Whats the most rugs your horse ever wears?

[Ziggy_]

Sorry for another winter related post, but one of the liveries at the yard explained to me earlier that last winter her blanket-clipped horse was being turned out in a MW stable rug, with a HW turnout rug, and a LW turnout on top of that.
I was like

I was thinking one HW turnout rug would be fine for my TB mare - this is just daytime turnout BTW. Am I being daft or are they going OTT and I'm gonna have to put up with ''your poor horse is freezing'' all winter when their's come in sweaty?

I sound like an idiot but having come from a yard where winter turnout and clipping were both alien practises, I am a bit baffled

 

[jnet]

Are you having yours clipped or not?

 

[Ziggy_]

Yeah, a trace clip.

 

[Fattie_Hattie]

Erm hattie is fully clipped out in the winter and is turned out with a HW full neck rug and if its really cold she has a fleece underthat and then over night she has a fullneck HW stable rug with a MW stable rug and still some morning she is cold.

 

[catembi]

My ISH is fully clipped apart from legs & when it's cold he often wears a snuggys hood with a thick duvet & a FAL Goliath silver interactive turnout with full neck.

Can we stop talking about rugs cos it's making me want to buy some...

 

[chunkytfg]

H/W in winter, lightweight in spring autumn, fly rug in summer.

 

[soph21]

My cob will probably have a blanket clip this year as Im planning on hunting more regular, and he will have a HW on.

 

[JessPickle]

Pickle always has a full clip, he wears maximum one cooler + HW stable rug when in and a HW turnout without a neck. He is fine like that, for instance today in all that rain he remained rugless and infact we went for a hack!!!

 

[Gorgeous George]

George has a bib and belly clip and only ever wears one rug!

 

[ickelshadow]

when clipped and v cold (28yo) shehad a 300g medium weight and a 400g hw turnout with neck. but she was old and HATED being cold or wet

 

[Chex]

Most of the time he wears one rug, but I do sometimes double up. Usually its a fleece under a thin rug to make it slightly warmer, or when its really freezing and he gets a thin rug under his HW. I see people often putting 5 rugs on their horse, must weigh a ton!

 

[Ludi-doodi]

The first winter I had Ludo and was new to horsecare rugging etc, I think he had 3 on sometimes in the dead of winter - fleece, l/w and m-h/w! He had a blanket clip too. To be fair his stable is very big, has a high roof and the wind can blow through it something cronic! More recently, he's had full clips and a max of 2 - 100g under-rug and either a m/w or h/w depending on how cold. If really, really cold, I will pop his bed socks on too

(thermatex leg wraps). Outdoors it's Rambo supreme 420g h/w if really cold or a m/w if not. (I confess to have a rug fetish

and I have just about every weight and style of rug going so always have a choice to layer up or not!)

 

[zoeshiloh]

You really don't want to ask me this question - Ben is a complete and utter wimp when it comes to cold! He is turned out all summer with a LW jacket on - on really hot days he swaps that for his fly rug, but he never goes rugless!

In winter he is turned out in a fleece rug, an underquilt and a heavyweight TO rug. He also has a full face and neck hood thing as well! In the stable he wears a fleece, a wool rug, a horsewear underquilt, a double duvet and a heavyweight stable rug - if it is really cold he can have a few extra layers in the form of fleece rugs or quilted rugs depending on weather! He is fully clipped out in winter.

 

[Cop-Pop]

My TBx wears a HW with a neck and sometimes has her waffle cooler under that. If she's clipped she has a full neck cooler under it too. In the stable she has a duvet with a LW on top and if she's clipped she has the duvet, long neck cooler and LW on top. She doesn't really grow a winter coat though and gets cold very quickly. Ponio has a LW turnout and a LW stable rug but I'm trying to keep her winter coat at bay for showing so I might buy her a long neck cooler

 

[SpottedCat]

Pointless question - depends on the horse. My horse is v hot and I own nothing heavier than a weatherbeeta MW rug for him, and that is the most he needs even when fully clipped in the middle of winter (TBx BTW). Other horses feel the cold - mine doesn't, he's incredibly hot and prone to sweat rash.

So forget about what other people do and rug your horse according to what he needs - if the base of ears are warm and he isn't dropping condition then he is warm enough IMO.

 

[scotsmare]

I *try* and stick to just one rug unless it's utterly freezing in which case it might be two. Our problem here isn't the cold, it's the chuffing wind - totally rips the condition off them in the winter.

