How many rugs is your horse wearing?

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In the current cold snap,it's tempting to dress your horse in his entire wardrobe all at once.

Mine 5 yr old TB is wearing:

a Cameo fleece
a weatherbeeta full neck under rug
an Amigo medium weight stable
a JHL medium turnout with neck cover

How many rugs is your horse wearing?
 
When in her stable she's in a fleece, her amigo insulator and a mw stable rug. She was turned out today and is in her heavyweight half neck rug. She's an IDxCob but clipped and really feels the cold!
 
** nasty owner alert **

I still have some out - NAKED!
They have in fairness got such a thick winter coat on though, adding a rug would really upset their own climate controls.

Some of my others though are in MWs, the oldie is in a HW combo. Those stabled are either naked (with foals at foot still hence i avoid rugs at all cost with those) or in MW or HW combos.
 
My 2 are fully clipped, TB in a HW combo and cob in a MW combo when out. TB in her fleece, duvet and HW stable rug when in, cob in a sheet, duvet and fleece when in.
 
My two arabs are fully clipped and out in their heavyweights. On researching though it would appear they are only 300g so I'm feeling a bit guilty as I thought they were 350g!
 
My Irish Sports Horse (clipped & living in at night) is in a heavy weight full neck, a middle weight standard and a light weight standard for when it's very cold but when it's slightly warmer he is in his heavy weight full neck and middle weight/light weight standard. I always find him a nice toasty temperature whenever I check under his rugs.

Whereas my 3 year old New forest/Warmblood cross (un-clipped) is living out in a full neck middle weight/light weight and is still slightly clammy in the day time and he has absolutely no coat what so ever for this time of year.

I feel it also depends the amount of feed they are getting and the location of the fields. If the fields are based in open land/high land/cliffs etc then it's going to slightly colder to them fields which are low lying and surrounded by shelter.
 
I have a couple in MW rugs (one each) and the rest arent wearing any. I offered another one a rug last night and she quite plainly told me 'no'.
 
I don't really like to rug too much but my arab loses condition quite easilly so i've given in to rugging her more than I would want to. I prefer to do that than throw money down the drain by feeding her tonnes and her burning it off straight away lol! At the moment she's in a HW with neck and sometimes like today when we are minus two, I pop a fleece under for extra warmth. At night she gets a medium rug and again if the temp drops below zero then I do tend to fleece as well. I wish she wasn't such a baby! lol!
 
claracanter said:
In the current cold snap,it's tempting to dress your horse in his entire wardrobe all at once.

Mine 5 yr old TB is wearing:

a Cameo fleece
a weatherbeeta full neck under rug
an Amigo medium weight stable
a JHL medium turnout with neck cover

How many rugs is your horse wearing?
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sorry I don't agree with this


putting 4 rugs on doesn't make them warmer than one good quality 350- 450 grm one all your doing is putting allot of weight on your horse

My horses have 4 weights of rug


4oz
70z
12oz
14oz

all of these can have an underug under thus putting on another 2 or 4 oz to the total

thus horse wears 2 rugs max




I dont believe in over rugging your horse with more than 2 rugs.

One of my liveries has 5 rugs on 5 fillet strings I am surprise he can walk..

why not buy 1 350 or 450 grm rug and be done with it.:rolleyes:
 
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luckilotti said:
** nasty owner alert **

I still have some out - NAKED!
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:D:D:D

My fully clipped WBxTB wears a Snuggy Hood head, a Rhino Combo stable rug (350g) with a lite weight Rambo XL turnout rug with neck over the top when she's out during the day. At night (stabled) she's wearing a Thermatex hood, with a Bucas Power turnout combo rug over the top.

Before she was clipped (and was living out 24/7 in all weathers) she was out in a Amigo 1200d Medium weight combo turnout rug with the Rambo XL light weight over the top (for added water-proofing).
 
ok back int he 890's fair enough when good quality rugs were few and far between and the only under rug you could buy or use was blankets so yes i have 4 blankets on, but now when so many heavy weight rugs are available why weigh your horse down with +4 rugs???:confused:
 
Right now today mine is in an old Rhino stable rug under a 300g protuff standard neck T/O.

At night he's in a Weatherbeta 360g full neck Belmont stable rug under the Rhino stable rug.

I was worried he was cold last night but actually this morning he was just right.

If it gets really cold (like minus 10!) he has a human duvet under the weatherbeta stable rug at night.

I find guessing rugs really hard. Mine hates being too hot, he gets heat bumps and becomes really itchy (especially on his neck!). Too cold however and he looks puffed up like a fluff ball (a feat as he's fully clipped!) and is fidgety. Typical sensitive Ginger!
 
I broke my ankle before xmas and so the yard where I keep my horse said they would look after him....now he was on his hols anyway and was planning to bring him into work in dec. so he was unclipped. I couldn't get down to the yard for about 6 weeks and when I did I was horrified to find him in 3 rugs!!!!!!!! I had put a medium weight turnout on him as he was living out but the weather was bad. Yard Owner is one of these people you just can't argue with....she kept changing rugs back.

Now he is back in work about 4 weeks and he was clipped last week and has a kind of insulator rug on underneath a HW rhino turnout. He's living in all the time at the moment as he's keeping one of the other liveries company who is on box rest. We are not getting the same cold weather but he seems happy enough.

I am not a fan of putting too many rugs on. 2 is enough as far as I am concerned but only if they are clipped and in work.
 
I don't normally layer rugs as I prefer just to use one rug. Up until today George (shire tbx with chaser clip) has been wearing a no fill rambo with a 200g liner. But as it has got so much colder and I've not got a 300g liner I've had to add a fleece today, but i'm off work tomorrow so will get his thicker liner :) The neck of his rug is no fill and he seems fine.
 
Mine both have h/w combo's and a fleece or liner underneath at night when its cold like this - one is young and traced, other is unclipped but old.
 
I don't layer either, i think it must be quite uncomfortable for them. I have rugs for every eventuality. My tb is in a 350g full neck jsut now. If it gets colder and heavy snow she gets her PE 450g with full neck on.
 
A MW with no neck in the day, horse has a tiny bib clip.

A MW with magnet mesh rug underneath at night.

3yo is out unrugged. And will remain so tonight, unless I fancy reintroducing him to rugs after a year of not wearing them :eek: :D
 
Warmblood is in a 450g full neck Premier Equine turnout, and then at night has a 450g stable rug. ISH has a fleece, and a HW turn out (about 330g)
 
Mine is stabled 24/7 atm, he's full TB, unclipped.

He has 200g (no neck) during the day. Just a fleece when its milder.

And the same rug + fleece at night. OR recently when its been reaaaally reaaaally cold at night hes had his 360g full neck turnout on.

I turned him out last week in his HW and he was WAY too hot.
 
My two live out during the day and come in at night.

Both horses are unclipped and have adlib hay in their stables to keep them warm

My Section D has a middleweight high neck stable rug on him at night and a middleweight combo turnout rug when he's out.

My Arab x Cob has a jute (oldschool! :D) as an under rug and a medium weight stable rug. She has a middle weight turnout rug when she's out, unless its especially cold, in which case she will have a fleece on underneath.

When it gets milder, they will both be turned out in lightweight rugs during the day and will have fleece coolers on at night.

In the summer, they'll be going out nekkid 24/7 :)
 
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