How does your horse cope in the rain?

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Just been thinking about the number of 'my horse is wet and miserable - shall I bring him in?' posts on here recently and thought I'd do a little poll.

I turned up at the yard yesterday morning - it was 8 degrees, p*ssing rain and windy. To find my unrugged, very thin coated TB who lives out happy as larry and toasty warm with steam rising from her back! She's a bit backwards - the more you rug her and feed her and stable her, the worse she does - even in winter.

So how do yours cope with the unusually bad weather? Anyone else got a particularly tough TB or an unusually wimpy native?
 
It depends what mood he's in
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Most of the time he wants to go back into his stable though.
 
D is a tb and feels the wet and cold easy so he'll stand at the gate looking really miserable until you bring him in to dry off then put a rug on. The midget shetland hates getting wet, he will visible shake in the field, throw a wobbler and will drag you in to the stable!!! i've never known anything like it, and if he's in the stable when it starts raining, you have to shove an elbow up his @rse to get him out... H is the only one that doesnt mind what the weather is either way, he just gets on with it!
 
He is fine this time of year, infact he seems to almost relish it.

As my boyfirend keeps telling me , sarcastically, "he will not shrink"
 
I have a thin coatedthoroughbredy thing and she would rather stand in three foot of water than come into her stable. Even in all the freezing snow in the winter she had to go out every day and if I bring her in now its summer she gets very cross indeed. Even if its only for half an hour. She really couldn't care less about all the rain. And she lives on thin air as well. She's brill!
 
Hates it - runs to the field shelter after the tiniest drop!
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Hides in there until it stops. He's always dry though!
 
mine loves it,,, but she's hard as nails. no rug, well she has a sopping wet boett on which to me must be even worse but she was the only one grazing away from the shelter today in down pours!, as if she didn't even realise its hammering it down!!
 
The "white boy massive," our three hooligan Baby P's couldn't care less! They'll just carry on bombing around the field taking chunks out of each other. Mag on the other hand is incresingly liking his creature comforts as he gets older, he still hates rugs (works in a breast collar now so is of the belief he shouldn't have anything around his shoulders in his down time!) he seems to like being in. Poss so he's away from the babies, 15 years is a big age gap!
 
Meikle copes fine with it- its me that struggles with being used as a towel!!!
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He is happiest out in all weathers (rugged as necessary) unless it's horizontal rain and gales but as soon as he is in, he wants out again!!!

The best solution for him is free access to a stable/ shelter.
 
Mine are fine with the rain, they only use the field shelter on hot days to escape the flies. They have no choice but to rough it! At the end of the day they are horses not children and are able to survive a drop of rain/snow/hail!

I would only put a rain sheet on if I didnt have a field shelter and there was high winds mixed in with the rain - and that would only be for the elderly tb I have!
 
One has a strop and canters around the fied bucking and rearing. The other stands in a corner with her head about 6" off the floor, shivering in a major drama queen hissy fit.
 
Not sure which option to check---he really doesn't seem to care what the weather is like, so it seems wrong to say he prefers it to hot and dry, but on the other hand, he doesn't wear a rainsheet, either!

Rain or shine, he's in the middle of the field, eating.

This probably explains why he's so round ATM.
 
the only on that is really effected by the rain is my 3 yo. She was heavily rugged before I got her so is a bit of a weed. She physically shivers in the rain bless her so is in a LW rug in this weather.
Today I have rain sheets on the other 2 but only because they were recently bathed!
 
In my horse's books rain = mud so rain must be good
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He does like to come in when its heavy rain and cold and windy, but this time of year he's not bothered.
 
mine are all fine- so far i have yet to own a horse which dissolves in rain, despite many tbs and fine horses in the yard!
 
When I first got my horse he hated the rain. He scrunched himself up as small as possible and looked thoroughly miserable. The only problem was that if it started to rain while I was riding he would try and do the same. Constantly turning his bum into the rain and refusing to do anything. Even when it was only drizzling! I had to take a firm approach and leave him in the field (I made sure he had a rug on and was warm). Now he is happy whatever the weather and quite happily stays out through all the storms plus he is now ace to ride in the rain. Horses are built to withstand a bit of rain so provided they are warm I say leave them out.
 
Mine dissolves completely if it rains, just complete disappears. thankfully when it stops he dries out and somehow all his molecules come back together in the right order
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Slightly more seroiusly, 1 is fine, t'other runs round like a loon and hence is rugged and booted if it looks like we are going to have wet weather
 
Mine is fine at this time of the year & prefers to be out - in fact he'll tell you when he wants to stay out for the summer cos you can't catch the little b*gger to bring him in!

But he's a total wuss in the winter, hates mud, can't stand winter rain and normally shouts at the gate from about 2pm to be brought in. His stable is his best friend in the winter. He's a Sec D!
 
Ziggy I have a TB just like yours, she is constantly warm even in the worst of weathers, and the other day I went to the yard in the rain to find the others under the trees grazing in the shelter while she was in the middle of the field getting soaking wet and not caring. We are convinced that she must be part pit pony...!

There are 3 more TB's in her field and all of them cope fine out, the two older ones get a rainsheet on if its really wet and anything under 4-5 degrees and the younger ones really wont get a sheet on unless they are going somewhere and need to be kept clean.

I have a TB staying with us at the moment before he goes to his new home who wintered out at his last home rugless and he has been fine!
 
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out of our 7 dales, 6 love the rain as it equals lots of lovely mud to roll in and 1 who is a total whimp and will mug you for a rug of any description and come under an umbrella if you take one in the field LOL
 
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