Settle a argument for me please

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Would you or would you not.

So my yard has a hot horse shower, me and a friend use it to shower off our sweaty horse after being ridden then chuck on there stable rugs and leave them to dry under them. I do sometimes stick a fleece on for 20 mins them put his stable rug on but he is still damp.

Our other two friends don't as the think its a shame and they will get cold and stay damp but we think they will dry out and dry out the inside of the stable rug too.

We argue about who is right and who is wrong.

What are your thoughts..???

Do you think the horses must get cold and it's a shame..???
 
Shymum not quite sure what you mean.

I mean wash the horse with the shower then stick a stable rug on them and leave them, so they are wet when you put the rug on.

As for breathable I'm not sure , I'd think not , just your normal bog standard stable rug

And why would you not do it..??

Thanks ;-)
 
You're asking HHO to SETTLE an argument???

Saying that, I agree with the above. Wet horse = cooler/fleece/thermatex until dry THEN stable rug


ETS: the reason being that a standard non-breathable stable rug will keep the moisture on the horse while a cooler will "wick" the moisture away from your horse to the surface of the rug (you can actually feel that the fleece is damp on the outside but not the inside near horse's skin)
 
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Ludoctro said:
And why would you not do it..??

Thanks ;-)
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I wouldn't do it because there is only one place for the water to go and that is to soak into the rug.

Put it another way .... if you'd left your rug outside and it got wet, would you put it on your horse :confused:?
 
If you just put a normal stable rug on, with no wicking properties horse won't dry properly. If you stuck a thermatex or similar then it would wick away the moisture. Bucas do rugs which can be put on wet horse and I bought a stable rug for precisely that reason.
 
Ha ha GLW yeah I guess that does sound rather like a stupid idea. ;-)

You all say no you would not, but what is the reason..???

I'd never had access to a hot show untill I was on a competition yard, where they did it to all the horses after being ridden, so then I started doing it to as they said it was ashame to leave them sweaty, this is clipped horses btw, but you know the sweaty marks they still get around girth and under saddle, that's what I'm talking about, my boy has a blanket so his under saddle area does get quite sweaty.
 
How long is the stable rug on for?

It would be like getting out the shower and wrapping yourself in your duvet and going to bed compared to a towel then a duvet :D

If you swap it for another stable rug after an hour then fine but if your leave it all night I don't think that's very good.
 
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Wet horse + stable rug = wet horse + wet stable rug.

Wet horse + fleece/thermatex = dry horse + slightly damp fleece/thermatex due to wicking away moisture.

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Agree that if your horse is often getting hot/sweaty after work a nice clip and a big stable rug would make your life easier and your horse more comfortable.
 
Are these horses clipped?

I would not put a stable rug on top of a wet horse. Would you put clothes on after a shower without drying yourself first? Your clothes would get wet and you'd be uncomfortable - moisture would be trapped inside the fabric.

I'd put on a fleece cooler until horse was dry (or near as damnit) and then put other rugs on.

If horses were getting sweaty after a normal schooling session I would clip - at least clipped horses dry very quickly if they get wet.
 
What's the difference to leaving wet outdoor rugs on them to dry..?? Do any of you do that.? All the yards I been on do that.

No just one stable rug not changing it.

I will looking into that bucas stable rug I think because, waiting for him to dry takes too long, I stuck a fleece on tonight but after 1 hour he was still damp underneath it.
 
Does this sound a bit like an earlier thread? Its just i cant imagine any responsible horse owner even considering putting a stable rug on a wet horse in winter, esp after exercise.
 
Horses are all clipped.

Ok thanks looks like they are right (my other two mates) and me and the other wrong.

Think I will buy that bucas rug , as I don't have a hour or so to wait for him to dry and I really hate leaving him all sweaty with sweat marks all under his girth and on his back.
 
No idea what earlier thread your on about..??? But then I've not trawled through pages of threads.

It's was a simple question looking for a simple answer which I have now gotten..!!!
 
My pony lives out and is currently unclipped (may consider a clip) Anyway, I always leave myself enough time after riding to dry him properly. A good fleece will wick the moisture away pretty quickly if you get it on while the horse is still warm. I love watching the water appear on the outside of the fleece! Anyway, leave him and hour and then turn him out naked where he rolls in the mud anyway!!

I dont stable, but I wouldn't put a rug on a wet horse unless it was a last resort. xx
 
Our pony club put out an information brochure on this, and they did say it was ok to put a dry rug on a wet horse, never a wet rug on a dry horse.

I have tried this from time to time...if I was stabling a horse and doing this regularly, I would not hose off a horse, just sponge off the sweat with a bucket and sponge, sweat scrape, /and towel the wet patch (saddle area?). Then I might pop a rug under stable rug, and remove it a few hours later.

However, I have had to wash the horses when the weather is not so good and there has been a pc event the next day, i have found that, the horses do not dry out well under a synthetic rug, they are better with a canvas rug. If I use a very abosrbent under rug, and remove or change it after 2-3 hours with a breathable over rug, this gets the horse dry. There are absorbent rugs you can buy that soak up the wet, but if I do not have a spare one, I use towels/hessian sacking/or fleece rugs. (sometimes towels or sacking and fleece rugs).

I certainly don'y do it often, maybe 3-4 times a year, we might get caught out. A long time ago I used to use straw, but have not done this for a while.
 
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Horses are all clipped.

Ok thanks looks like they are right (my other two mates) and me and the other wrong.

Think I will buy that bucas rug , as I don't have a hour or so to wait for him to dry and I really hate leaving him all sweaty with sweat marks all under his girth and on his back.
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Could you not just sponge him off with a damp sponge? He would dry much quicker than a full on shower if you did that.
 
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