To all you Tb owners,, advise please :)

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Hi all,
I have owned my tb mare for 5 months now, want some advise on what rugs you all rug your tbs in for winter, she will be in during the night cuz she is a bit of a wimp and I don't have the grazing for her to be out all winter...I want something that she will be nice and warm in but I don't want to spend to many of these £££ lol if you could all just throw me some names of rugs and their infill that your horses all seem to wear would be much appreciated, it's my first year owning a full tb horse and want to make sure she's gunna be happy ad warm in the freezing cold. I don't want her in her stable 24/7 :( Getting ready for winter already.... :S
 
Have a look at something like a Rambo Duo - which has interchangerable liners, which are different weights.

Premier equine also do an excellent range of similar rugs.
 
Hello!! Welcome to TB ownership! :D

I have personally found Axiom rugs (found on eBay), a very good deal. They are fairly cheap, but great quality! My rug trasher had it for 3 winters (a record for rug durability!!). When it got colder, I would just stick a fleece underneath. She lives out all year round (box walker), blanket clip in the winter and she did fine with this combo. Good luck with pony!
 
My tb has weatherbeeta rugs. She has quite stocky front shoulders (sorry I don't know my horsey body parts :p) and they fit her nicely. Depends a lot on weather you've got a real fine-boned tb or one with a bit of bone!
 
The best rug I ahve ever bought for ym mare was a joules weatherbeeta, med combo.
It seems very thin when you feel the thickness of the rug but it is so insulated!! It keeps her just right! In very cold weather it keeps her lovely and toasty, and when it is a bit warmer it doesn't boil her! They also fit my mare very well in all places with no rubbing of shoulders etc!

They aren't what I would call "cheap" but I would 100% buy another one! :)
 
premier equine rugs seem to keep them nice and toasty in the winter!

All TB's are different, some are pretty hardy and others just plain wimps, some may get very hot others cold in summer!

You have said that you are stabling at night so I imagine your horse will be fine in just a heavy premier equine even on the coldest day and a nice thick cosy stable rug at night!
 
One is quite a good doer & doesn't really get hot or cold so he has a l/w stable rug, m/w masta 170g stable rug, a 200g under rug & a 380 weatherbeeta.. He spends cold-really cold nights mostly with his 200g under rug with whatever weight stable rig I think he needs depending on weather over the top. Turn out he spends most of winter in a 200g combo but he's unclipped.. Then 200g standard neck on cold but sunny days & then if absolutely freezing like once in a blue moon he has a heavy fal with detachable neck. The mare feels the cold & her heaviest is a 400g.
 
I use a WB full neck under rug as a base,depending on temp mine wears a 300g or 400g quilted rug on top(tredstep or WB) if it's warmish he has the neck of the under rug turned back. If really cold he has a fleece in between the under rug & top rug. My main turn out tug is a full neck PE rug & when it's cold he has the under rug left on under the turn out. This is for mid winter when fully clipped. In spring or autumn I layer according to temps & what clip he has. Mines a poor doer who feels the cold if not rugged enough but also will over heat quickly if too many on! I adjust layers from day to day according to the weather.
 
premier equine, great rugs :) and good value for money. I have them in all various weights for some obscure reason! *cough rug addiction*, but if starting from scratch with a new horse I would buy their rain sheet, 100g liner, 200g turnout rug, and 200g liner: this would enable you to use the 100g under rainsheet for a lightweight for autumnal weather, then move up to the 200g rug which could then have the 100g under it to create a 300g, or the 200g liner to create a 400g. They also do 350g liners if your horse needs extra warmth. They have various rugs from rainsheets up to heavyweights to buy but I reckon this would be one of the cheaper ways of doing it, and as a bonus because of the liner system if in winter the 200g rug needed a wash/ a day to dry off etc/ repair, you could use the heavier liners to make the rainsheet up warm as a temporary but secure replacement. The liners are also easily washable in a standard washing machine, so we wash them much more regularly than traditional rugs which would have had to send out to have washed at more cost.

Can you tell I'm a fan? :). The rugs also fit all of my different horses well, and are lasting well for my lot. One extra tip is whilst the neck lengths on premier equines are far more generous than most makes, if your horse has a particularly long neck in proportion to its body, you can buy the neck in a size up from the rug to create the perfect fit :). The elasticated neck ends are also a godsend at not allowing rain down :).

I buy my flysheets from other brands because I like full bellies on them, but for stable and turnouts premier equine is now the only brand I buy and am slowly replacing all my rugs with them.
 
Always had wetherbeetavrugs on my girl as find they fit best, layers are best and I've found that the full Lycra body suits really keep them toasty!
 
A fleece, a duvet and an old style MW quilted Shires rug kept my fully clipped out TB toasty last winter - total cost £50 :)
 
My TB for winter has an amigo insulator, newmarket stable rug, a horeware orginal stable rug, three fleeces. He has a rambo turnout rug and an amigo turnout rug. I dont like rugs with necks as it ruins their manes. For winter I layer it up so if it is freezing I will put in the insulator, the orginal and if it is just a normal winter night I will put a stable rug and fleece on.
 
Broke_But_Happy said:
A fleece, a duvet and an old style MW quilted Shires rug kept my fully clipped out TB toasty last winter - total cost £50 :)
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I can get cheap duvets from a supplier, probably a stupid question but could you tell me how you make sure they wont fall off, my TB loves rolling!
I currently have weatherbeetas as they fit well and are pretty tough, I tend to layer and take off/put on as the weather changes...I am lucky enough to have my horses at the end of the garden so can keep a close eye on the weather.
 
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