Still ruggin in mid June for goodness sake!

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Isn't it the longest day tomorrow? I am still rugging my lad in a rainsheet at the moment and in fact I am keeping him in a fair bit too because of the rotton weather. I can't believe I have MUD again so soon. Is anyone else rugging/stabling etc?
 
Nearly brought the girl in last night, as lightening was getting a bit close, but in the end it just missed us, so I left her out. Haven't been rugging for a while.
 
Clipped our donkey a couple of weeks ago, as he had a huge woolly coat and was suffering in the heat. Last Thursday morning he was shaking with cold ( we have a very cosy field shelter which he was in), I felt awful! Cue a frantic search for a tiny rug for him. He is now sporting a very smart 4'3" foal rug. I just can't believe this weather, it was baking hot this morning , now have just had a downpour with thunder again. Kept horse and pony in from about 6 to 11 last night whilst we had huge storm, stayed up to turn them out when it had calmed down. They are both wearing rain turnouts at night.
 
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mine come in everyday due to their waistlines and flys and then are chucked out every evening not matter what weather doing. So long as warm (temp), they have grass (which theydo) and have treeshedgeline to stand under, i'm not even thinking about rugs until Sept.
Mine are muddy every morning keeps them warm
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mine are sporting LW turnouts, due to the fact the weather is unpredicatable and they are woosie TB's .

oh and they just *hate* getting wet!!
 
The lot at my yard have rugs on at night if it's meant to pour down, but are usually out without (they're in during the day and out at night). Mine is being roughed off ready for her year bumming around in a field, and so she's not had a rug on for about a month now. TBH considering she was such a wuss in autumn last year, she's surprisingly hardy now! I bathed her in the wind this morning (she really, really needed it) and was wondering whether to go back on myself and stick a cooler sheet on her. I felt her ears and they were boiling still! She never seems to be cold, not even when she's been out in the rain (first time in a very long time). Makes me wonder why I was putting 370g rugs with neck covers on overnight only 4 months ago!
 
Mine are in lw turnouts in the rain and fly sheets when its dry. They still have sheets on in the stable at night.
 
So much for midsummer! Last Thursday night, our temp dropped to 3degrees. My boy has been out 24-7 since the beginning of June and has a LW on at night if temp drops below 6-7 degrees. Fortunately recent rainy spell has passed us by but still not very summery. Average daytime temp is 12degrees and 8-9degrees overnight. Min is a wuss if he gets wet/so has rainsheet on if there's as much as a hint of rain but copes with temp fluctuations pretty well. If we get prolonged rain then he prefers to come in and sit it out in a nice cosy stable, despite having good natural shelter in his field. Did not expect to be still using his LW at this time of year, tho.
 
i put rugs on as the old TB mare was shivering so hard the other day her edges were blurred
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but im trying to leave them off, it was peeing it down at 5 am this morning and i wondered about putting rugs on but glad i didnt because its boiling now
 
mine had a woosie stage and had to come for a night and have her light weight rug on. went down the other day to brong her in for an hour to dry off and have a rug on and by the time i went back up it was boiling so put her out without. brought her in again for a few hours the other day and she nearly knocked the door down so YO turned her back out for me. thought she'd be freezing but her ears and nose is warm everyday so stopped worrying about her now and leave her all muddy and warm!
 
My are without rugs - but only the last three weeks when the night temp has been above 10 - their field does not offer any real protection from wind and rain, so they had been wearing rain sheets at night.

We have lovely sticky mud and I am hoping it will dry up soon before the summer field starts to look tatty.
 
Ive got the opposite problem! It was a sweaty 32 degrees today (in the shade). Mine have been undressed since January and probably wont see a rug till November. I hate the heat
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. M. Ps, we are supposed to reach 40 in the next few days!!!!!!!!!
 
I used to rug my arab all year round when I was in the UK. I'd be watching the weather like a hawk. He had such a thin coat that a sudden downpour in the middle of the night would mean I'd find him hunched up, tucked up, shaking like a leaf, with every hair on his body standing on end in the morning. He was just one of those horses that really, genuinely, felt the cold, despite a layer of summer fat.

Stabling, yes. Somedays when the bugs are really bad they come in for the day.
Mud.......no. No rain either for weeks apart from yesterdays half hour deluge which soaked right in.
 
Getting fed up with having rugs on! It just seems to be getting milder when suddenly its back to being freezing and chucking it down
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. Chex field pal has dropped her weight already, and I have been keeping her rug on when its wet
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