Irish clip with feathers on or off?!

[Pink Gorilla]

I have an Irish Cob X. He doesn’t have the heavy feathering of my full cob pony, but they’re heavier feathers than a Section D for example. Anyway all through the year since I bought him I’ve whipped his feathers off to smarten him up a little. But now that he has an Irish clip (he’s not in enough work to warrant a full clip and lives out 24/7) I am struggling to take his feathers off his lower legs, but still blend them with his upper legs which obviously stay on with an Irish clip. I’ve not done a bad job of blending the short hair on the clipped lower legs to the long hair on the unclipped upper legs (my previous life as a hairdresser came in handy). But because he’s palomino, the colour change is soooo unforgiving. Basically pure white clipped lower legs to golden upper legs. I don’t want to whip his whole front legs off, as then that means I’ll have to take the bum and back legs off to colour match. Should I leave his feathers on just for the winter, or carry on with the white, super high over-the-knee sock look?? Photo looks better than in real life, but check out the bad colour change on back legs and even though I used trimmers with a 12mm grade on front upper legs to blend with short clipped lower legs, they still made the whole front legs look pretty white compared to his back.

 

[rabatsa]

Just pretend that he has white markings.

 

[Afon_34]

I’ve just done a very similar clip with my grey (I call it the chicken leg look) & we’re just going to embrace it until it grows out a bit ?

 

[holeymoley]

Give it a couple of days and the hair will have grown a bit. Or they will be covered in mud/poo ?.

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

It will look fine after a few days but I have done a clip where I extend the line behind so it incorporates the hind legs as well, but seriously after a few days in mud you won't notice.

 

[Antw23uk]

Well you've done it now, lol! Honestly just embrace it, no one is judging you but yourself. Just enjoy him .... People are judging you for that mane though .. just saying

Joke x

 

[Auslander]

Whenever you feel bad about how your horses legs look - take another look at this pic, and you will instantly feel better

 

[Widgeon]

Whenever you feel bad about how your horses legs look - take another look at this pic, and you will instantly feel better

Is that a horse or a llama?? ? And can I ask what you did next - did you have to shave the rest of him??

 

[Rowreach]

You're overthinking this OP ? he's not going to badmouth you on Facebook and go somewhere else for his next haircut ?

If he's like most cobs you'll be clipping so often you'll not be worrying too much. He looks absolutely lovely and he's a gorgeous colour, nobody else will see what you're seeing.

 

[Auslander]

Is that a horse or a llama?? ? And can I ask what you did next - did you have to shave the rest of him??

It is my lovely old horse. He looked like one of the cygnets in the Matthew Bourne Swan Lake

I fixed him...you just need to pretend that you can't see he was still trace clipped on one side!