AmyMay
Situation normal
Its 10 degrees where I am on the border of bucks and northants, combined with driving rain and wind and its not nice.
Didn’t get above 9 degrees here today. Driving rain and an easterly wind 💨 🥶
Its 10 degrees where I am on the border of bucks and northants, combined with driving rain and wind and its not nice.
In my view no unclipped healthy horse that has access to sufficient food and can move around to keep itself warm and has access to shelter (not necessarily inside, a hedge/tree whatever will do) needs rugging in June in the UK. In my view no unclipped healthy native pony (and especially a shetland...) that has access to sufficient food that can move around and has shelter as just described needs rugging in the UK at all. The use of turnout rugs in the summer and for natives in the winter is solely for our convenience in keeping them clean. They are not necessary for horse welfare. The horse ware industry has done a fantastic marketing job in selling us unnecessary rugs in all shapes and sizes for every eventuality year round. Rugs for mini ponies in particularly...........
A true shetland would be the first in that stable eating all the hay and not letting anyone else in! Standing in the door way looking very smug with itself!
My Arab shivers really violently when she's cold - legs shaking, flanks trembling, the works! Needless to say she had a rug on during the wet weather we've had! Although she only has a no fill as they have amazing shelter in their field. The Welsh never wears a rug because he's too hard to catch. I figure that if he was miserable, we'd know as he'd be suspiciously friendly!I'll be honest... I've never seen a shivering horse. I'd agree that shivering is horrible though, I was shivering last night.
I’ll start off the bidding . For my PSSM mare, last night I removed her 100g rug and put a 400g HW + neck cover on. The others stayed in their 100g’s. It’s still p1ssing it down this morning, so the PSSM mare may keep her HW and neck cover on during the day . That is unusual for June!Yes, I dare not tell you how thick a rug my PSSM has on. There would be a page of criticism but he is totally loose and happy. Hope your girl is OK.
You are all just experiencing a Scottish summer
You "un-ruggers" best not come to Australia Plenty of horses here are rugged in filled rugs as soon as the temperature *gasp* dips below 20C... Today will be 18C and mine are nude, but I'd say 50% of the horses at my livery will not have their rugs removed. Whilst I am vehemently against overrugging (which constitutes anywhere from 4-8 rugs on a horses here!), I choose to rug mine appropriate to the weather. We're in a drought and the wise use of rugs here help keep weight on the TB types when hay becomes scarce. I would love for mine to be out in 1000s acres with copses of trees for natural shelter, unfortunately this isn't possible and my rugs help provide shelter for the Antarctic winds we get here.
Oops didn't mean to reply to you FaracatEight rugs! How is that possible?
I didn't know you got winds like that in Australia. I always think of it as boiling hot. I saw a video clip on the internet of a koala bear in someone's garden. The man brought him some water to drink. 🤗You "un-ruggers" best not come to Australia Plenty of horses here are rugged in filled rugs as soon as the temperature *gasp* dips below 20C... Today will be 18C and mine are nude, but I'd say 50% of the horses at my livery will not have their rugs removed. Whilst I am vehemently against overrugging (which constitutes anywhere from 4-8 rugs on a horses here!), I choose to rug mine appropriate to the weather. We're in a drought and the wise use of rugs here help keep weight on the TB types when hay becomes scarce. I would love for mine to be out in 1000s acres with copses of trees for natural shelter, unfortunately this isn't possible and my rugs help provide shelter for the Antarctic winds we get here.
You are all just experiencing a Scottish summer
And an Irish one too 🙃
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