Oh Poop! Do u think he will be ok if?

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Juts found out today that ht egirl who puts our horses out is going for some real jobs and so she may not be able to turn them out. I can't get to the yard in the morning to do it, so he will most likely have to go out 24/7. He is fully clipped at the moment, but it is growing back in, and he is a VERY good doer who is 40kg over what is his suggested Ideal weight. and they do get haylege in the field.

He was out the other day in his MW, with a neck rug and was really toasty under it and the thermometer in someones car was reading -3, so I guess he isnt that cold.
I would feel kinda bad, but to be honest I think that as much as he likes being fussedover at night, he likes being out and being a horse!

But, Do u think he will be ok, given that he is clipped and the weather has been all over the place, and snow is predicted!
 
He'll be absolutely fine. Just make sure that he has plenty of hay which will keep him warm and check under his rugs daily just to make sure.

Mine live out in -30C most days of the winter, on a normal winter anyway, so I think your guy won't suffer being out in -3C.
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Just ignore them.

When I flew my pony out from England to here in Canada, it was +10 when she left England and she arrived to -20 temperatures AND she had a high blanket clip. She was absolutely fine, I just rugged her up with no problems whatsoever.
 
My 6 all live out and 2 of them are fully clipped. They are absolutlely fine and they love living out with round bales of hay. They march back up to the field every evening after they've been ridden. Rug technology is so good now that there's no reason why a fully clipped horse can't live out.
 
Personally I think it's very unfair to have a fully clipped horse out 24/7. I think I may be more or less alone in my views - but thought I would add them.
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No amymay you are not alone in your views I could not let one of mine fully clipped live out but thats imo but there are very good rugs on the market.
 
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No amymay you are not alone in your views I could not let one of mine fully clipped live out but thats imo but there are very good rugs on the market.

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Yes, there are some absolutely fantastic rugs out there true. But like you, still couldn't do it.
 
To hijack this thread a little, Murph was due to be clipped in November but had a respiratory infection so we left him as not in work. He has just, at last, had a clear endoscope so after another week or so off will be looking to get him back into work. Trouble is he is now quite woolly and really needs to be clipped as will sweat up badly. He is out during the day with a medium weight rug and in at night. I am not sure if it would be very mean to clip him now, but also realise if we don't do it fairly soon it will be too late. We do have heavyweight, full neck rugs etc. for him. Any views please?
 
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Personally I think it's very unfair to have a fully clipped horse out 24/7. I think I may be more or less alone in my views - but thought I would add them.
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Ditto
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I am going to be controversial. I think to keep horse in 24.7 is far worse than having a fully clipped but well rugged horse living out. One of my friends has a chunky monkey. Her vet advised he to give her a bib clip and turn her out because she was over weight. We forget that horse do not have the same comfort requirements as us , and though there will be exceptions (my TB x likes to come in at night) horses can cope much better with the cold than we give them credit for. Also so many horse ailments are due to us keeping them in unatural conditions.
 
I know it seems a bit mean, bit he still has more hair on his legs than the unclipped legs of some of the others that live out, and even clipped with a MW his is always very toasty under his rug, and not at all interested in coming in.

The fields they are in are extremely sheltered, when it was blowing a gale on the yard when I walked down there to fetch him it was so calm it was like a different region!

And he does still have a full bushy mane, and he will have a neck rug on.

I do kinda see that him, even clipped and rugged, has more insulation than a non clipped horse left out without a rug on, so if he has a belly rug on to then he will probably be MORE insulated. And surely if he was cold his coat would have grown back in by now given that he was clipped at the beginning of December?

The thing is that if he as to go out he has to go out, as I cannot get there to turn him out, and there is no way he is staying in all day - plus there would be no one to give him feed/haynet in the morning.
 
Your horse will be fine - go down late one night and see if you find him shivering. If you don't and you more then likely won't he will be A OK.
 
Hi Beau,would help out if I could but I don't do our lot in morning -OH and brat do them before school.Just a thought there are about 28-32 stable and most are in use and L didn't do all of them.whats E doing with her two?.You could ask about and see if someone else would do it
 
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