Pros and cons of different types of clips

[Achinghips]

what do you have and why?

 

[rhino]

Normally clip out completely because:

1. I'm cr@p at clipping and can't do lines
2. Horse has stupid sensitive skin and is prone to allergic reactions/mud fever/rainscald. Much easier to treat the allergies and he has never had rainscald or mud fever on clipped areas
3. He is an unbelievably sweaty 'hot' horse who gets incredibly woolly if left unclipped
4. Allows me to feel less guilty about my rug buying fetish

 

[Achinghips]

Haha - love the last one!

 

[StormyMoments]

taz currently has a blanket clip

my only problem with it is i dont know whether to rug him like hes clipped or not but he didnt grow much of a coat so i rug him like hes clipped

he had a full clip last year because he was in more work but he dropps off weight and its even more difficult to keep it on when he is fully clipped

 

[MiCsarah]

I fully clip, my boy is a sweaty boy when he does any work so its best to just get it all off

 

[be positive]

I try and do a clip appropriate to the work the horse is doing, I would do anything from a bib to a full, I feel it is not always fair to take off too much if the horse is only doing light work and hardly sweats. There are always exceptions a very hairy cob may feel and work better with a full clip, a childs pony may be fresh and silly if too much is removed.
At the moment I have 1 hunter clipped, 1 high blanket, 1 trace and 1 with a low chaser. They may have a new style next time.

 

[JoJo_]

Fully clipped. My horse gets sweaty easily and is usually a hairy bear. I dont like his feathery legs so they come off too. Easier to keep clean and keep an eye on any mud fever. Also i'm not great at lines.

 

[SavingGrace]

I usually go for this style.... nice easy line to clip (please excuse the hippo that is modelling it)

 

[unbalanced]

My pony had a bib clip last year because she was on box rest. This year she had a full clip (legs left on, face off - I never do half face because it looks stupid) because I can't do lines and she is such a hot horse. I need to clip again already - she only wears a thermatex cooler as her night rug and she was sweated up in her stable this morning, well, the rug did its job so she was dry and the outside of the rug was wet but she'll be more comfortable when she's done.

 

[ClassicG&T]

Mines like a mammoth so its all coming off this year. Last year he had a trace but still sweated like billio so its just all coming off. he doesn't feel the cold so i don't go over board with rugs, just one for each weight.

 

[teamsarazara]

we just left legs on so lines were not to hard, we left mines legs on for her going in the field so she doesnt have mud right into her skin.

 

[dafthoss]

I full clip for the first one with absoultly every thing off as he got mud fever with hairy legs last year and never got it once they were clipped. Then he gets a blanket but with the whole face off as he looks like a yak still with a hairy face and gets sweaty under his bridle and then a full clip at last clip, less yak hair to pull out and no lines as they really show when his summer coat comes through.

 

[ElleSkywalker]

Mine has a blanket clip at the moment as is just coming back into work so not very fit & was sweating like a monster. Once she's fitter next clip will a hunter clip.

Have only ever done half head clip on her but would really like to a full head as she gets sweaty ears. Not sure how I'll manage that though as my little head friendly trimmers have done a bunk. Here little trimmers.......I have some nice oil for u..........

 

[Foxhunter49]

Most here have a hunter clip because they are in full work and hunt at least once a week.
If I am breaking a horse or it is in light work then I will do a high trace or blanket clip.

 

[Jesstickle]

I usually go for this style.... nice easy line to clip (please excuse the hippo that is modelling it)

BH has one of these this year. It's a bit higher on him but same reason. Easy to clip and I don't have to go near his bum (he isn't nice to clip!) plus he isn't a good doer so I like to leave him some cover over his bottom to stop him getting chilled. He works 4-5 times a week so needs more than a bib but as he isn't an especially hot horse this or a blanket is about right for him.

 

[sunshine19]

My boys are only in light work in the winter, all are wintered out with access to a large barn and adlib hay.

My welsh D has a low trace and is rugged and my wooly mammoth of a gypsy cob has a bib clip and no rug. I only take minimal hair off to keep them comfortable.

