have you even used your heavy rugs yet?.

I don't have HW's as mine are both native types but unusually I haven't even needed their MW's this year. They have either been naked on days like today or LW's when its been very wet. Its great, my tack room is looking much tidier without the usual dirty rug pile at this time of year.
 
I have but not a lot, and only on my working horse since she has been clipped out.
But it is very mild (when it's not heaving down with rain), so I'm hoping the yard put her mw on today cos it's very sunny out there!
 
Medium weights only on a half clipped ISH. If she is in the stable during the day at the weekends she is often naked as she likes to have a good roll in the straw.
 
Prince33Sp4rkle said:
riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight...

really? my fully fit (competing PSG, schooling GP) fully clipped TB ,with EPSM,doesnt need a HW? what planet are you on...............

and ditto for all the other thin skinned, fully clipped, wimpy sorts-would you rather let them shiver.

moronic statement.
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I'm sure that's true.....if your horse grows the coat of a yak and you don't ever intend to 'work' it while resembling a yak. It is great when horses can be kept o'natural, all my 3 could cope no problem with very minimal rugging but I make the choice to keep them in work through Winter, which means they need clipping, which means they need rugging. So my horses DO need heavy weight rugs.
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Gawd you lot are easy to wind up!
 
My TB moved onto his medium quiet quickly at the beginning of winter if i remember rightly but he has stayed in it. Gave him a chase clip and continued in the medium weight rug. I must admit i tend to leave him stabled over night in his turn out. Very rarely does he have a stable rug put on although he does have one.

I said if it went into -minus figures I would consider the heavy weight but more likely I would layer with a fleece and clip him more to balance it.

I dont think any of my post just made sense! :p
 
Yup. In fact even today which is fairly mild my fully clipped, fit eventer is out in not only a full neck heavyweight but also has an insulator rug underneath. He & I are both happy with this arrangement :)
 
Maybe we are like the horses all pent up with energy and frustration due to this bonkers weather.....

On another weather related note..... Is anyone having problems with there mares coming into season irratically...... One of ours was last in December and came in again 2 days ago. And she's the worse tart spraying EVERYWHERE.... If by boy was rugged to his ears I'd dread to see what he would be covered in!
 
No I prefer to use a medium weight and liner instead of a heavyweight. All my liners get washed every week which you couldn't do with a turn out rug.
 
Yes. When it has dropped below 5 degrees C. Because whichever way you face in the Fens, the wind blows straight from Siberia and our winter grass paddocks have no shelter. Our sand paddocks are also too small for them to do much other than stand around so they tend to get a little colder than they would do otherwise. Having said that, I have used the HW stable just once. He is currently in 275g made up of a very lightweight under rug with no neck and a 200g stable rug with neck. And this only because he is in the end stable open to the four winds (which all blow from Siberia).
 
nope, both of mine reached a middle weight rug but haven't needed the heavy weight as been so mild, my mare's heavy rugs are still in the packet with the tags on :) in fact she has only been in her stable fleece rug once this winter other wise she been naked in the stable (she lives out at night)
 
My chaser clipped TBx is currently out 24/7 in a 70g; she did have a 100g liner in it but was too warm. I haven't had more than the 70g with a 100g liner on her all winter and she's only had the neck cover on once despite her neck being fully clipped.
 
Yes. In a heavyweight AND a mediumweight some nights.

She's stabled on top of a welsh hill. Lots of cold wind. She copes fine in just a mediumweight or heavyweight most nights but some nights I bring 2 into action. Why? Because she's my horse and what I say goes. ;)
 
No! Mine havnt been in anything more than meduim weights all year and theyve bin naked last two days! my anglo is soooo much happeir without a rug on, hes got the spring back in his step and the sparkle in his eye prancing round with his tail curled over his back! He lives out 24/7 and isnt a very good doer but despite the wet weather its bin very warm and hes certainly not cold and isnt looking "tucked up" so rugs are staying off till nxt winter, unless the weather suddenly gets dramatically worse :)
 
My highland only went into his middle weight a couple of weeks ago and was back in his lightweight today, but he's only got a chaser clip so still has a lot of his "natural" hair. Strange weather we're having ...
 
Yup, Genie's been in hers (Welsh Cob, but fully clipped out including legs), and I've never been one for over-rugging. Fanfare (also Welsh Cob, clipped out but not legs) has had a lightweight stable under her medium once or twice, but generally is in a medium.

Today they are both out in mediums, but G will be in heavyweight tonight.
 
Yes.. they are still in HW combos at night :o they are fully clipped and live out though! I am changing to MW combos probably tomorrow, they don't seem too hot but I certainly don't think they need HW on . Would've changed them today but have some leg strap switching and stitching up to do first. My ISH had a HW combo and no fill combo underneath, I felt the HW neck was too open and gappy for the wind chill.
 
Yes - mine has been in a H/W since just before Xmas, and is now in a 400g H/W with 200g neck, and has two liners underneath too.

Lats year, he never had above a 300g, and spent most of it in a 200g even in the snow. But this year, we've moved yards to an open hill where the wind buffets them al the time. He's out 24/7, and he's clipped this year too unlike last.

Plus, he obviously feels the wind and rain we've had pretty constantly for the last six weeks worse than the snow last year, she he's never once felt uncomfortably warm, let alone sticky or sweaty.

He is also keeping his weight on much better this year, and I think rugging up is helping with that hugely as he isn't a great eater. It might go against all my instincts to have so many rugs on but he is looking great!
 
Yep - I rug according to how they feel and what the weather's doing. Alf is in a HW turnout with a stable rug underneath (clipped out completely) when its chucking down with rain and windy, a HW turnout when its ok, and a MW when its nice. He has a turnout neck cover attached to his stable rug, so if its vile enough for him to need the stable rug underneath, he's also got a neck cover on.
Spike and Tia are in MW's - both unclipped, but they're blood types, and they're old. Lola is in a HW Combo and an under rug, because she's old and thin and not in the best of health.
 
Sorry it was meant more as a woohoo I know the weather has been rubbish but least it's not freezing type thing, not to judge or belittle anyone's choice!
 
I don't use heavyweights - but I have rugged the ponies for many more days this winter than usual as they are getting miserable and tucked up in the very wet weather. Not fair and no point in letting them getting stiff muscles and stressy.
And these are unclipped natives, well acclimatised to living high on a hill in the always wet and windy West Country.
 
Mine live out and one is clipped, not been above a 200g yet. It's been so mild! Had all my heavyweights cleaned and re proofed in the summer and they are still in the bags.
 
I've been very disappointed. Bought new pony in December. Bought lovely new heavyweight rug same week. Never even tried it on. Naked horse is a big hairy naked radiator. However, I've also bought a sweet itch rug and hood, so there may yet be a chance to dress him later in the year..
 
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