Hood or no hood????????

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Do you keep a hood on your clipped horses?
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I clipped mine at the weekend and have put a rug an hood on as its turned quite chilly but his mane is already starting to fall out
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Do you hood your horses up? If so do their manes fall out? Or do you just leave their necks naked???

Please help me out I dont want to have a bald horse again but I dont want him to be cold either
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Thanks in advance
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I tend to think you should rug the bits you clip, so my horses that have clipped necks wear hoods. It also helps avoid woolly neck syndrome!

What's the lining like on your rug? Some are better/worse than others at rubbing manes out. Have you tried Fal rugs? The lining is quite slippery and less likely to rub. I prefer proper full neck rugs to the sort with necks that attach in 3 places, as I don't like a gap when the horse has its head down.
 
I am now avoiding hooded rugs because of mane rubbing once the current rugs are done will be replaced with no hood rugs!.And tbh have seen heaps of horses in past with full clips and standard rugs (do come in at night tho)and they have looked well.If really bad would either put neck on or take in.
 
It's still really quite mild, putting hoods on is really one of my bug bears, but I suppose it's down to personal preference.
My horses are only hooded in the worst depths of winter and only then if they are completely clipped. Hoods now, definitely not. Even when clipped they still have a short layer of fur.

I couldn't imagine anything worse than being wrapped up in scarf and balaclava, without being able to remove them, in this mild weather .....
 
My TB is fully clipped but at the moment I haven't got a hood on him, mainly because I think it's to warm for him to wear one during the day (I don't see him in the morning so can't take it off).

I have never had a problem with his mane falling out though so can't help you with that!
 
I have this problem with T – h has a full neck lightweight, a high neck middleweight and a neck less heavyweight and all will rub his precious mane out if not managed carefully. I put one of those nylon under-rug neck things on and that helps a lot, but I also try to rotate the rugs as this stops too much rubbing in one area. I also use the Tailgator MegaTek and I find it’s fab for strengthening the mane and preventing it rubbing out: http://www.tailgator.co.uk/ I wouldn’t have believed it until I tried it but the stuff really does work!

Plus I leave his rugs off as much as possible, changing them or taking them off when he’s in and putting off using them as much as I can. This is partly to stop mane rub and partly because he’s a very ‘hot’ horse so overheats very easily. He’s out naked at the moment and I’m giving him a neck & bib clip this evening – but he’ll still go out naked, cruel witch that I am, as he’s a tough cookie and will boil with a rug on at the moment!
 
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It's still really quite mild, putting hoods on is really one of my bug bears, but I suppose it's down to personal preference.
My horses are only hooded in the worst depths of winter and only then if they are completely clipped. Hoods now, definitely not. Even when clipped they still have a short layer of fur.

I couldn't imagine anything worse than being wrapped up in scarf and balaclava, without being able to remove them, in this mild weather .....

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mild weather? its 10oC here, tonight going down to 5/4oC tonight in the midlands......you'd hate my field, it's 'Hoods R Us' by November! Actually I have two hairy ones with nothing on yet (youngster will stay rug free, 20 Y.O will be rugged), I blanket clipped one on Sunday, she hasn;t had a hood on yet but will tonight and my other is grey so he always has a hood otherwise he's look like a neopolitan ice cream.
 
I usually put a neck on but I don't like hoods personally. Planning to clip him over the weekend and on nice days, he will be out with just his rug, on wet days he will have the neck and poss a cotton sheet underneath his rug.
 
I have put hood on mine as he is pretty much fully clipped, however it is very thin hood as is the rug. He feels the cold a lot once clipped and has been known to shiver!!! Despite being a chunky lol

It really depends on the horse to be honest AND to a large degree what the horse is used to. Rather mine be a little warmer than too cold.

Use what works for you, weather is different everywhere, mine also used to come in each night so I am going on the softer side this year...
 
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