It's cold - is anyone rugging yet/considering it?!

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As title really.

Came into work this morning and noticed it's markedly colder today, eek. Winter's coming, boo!!!!!

So.... when to rug up? Or are some people doing it already?
 
Yes, just gone from thin Amigo stable rug she's been wearing for a month to a middleweight one!
Mind you, we don't clip and I'm trying to keep her summer coat for a show at the end of the month!
 
Skye is out over night and in all day, she is naked in the stable and up until the last couple of nights has been naked overnight as well, however with the terrential rain we have had i have relented and she has had a rain mac on, never put a rug with any weight in till i clip.
 
Ellie has a sheet on already - I started putting it on last Friday, when I noticed her ears were a bit cold. She's shedding her coat like mad at the moment
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Me too, it seems ridiculous rugging up early September, but the coats aren't thick enough to cope with the rain and chill (well H's isn't!)
I don't care what people think, I'd rather my horses were protected (and I used to be anti-rugging lol lol )
 
LW overnight, naked during the day - he was looking a little worse for wear after being quite ill with infection + colic in July so he is being rugged earlier than I normally would. Am also feeding the beast, which I never do until November normally!!
 
Mine have had theirs on for the last few weeks and the last few days with all this rain my one girly has been looking very cold so she has had a neck cover on as well (Soft mummy i know).
 
Mine is in completly now and its depressing me! He has had a very thin rug on pretty much all of summer apart from when it was very warm but I cant remeber when then was lol. He now has his shires fleece on as he is a mard TB. Its amazing to see how many horses on my yard have got heavyweight rugs on which BTW dont get clipped. Makes me mad as these riugs will now stay on them until May time next year! Can you imagine how cold they will be in winter!
 
I haven't stopped rugging all year
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she's been out one night without a sheet and it hammered down all night (keeping me awake worrying about her being cold and not eating!) Most of the summer she has had an Amigo rain sheet on but the past few weeks she's been wearing her medium weight Rambo day and night
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they come on at the end of the month, I'm looking forward to it for once!
 
My mare is out with rhino light weight with neck most nights otherwise she is in nakid cause of rain poor mare probably just wants to be a horse but i worry to much so keep her rapped up, but yeah it was really chilly this am so medium rhinos coming out tonight..
 
I don't usually crack out the rugs this early but mine has had one on for almost a month now
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I don't usually start feeding until mid-October either but she's having two oat feeds a day already!
 
got mw rugs on at the mo, but been rugged for a good few weeks now. the outside horses are still naked but I have felt sorry for them a few times when it has been torrential rain so brought them in and put their thermatexs on!
 
Its quite cold, but Henry doesnt seem cold or anything, quite a few of the horses at the yard have rugs on at the moment, light weights. I got back from Spain on Sunday morning in the rain and thought it was freezing, but then dad reminded me I had just come from a place that had been 29 so I've decided against the rug option at the moment. H has enough fat on him atm to keep all 16 horses at the yard warm anyway lol!
 
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I have been rugging since the 2nd week in August
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It is so wrong
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Ditto that - came back from holiday on 18th Aug to find my horse rugged and coming in at night and other than the few warmer and drier days since that's what I've continued to do - I did try a few days a couple of weeks ago naked and out 24/7 on the basis that it was still August and ended up with a grumpy, cold, wet and miserable, very tucked up horse who (according to the weight tape) lost 40kg in 2 days!!! So back to rugging and much happier horse! That said, atm she's only got a rainsheet on when she's out in the day and a fleece at night but it won't be long before that changes....
 
My yearling is left naked, but my 2 girls are both in MW now -and the pony I have had to clip already - gutted - silly hairy sweaty pony! My bigger mare is still naked in the stable in the day time, but the pony has a fleece or a LW stable rug on depending on the weather. Am thinking that they will probably be wanting to be tucked in bed over night shortly
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I feel very bad - my horse is one of few that isn't rugged up yet. There are quite a few in medium weights too! She has had it on a handful of times in summer when it was torrential, freezing rain.

I just keep telling myself she has enough hair and flab to keep her warm - but the one person who always says she's overweight said "she's atually not overweight for once"

The temperature has dropped during the day but not much at night so I'm holding off till then/clipping time.
 
Mine have had LWs on since Friday, not so much cold but the rain has been really heavy and I don't have a shelter now. I think I'm gonna have to start bringing them in at night soon though as my fields are looking like mud baths, and it's only September, I don't normally bring in til end of November.
 
G has been feeling (very) cold with his lightweight turnout during the day and a fleece or sheet at night.

He now has a turnout with some filling and a neck during the day and a stable rug w/ about 250g filling at night and he still doesn't feel 'warm'.

He's wearing neoprene chaps (which are doing a super job at keeping mud fever - which he got in Aug!! - at bay) so I feel like a right softy.
 
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