day so both are rugged. If it was just drizzly I'd have them out naked too though!
 
Both mine are naked, and come hell or high water they will stay naked... both too porky for their own good, but have put a rain sheet on the old fella.
 
Not all winter for some, and not had a rug on anything at all for ages. Its not that bad here, rainy, but its not cold and rainy. I dont consider myself evil either :D
 
Me! Well one has been left naked since Feb. One has a LW on if it's really raining and the other has a fly rug on when it's warm-he gets eaten alive otherwise-if he didn't he too would be naked.
 
Mine are all naked, apart from the very fit event horse who needs a bit of protection he is only in a lightweight though. They are all fine eating in the middle of the fields in the pouring rain:)
 
Two horses inc TB are naked (out 24/7) but Sec A pony was standing shivering in his bare paddock and is now rugged. Bare paddock is now a mud bath and under an inch or so of water so he's had to go back into grassy field with a muzzle on. I'm really struggling with keeping lami pony off the grass when it's this cold and wet. So frustrating.
 
I have a WB and Wimpy Welshie here unrugged- they do come in for 6 hours a day to give them a break from stuffing their bellies though- but I'll be turning them back out into the rain tonight.

Heartless I know I do feel bad actually but the WB is too fat and shivering a bit of weight off won't do him any harm- crueler to let them get fat!
 
I hadn't rugged - pony was shivering but tough love, she is muzzled so a bit of shivering helps with the fat ;).

However she is now in her stable and looking very smug as been diagnosed with splint fracture so now on box rest :(
 
I am ashamed to admit I was guilted (sp?) into it by my YM. I got to the yard at lunchtime (max is out 24/7) and all the rufty tufty cobs were lined up in the barn in their fleeces on! My horse is fairly cobby and lived on exmoor without a rug for 5 years but YM said 'they were all cold when they came in'. So off I trek up to the field caught Max (a miracle itself in the rain!) and felt the base of his ears. Not cold but not exactly warm so decided as I had him I'd bring him in for some hay and put his fleece on. So as he will be dry I have asked my YM to turn him back out later with his lightweight on. He would probably have been fine but I would just have worried all afternoon and night about him being cold!
 
Excellent! Evil swines unite! :D And no, I don't really feel evil...I was out with her in the rain yesterday and I could barely describe her as damp. 4 yo part horse/part minke whale...if the rain keeps up she's in more danger of being harpooned by lost Norwegians than she is getting a chill :D


acw295 said:
I hadn't rugged - pony was shivering but tough love, she is muzzled so a bit of shivering helps with the fat ;).

However she is now in her stable and looking very smug as been diagnosed with splint fracture so now on box rest :(
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Now that's a conspiracy if ever I heard one! :D
 
My two babies are naked, out, and both part thoroughbred!! :o
This is partially because 2yo is an exhibitionist and wont wear a rug, and also wont allow my 4yo to wear a rug either... but neither are cold!
 
I have one rugged and one not. The rain was torrential last night! Couldn't believe how heavy it got, but my cob is hardy, whereas my mare isn't
 
It's thrown it down here all day. Mine have been out in their middleweights and are now in drying them out...crazy...its June! Never previously had to rug in June, especially not anything thicker than a rain sheet!
 
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