 

[Marydoll]

Ive just clipped my wee tb girl out the night, only thing left on is her legs, to protect her in the field and keep them warm
She is in regular work, ridden 6 out of 7 days and out competing, she is a bit of a sweaty girl
Thats the rugs wi necks getting dug out now

 

[EquiEquestrian556]

Mine's hunter clipped with half her face left on (she wouldn't let us do the rest, even under sedation).
She hunts heavily each autumn/ winter, show jumps and is ridden for around 2/ 3 hours every week including
jumping, schooling, hacking and galloping.

 

[indi4]

First clip I usually do a chaser if they're still living out, then once in a night take it all off apart from legs and half a head, as hate clipping head, far to fiddly

 

[Kadastorm]

Full clip except legs and half head, purely because im lazy.
Without a clip he is a hairy and dirty ****** who likes to get mud stuck in all places, if wet he takes forever to dry. so i clip it off to avoid it and as someone else said, it means i dont feel so bad about all the rugs i have (currently 10....)

 

[Moggy in Manolos]

Well Nell got her first ever clip,its an apron clip, I never like to take off more than needed.Nell is really pretty sweaty like my late mare, most I ever took off was in the form of an Irish/Chaser. I will see how Nell gets on with the clip she has

 

[kerrieberry2]

blanket now she is old but would have done a full clip when she was younger, shes a very warm sweaty horse! she gets really itchy so the more off the better in here eyes! she is also clipped all year round

 

[Hoof_Prints]

Full clip as my horse gets very hot and does lots of work inc hunting, he has the body of a muscley tb/warmblood but the hair type of a gypsy cob ! will grow feathers like a vanner if allowed to get like it, and has half of his mane hogged off and the rest pulled and its still too thick..
clipped legs are so much easier to clean especially white ones! allow mud to dry and brush off to reveal white legs again ! and I can also pick out thorns easily after hunting. Oh and ofc I can wrap him up in his lovely new HW rug

Downside.. I worry he will get cold, and I had to trot around the warm up this weekend for ages to get him warm enough, but once he had jumped he was sweating.

 

[Dizzydancer]

My tb has a blanket he is worked 5-6 times a week but if I took his bum totally off he would deck me even with a blanket clip I have to put exercise sheet on until warm. He is a wimp and doesn't do being cold. He wont need re clipping now til end Feb time I'm hoping to do a full clip then weather depending as will be out competing in march.

 

[spotty_pony]

My Appy - Full clip (except legs) for Hunting. Also, because it is quicker and easier because he has to be sedated and I don't have long to clip him before he wakes up!

My ISH - Trace and half a head because he gets sweaty when he gets excited but isn't in hard enough work to warrant taking too much off.

 

[khalswitz]

At the moment, an Irish with half face, but am considering taking more off as whenever we do fast work, hill work, travel or ride indoors he is sweating up quite a bit - and he isn't a sweaty horse normally, even in summer he didn't sweat a lot even jumping etc. Don't want to take the whole lot off as I know any slow hacking or walk/trot schooling will be a bit chilly, and it always snows enough here to stop me riding for at least two weeks and it will no doubt happen as soon as I full clip...

Am debating between a trace and a blanket.

 

[JustKickOn]

Blanket clip with half a head.

She had a full clip last year with legs left on, but was in a lot more work then. She is only doing light schooling, a fortnightly lesson and hacking this winter, so didn't see the point in whipping it all off. She does seem to get quite warm in our schooling sessions, but cools, washes and dries quickly afterwards, and it is only on the odd occasion.

Means we don't have to stick loads of heavy rugs on sooner too. Going to see how it goes with this clip, but if she starts to get too hot with it, will take it off so she just has a saddle patch on her back as a bit of fluff under her saddle.

 

[NU ABO]

Jack's got my instructor's special cross between a Irish clip and a Blanket clip, so he's got all of his neck, all of his belly and armpits clipped off and half-face, but nothing off his back-end. So he's currently in a rain sheet during the day and then I put a 100g rug/neck-rug underneath for while he's turned out at night.

He does have a 300g turnout rug for when the weather really turns and a 300g stable rug for when he starts being stabled at night.

The clip has worked for him for the past 2 years, his workload decreases over the winter, but it's still quite hard workouts when we can so if I left him fluffy he'd be a sweaty mess after a workout!

My instructor still says he's the hairiest one she clips