Horse rugging Project

[charmedkatie]

Hi, im doing a investigative project in college on whether horses should be rugged or left in a natural state. I would really appriciate it if people could fill in this quick questionaire for me. Need to gather information on peoples personal opinions.

http://www.eSurveysPro.com/Survey.aspx?id=3e2c7424-b06d-45b7-bf30-5c9c7d77fbbf

Thanks

 

[Brightbay]

Hi, im doing a investigative project in college on whether horses should be rugged or left in a natural state. I would really appriciate it if people could fill in this quick questionaire for me. Need to gather information on peoples personal opinions.

http://www.eSurveysPro.com/Survey.aspx?id=3e2c7424-b06d-45b7-bf30-5c9c7d77fbbf

Thanks

I tried to complete for you, but I'm afraid I got about as far as question 5 and then found repeatedly that there was no answer that reflected my opinion. My horse (who is an 11 year old well built ISH) wears a rainsheet in very heavy rain/wind. This is not to keep him dry for riding or because he's a light build - it's because he lives in a field with very little natural shelter and the winds we get (often gusts up to 70 mph) drive the rain through the layers of his (unclipped) coat. Since he would naturally take cover in this kind of weather, I provide some protection for him. He only wears the rug for periods of between 6 and 24 hours, the rest of the time he is not rugged. If, on the other hand, regardless of *build*, he began to lose weight, was tucked up or shivering for any length of time, I would first increase the amount of fodder available to him (i.e. put hay in his field), and if that did not have the desired effect, I would consider rugging.

So maybe you might like to consider an "other, please explain" category, since you've lost a potential response which might have been of interest to you Given that a lot of people on HHO do tend to rug based on the needs of the individual horse at a particular point in time, you may find others have problem responding too

 

[Capriole]

sorry, no.

I also only got to Q5 and couldn't answer. You need other options on the answers, as Brightbay says. I have multiple horses, also, and there wasn't the option to tick more than one option.

 

[dogatemysalad]

Sorry, I tried to compromise and complete it but as others said, there aren't sufficient options to answer correctly.

 

[chestnut cob]

I got to Q6 and gave up. I rug for all of those reasons, sometimes, not just for one... to keep dry for riding, to keep warm, because he is clipped, because I'm going to a show tomorrow and don't want him covered in mud, for condition (read.. to keep him warm)...

 

[webble]

I agree its not as straight forward as yes and no and also it doesnt say the type of rug. Put yes to all year but I was referrng to a fly rug

 

[charmedkatie]

I've changed a few answers and allowed for multi-choice in a few but because of the website It won't let me have the option to have people write their own answers.

I know rugging a horse or not is not that straight forward and comes down to the horse as an individual taking in a number of factors, but in order to analyse results and display them in the way my course requires, I need the choices to be quite basic.

Thanks for taking the time to look at it anyway

 

[martlin]

Why can you only be British or Swedish and why does it matter?

 

[charmedkatie]

Oh because I need to do a comparison between two countries and see if the overall opinion differs depending on where people live

 

[Capriole]

but in order to analyse results and display them in the way my course requires, I need the choices to be quite basic.

I understand the need for the questions to be quite basic, but when, as in your original survey, people can't answer the questions you will just end up with pointlessly inaccurate data.

 

[charmedkatie]

Ye I know that, my tutor told me the questions were all fine and everyone in my course who answered it said the same so I presumed it was okay enough to post else where

 

[martlin]

Oh because I need to do a comparison between two countries and see if the overall opinion differs depending on where people live

That's great, but you didn't ask where people live, you asked where they are from.

 

[charmedkatie]

Well the question I'm answering is more if there is a differance between the two countries rather than if people live there and moved so hopefully live/from wont really affect the results overall

 

[The Fuzzy Furry]

Sorry, another who could not complete it as questions from Q5/6 have no answer for me to click on as I do not agree with the only answers given to choose from.

 

[NaeNae87]

I got to question 2 and gave up. I am from Australia and not the UK or Sweden.

 

[Carlosmum]

Have answered all as accurately as I can, but not all the questions were easy to answer satisfactorily. Rugging is not about horses' 'build' but about age/work/condition.

 

[hnmisty]

Have answered all as accurately as I can, but not all the questions were easy to answer satisfactorily. Rugging is not about horses' 'build' but about age/work/condition.

Also done it but agree with this. Some of the answers I put I didn't really agree with, but they were the best choice that there was.

 

[ihatework]

Please tell me this hasn't be approved/reviewed for use by someone in a higher education establishment?!
There are many poor surveys floated around this forum, this one is near the top of the list.

 

[Smogul]

I also gave up. Just because my horse is on full livery and I don't look after it myself every day, it doesn't mean I don't have an opinion and a say on how it is rugged

 

[charmedkatie]

'well thank you to the people who have done it, yes I was told it was fine to cover the information I wanted for the project.

I'm not sure how to answer this properly. Yeah it's basic answers , but that's the point to get a general idea, not going into great depths.

How would you go about it may I ask? Like what other options for answers or questions. I get there are thousands of reasons why someone would or not put a rug on a horse. But the project is based on a completely healthy horse at optimum condition and on a general rider scale and to put all the different reasons would make it difficult to put into diagrams at the end. So I went with the options that came up the most when you research about whether to rug a horse or not.

feedbacks always appreciated. I've never had to do this kind if project before, so any tips would be helpful