 

[Allykat]

My TB is a hot horse too. He'll be fully clipped in winter and will mostly have a m/w stable rug only. If its extra cold I may put a l/w underneath but when I do this my yo has to strip him off for me first thing before he starts to sweat!! He'll be out with a m/w full neck rug, but the full neck is really so I have less mud to remove!!

Cob will be fully clipped with one h/w rug with full neck in and out.

It is down to the individual horse really and I'd prefer mine to be a little colder than too warm

 

[Maisy]

my mare is fully clipped in winter, and on the bitterly cold nights will wear 3 rugs.

 

[ickelshadow]

and indoor a night usually 4 in depths ofwinter - 2 mw at 300g, a duvet and a 400g fal

snugly pony!! would swap one of the mw for a wool or thermatex rug occassionally depending on weather

 

[merlinsquest]

One.... I just buy what is the appropriate weight.... .I cant think of anything worse for the horse than all the extra straps and buckles of loads of rugs..... or how tight and restrictive it must be with loads of layers on.

 

[ISHmad]

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One.... I just buy what is the appropriate weight.... .I cant think of anything worse for the horse than all the extra straps and buckles of loads of rugs..... or how tight and restrictive it must be with loads of layers on.

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Same here.

 

[only_me]

merlin only ever gets a blanket clip,as he has such a fine winter coat anyways. in the winter he wears a LW stable rug, and a MW/HW stable rug over that, and then if he is going out then YO puts waterproof rug on top (amigo). it worked brilliantly last year!

if its really cold, i have a high necked silver HW turnout, which will just go on him.

 

[mintaka04]

I agree it depends on your ned.
Mine feels the cold and usually wears two light to middleweight rugs in the "bad winter" as I like to layer.
Now I've got a Rambo duo with an extra 100g liner, so shouldn't need to do all the double-rugging stuff.

One year I clipped her out completely but it was a pain in the tonsils as she was always cold and I had to put on even more rugs.

Ah well. It wouldn't do if we were all the same.

 

[Halfstep]

Fully clipped the most current horse ever wore was a heavy weight stable rug under his full neck heavy weight Bucas turnout. But it was -10 at night! Normally he spends all winter in the Bucas in and out and rarely needs anything under it.

 

[the watcher]

Mine only wear one at a time, but often with a sheet underneath so I can launder that frequently.

 

[Puppy]

Star - One

She is hunter clipped, and out 24/7 with a H/W rambo. I tried to put a little under rug on her when it snowed and was really cold the winter before last but it was immediately apparent that she was too hot

She likes/thrives in winter, and hates the heat in summer.

Be - One either M/W or H/W Rambo. Out 24/7 and last winter was still in work and unclipped. I would imagine I shall be working her more this year though so may have to clip her. Can't see me adding more rugs though...

I really don't understand this over rugging culture...

 

[Flint12]

This year horsey having full clip. In the coldest he will have cotton sheet, 13tog duvet and then either m/w or h/w ontop and that will be max unless i get something with a neck then that will substitute for one of the top rugs. Turnout he will have h/w then if vry cold thermatex type rug.

Dont really like te thought of loads and loads of rugs tho. I knew one horse who used to wear up to about 7-8 layers!

 

[asbo]

jay fully clipped and out during the day will go up to a fleece and hw turn out combo, if its really cold he gets a lw stable on top of the fleece, stabled at night he has the fleece with a mw and a hw combo on

 

[LauraBR]

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Pointless question - depends on the horse. My horse is v hot and I own nothing heavier than a weatherbeeta MW rug for him, and that is the most he needs even when fully clipped in the middle of winter (TBx BTW). Other horses feel the cold - mine doesn't, he's incredibly hot and prone to sweat rash.

So forget about what other people do and rug your horse according to what he needs - if the base of ears are warm and he isn't dropping condition then he is warm enough IMO.

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Totally agree and my horse is exactly the same.

Re the OP- apart from the temperature aspect I would be very concerned about the weight of a HW, MW, and LW turnout on a horses back for long periods

 

[jesterfaerie]

I am having my TB clipped this year and he will go out in his MW/HW TO but if he still gets a bit cold he will have a LW/MW stable underneath it.
In the stable he will have a LW/MW stable rug on, but wil be buying him another MW stable so he has a neck cover but unless he gets VERY cold he will only have one rug on both outside and when inside.

I have known one horse have 6-10 rugs on