What Clip? And what clip are you using this year?

[jules89]

last year zeb had a full hunter, as he is in hard full time work, but he resembled a skinned cat, and looked halarious
I am just thinking of clips that dont make him look ridiculous. I am not a fan of some clips, dont ask why, its purely a beauty thing!

I like the hunter clip cos I can do an emblem on his bottom!

what's everyone else clipping this year?

 

[AutumnRose]

I was just thinking about this yesterday!! I think T will have a blanket, i like this clip and think itll be enough for her as she'll mostly be dresasging and she doesn't get very sweaty anyways.
Blue i'm not su sure about but i think i may go with a hunter. Being chunkier i think he'll be hairier and will be in harder work as will bsja and hunt too.

Ugh i hate clipping

 

[Lill]

Um ALL off apart from half his face this weekend (or next), and then the next lot of clips i do through the winter will be blanket clips but the bits left on hopefully won't be so thick as i'm taking it all off first if you get what i mean?

 

[Heidi1]

Two of my girls will be hunter clipped and the otherone will have a high blanket clip. All will be hunting and hopefully bit of jumping and dressage.

 

[cheekycharley]

Im just about to go and clip mine!!!! She is soooo fluffy! She will have all her body clipped leaving a saddle patch and her legs, half her face etc Im not sure of the proper name!!!

I was going to clip her in the summer for shipton but she had a splint..... then i was going to clip her for cleobury, then monmouth now i am going sjing on sun fingers crossed!

 

[KatB]

Mine was clipped yesterday, he has a full clip, everything except legs!!

 

[jules89]

I dont know when to clip! hes only just going fluffy so at least I can put it off for a while, and not sure how to go about doing his head, I left it last year because I was fed up with clipping, and he looked really odd because he was light chestnut everywhere then had a big dark fluffy head! it was so funny - how do you go around the headcollar?! arghhh im being so blonde

 

[Eira]

Sol will be having a bandit clip with either a welsh dragon / shamrock or if she'll stand still she'll have fight the ban clipped in

Like maric had last year

 

[Baileyhoss]

I'm lucky with b, his coat doesn't get too fluffly. He will have a blanket in late October/November, then in January it'll all come off (bar half his head & his legs), that way I don't have to groom it out all spring

 

[cheekycharley]

I take my horses headcollar off and put it around her neck and then do under her head and her cheeks.

 

[seche]

When mine eventually grow enough coat - Hunters all round! - face off, leaving legs and a large gel pad shape - I like to leave the back quite long, as keeps kidneys warmer out hunting!!

No snazzy pictures for me anymore im not on a pony.

plus want to do some WH classes and not sure would go down well!
Though did used to have FTB on each side with a star....
(Fight the Ban)

 

[jules89]

Im tempted to try and still do a picture underneath the blanket line on his bum if i can fit it in, and if I can get away with it!

 

[Bossanova]

I dont clip Moon, she lives out and it makes more sense to winter her wooly

I will regret this decision from time to time but I'm sticking by it!!

 

[jules89]

lol unfortunately zeb likes to mud bathe, he will be disgusting if i didnt clip him and he rolled in his mud patch! especially as he likes the knee deep, puddly, squeltchy mud...

 

[SSM]

Donkey is rugged to eyeballs to keep her native winter coat at bay for one more week and two days when she has her last show - think I might be fighting a losing battle - then it will be all except legs off (and face because she won't let me

)

 

[ernikins]

All off except for saddle patch and legs - my supposed TB has a native pony coat and gets fluffy 'ewok' style ears so the face has to come off - looks soooo much smarter!!!

 

[Quarrybank]

Quinn will have a hunter, so just leave legs, front of face & saddle patch, as he gets really, really hairy. I'm hoping I wont have to do the first one for 2 weeks, but he's getting fairly fluffy already

Spider will also have a hunter, but I will also take his legs off. The last 2 years he's had from stifle to wither forwards off & each spring I have cursed the amount of white hair he shed. It got everywhere

I will just leave the front of his head & a saddle patch. However he's grown hardly any coat yet, so I might get another month before he'll need doing

 

[Weezy]

Have been debating this. P didn't winter very well last year, I struggled to keep weight on, so I think I will start with a blanket and then clip the lot off in Jan/Feb. This is subject to change, I prefer to clip out completely.

 

[DottyConnection]

Any tips on keeping a very nervous horse happy whilst being clipped? I refuse to ACP because it just dulls their senses and she's not particularly dangerous. She got better last year (although I had to clip over the space of three days) but didn't respond to twitching. I use extra quiet avalon clippers but am hoping to take her head off this year and have no clue about how to do it and keep her happy. Any suggestions would be much appreciated x

 

[CrazyMare]

Sedation, twitch, then speed clip everything bar legs and face. Rug up well and I get away with only clipping twice.

 

[Weezy]

IF she didn't respond to twitching then, quite possibly, the twitch wasn't on correctly or tight enough - you should have had SOME sort of response! Sedalin and 2 people clipping, one either side, and get on with it ASAP

 

[madhector]

I tend to give J a full clip as he gets sweat bumps so makes it easier to keep him clean. I take off everything, legs head, ears and body

I dont tend to clip this early though but he looks a bit fluffy so tempted to get the clippers out...

The others tend to just have blanket clips as they arent in so much work, anything hunting though gets a full clip

 

[only_me]

probably a blanket clip, to try and keep his back and kidneys as warm as possible

and because he looses all his winter coat in feb, and dosent really get much of a winter coat