Horse with a coarse coat... Ideas welcome

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My horse has not long since moved yards, settled in really well. He has now had a full clip as his coat was getting a bit manky and didn't really want to bath him in this freezing weather plus he was getting quite sweaty when worked. Anyway his coat is now growing back quite coarse. He's being fed linseed which I thought was supposed to make them nice and shiny... This is not happening.

Any ideas of what else I could try?
 
Hmm possibly, he just looks a bit dull and to be honest looked a bit dull and scurfy (is that a word) even before he was clipped, maybe I was just expecting a miracle transformation from feeding the linseed but it seems to have had no effect what so ever. Thanks for the reply :)
 
I hot cloth mine to remove excess grease and find poly/nylon shiny type rugs help to give them shine.She hates being groomed only do the bits I have to and she is muchos shiny girl.The only other way is plenty of elbow grease grooming.
 
Both of mine have been on micronised linseed and have shiny coats that blind you, I would be checking your horse for cushings, one symptom is rough coat that doesn't shed, also excessive sweating.
Hope you find out the cause. Good luck
 
Pretty certain it's not cushings, I've had one with it before and he's nothing like her. He does malt and only sweats when exercised. There is another lady who says the same about her horse after feeding linseed, their coats are both very similar, I wonder if I'm not feeding enough to make any difference, this mixed with him tipping his food on the floor and then picking at it so I'm not that sure hes eating it all
 
Probably just under half a mug a day. I was quite cautious at first as I had read about piling the weight on which he didn't need although after a few weeks of awful weather he could probably stand to gain a little more weight. After seeing him in the sun today he does have a little shine but he's just quite wiry where he's been clipped, I've taken off the fleece which was under his rug to see if that makes any difference also
 
My old horse was like this and a slightly eccentric old-fashioned horse dentist said she had an iron deficiency!
So she got iron tablets in her feed - it did work though!
 
I'm just about to start him on a new balancer which has a bit of everything, will have a look at the iron in that hopefully that will make a difference. Thank you
 
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