What colour rug does your horse have?

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Do you try to co-ordinate your rug colour with the rest of your horses clothing, ie. boots, numnah etc.

Would you like to see a better range of colours for your horsey?

ooooh and is your grooming kit colour co-ordinated too? :D
 
Puzzle's rugs are either blue or red, her grooming kit is pink as it was bits we had left over (although its now going to be navy blue as my lovely SS bought me a gorgeous brush that matches all of puzzles other stuff!). But mostly, cos shes 17months, she wears whatever I can get my hands on!!

When shes older I will pick a colour scheme - and its probably going to be navy blue and red!
 
I have a different coordinated set of rugs for each day of the week :).
I also coordinate my outfit to the horses numnah/bandages etc.
I'm thinking of growing my hair long so I can also have colour coordinated bunches, what do you think :p:D?

Grooming kit .... not coordinated at all, just odds and sods I've picked up over the years.
 
Nope :(, she looks nice in red but for shows it has to match!!! and be white :p thats the only time she does match :p
nothing really matches, headcollers and leadropes do thats it really
i dont really want to pay extra for a rug just so i can get blue or whatever, she gets whats shes given ;)
 
By sheer coincidence all of my turnout rugs for my three are navy (as it's a fairly standard colour), but all three of my horses are bay, it all looks like it's on purpose! People actually comment that I coordinate them - but I don't -it's just coincidence!!! If any of them ever saw me trudging off to a comp looking like the most mis-mathced thing ever they'd believe me!!
 
Oh my, everybody is giving serious answers :eek:.

Sorry Twanks, my tongue was firmly in my cheek when I answered :o:D.
I hereby promise to take your threads more seriously in the near future :rolleyes::cool::D:D
 
saddo here - each one of mine has colour coded feed & water buckets, grooming kit, haynets etc etc - it helps when others (like my OH) come in to do the yard if am sick or away, as long as they turn out leaving the headcollar on that is outside their stable..... they can at least return them to same stable later & give correct amount of hay/feed too :)
eg: if they catch the bay with a purple headcollar, he goes in the box with purple buckets, the dun with the red headcollar goes in the box with red buckets etc etc :D
 
I currently have 3 ponies in pink rugs, 3 in blue, one in black and one in purple :) My yearling filly, Izzy, is in a pink one, I guess she will have grown out of that rug by next winter but I still have my Forester's rug from when she was a yearling that I think will fit Izzy. That's green. Harold, my colt foal, is in blue this winter, he will have grown out of that by next winter and will no doubt be the same size that Izzy is now. So the question will be do I buy him a new rug or do I embarrass him by turning him out in Izzy's old pink rug :o :D
 
I used to when I was younger (under 16) and each horse had their own colours. Now I try to only buy Wetherbeeta as they fit him the best but they're all such random colours, so no - he doesn't match at all. In fact he probably clashes a fair bit but he doesn't mind!
 
Most of my rugs are navy or green, but have a red one and a cow print one just to keep people on their toes :p. Grooming kit, lead rope and xc colours all match - light blue/navy and most other things are blue... :D
 
quirky said:
Oh my, everybody is giving serious answers :eek:.

Sorry Twanks, my tongue was firmly in my cheek when I answered :o:D.
I hereby promise to take your threads more seriously in the near future :rolleyes::cool::D:D
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same here - i clicked on this thread thinking i'd have a good laugh at the comedy answers and they're all (well, nearly all....!;)) serious!!!!!:eek::eek:
 
Dame Twankey said:
Do you try to co-ordinate your rug colour with the rest of your horses clothing, ie. boots, numnah etc.

Would you like to see a better range of colours for your horsey?

ooooh and is your grooming kit colour co-ordinated too? :D
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I don't start off co-ordinated but I find that after a few weeks each horse's kit is co-ordinated - with itself and with all the others. Sort of shite-brown. My grooming kit matches too, until I put it in the dishwasher to clean it up.

I don't wash the fabric items as I can't bear to go back to the mis-matched look.

ps my car and lorry are also colour-matched with the horses:D
 
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Dame Twankey said:
Do you try to co-ordinate your rug colour with the rest of your horses clothing, ie. boots, numnah etc.Good grief, No! Why? The horses don't care any more than I do

Would you like to see a better range of colours for your horsey?I am such a philistine, I couldn't care less what colour my blankets are. If I sold blankets though I'd sell whatever frippery people wanted most, if that was bright and gaudy then that's what I'd sell:)

ooooh and is your grooming kit colour co-ordinated too? :DHeck no! Multi-coloured, depending on what I happen to need to replace at the time. I like the kids kits though as I have small hands, so I suppose most of mine is pink, purple, sparkly or blue, whatever comes to hand in the sale bins
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I have blankets in a variety of sizes, no horse has a particular one, can't be faffing about with all that. If a horse needs a blanket then I rifle through the stack and find something that fits, my yellow horse is frequently to be seen in a clashing purple blanket, very unmacho, but then, so, coincidentally, is he;)
 
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*hic* said:
I don't start off co-ordinated but I find that after a few weeks each horse's kit is co-ordinated - with itself and with all the others. Sort of shite-brown. My grooming kit matches too, until I put it in the dishwasher to clean it up.

I don't wash the fabric items as I can't bear to go back to the mis-matched look.

ps my car and lorry are also colour-matched with the horses:D
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Oi, why did it blank out my *****e and not yours???? :(

My car is colour coordinated too, inside and out :D
 
nativeponies said:
Bu*ger Off and don't be so nosey
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ROFL!

Oh, NP - I have missed reading your flowery prose :D but the tan suits you.

Actually, I bet all yours are pink for girlie ponys and blue for boy ones and have their names picked out in diamante....

I'm right, aren't I! I bet I am......:p
 
All rugs are pooh/mud colour by the end of week one, but I have learnt to buy headcollar ropes, buckets and whips in red if poss because they are easiest to see if left/dropped in the field.
Really interesting thread by the way - well done - just had to reply!;)
 
The Xmas Furry said:
saddo here - each one of mine has colour coded feed & water buckets, grooming kit, haynets etc etc - it helps when others (like my OH) come in to do the yard if am sick or away, as long as they turn out leaving the headcollar on that is outside their stable..... they can at least return them to same stable later & give correct amount of hay/feed too :)
eg: if they catch the bay with a purple headcollar, he goes in the box with purple buckets, the dun with the red headcollar goes in the box with red buckets etc etc :D
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Oh I am so glad I am not the only one, mine all have colour co-ordinated haynets and buckets too, and for exactly the same reason, OH 'claims' he cannot tell the difference between the horses either, so every time I am away, I write the same list of names against the same bleddy colours :mad: I have not yet co-ordinated the headcollars.

Rugs are mostly mud coloured at the moment :)
 
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