Moulting :)

[Persephone]

Has anybody else's Ned started moulting?

Mine has started definite shedding a few days ago! I am putting it down to the mild weather. She doesn't wear a turnout rug unless it is throwing it down and has only worn a fleece/cooler a handful of times at night.

What fun

 

[kal40]

My cob normally starts about now but we have had very cold weather over the past few days (-6 a night) so I think he is hanging on to every bit of hair for now.

 

[toystory]

Yes i have noticed my I.D has started to shed a few hairs.He has been turned out 24/7 this winter for the first time,put a 100g rug on him had to remove that recently he was too warm,tried a rainsheet and removed that also hes now perfectly happy wearing a mud rug,he just doesn't feel the cold

 

[flirtygerty]

Our two are not shedding yet, my lad is in LW just to keep him clean, the big ginger thing (TB) is still happily in a MW, out more than in the barn, it's been a weird winter

 

[Foxhunter49]

Dogs and cats moult, horses shed their coats!

Yes, most of mine have started to shed.

 

[emma.is]

shedding/moulting is triggered by light not temp

So because the nights are getting lighter ponies are moulting!

But no, Charles hasn't:')

 

[Arizahn]

Ali has been shedding/moulting for the past week or so now.

I am tempted to send her rugs off to be cleaned and mended...might wait another couple of weeks to be safe in case we have a sudden cold snap.

 

[KSR]

My two native ponies are moulting.. My horses are not yet..

I really hope it doesn't go below zero again, don't want mud either though :/

 

[ILuvCowparsely]

My mare is casting a little of her coat not much.

 

[KSR]

Shedding, sorry.. I'm on my iPhone and can't edit

 

[ILuvCowparsely]

Dogs and cats moult, horses shed their coats!

Yes, most of mine have started to shed.

In the 70,s I was trained its called cast

One of My BHSAI questions was name 3 definitions of cast



1. cast a shoe
2 cast their coat
3. being cast in a stable



CASTING THE COAT
Horses cast (change or molt) Their coats in spring and autumn and tend to look a little rough, particularly in autumn. There is an old saying that no horse looks its best at blackberry time, and it's true. The hair comes out at intervals-the horse will cast a little and grow a little, cast a little and grow a little, until after a month or two the new coat will be complete, or "set".

 

[Dirtymare]

In the 70,s I was trained its called cast

One of My BHSAI questions was name 3 definitions of cast



1. cast a shoe
2 cast their coat
3. being cast in a stable [/B]



CASTING THE COAT
Horses cast (change or molt) Their coats in spring and autumn and tend to look a little rough, particularly in autumn. There is an old saying that no horse looks its best at blackberry time, and it's true. The hair comes out at intervals-the horse will cast a little and grow a little, cast a little and grow a little, until after a month or two the new coat will be complete, or "set".

Now that is interesting. I have never heard it called casting.
Also that they start to cast their coat when the light changes - facinating.
What a wionder Mother Nature is.

 

[Ladylina83]

Well in that case both of mine are casting their coats !

Ps call it what you like we all catch your drift !

 

[rara007]

Yup, I've not noticed it on the ponies but C who isn't really clipped, though not hairy and has been rugged definately is losing his coat

 

[ILuvCowparsely]

Now that is interesting. I have never heard it called casting.
Also that they start to cast their coat when the light changes - facinating.
What a wionder Mother Nature is.

woops showing my age now.

thats the only word in the 70's
its on this web site in the telltale signs heading
http://www.ker.com/library/equinews/v5n3/v5n314.pdf

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excessive hair
growth, called hirsutism, and the inability to cast winter
coats are the primary signs of Cushing’s disease