Where are your horses in terms of roughing off and rugging?

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Trying to get ours out asap really, so Badger and Caffrey are out at night with heavyweight TO and in for at day time naked. Both fully clipped, quite fat and in light work.

What are you doing with yours at the mo?
 
Mine out all day -no rugs - in at night - they were not clipped this winter as they were not in enough work.

I would have turned them out overnight with lightweights on IF we had not had the cold night on Sunday - went to 0 degrees here - and this week was forecast rain, rain and more rain !

So hopefully next week will see the boys out over night with rugs on - i will feed and take rugs off at about 6am ish and then leave them to have some sun (hopefully) and catch in for there afternoon snooze at about 2pm - they will then get ridden, groomed and go back out about 7.30 ish on the night
 
My boy is hairless, even now, wrecking my head, was hoping his hair would be nearly grown back by now, but no, still no friggin hair, i take off the rug for an hour or two every day, but so far, no luck, i think the rug is too warm, need to buy a lightweight rug, and hope for the best, as i need to move him asap, just had fields re-seeded, so he's in the arena for next week or so til i bring him to my dads til next winter. Although, if i remember correctly, it was the end of april last year before hair grew back.
 
Blanket clipped, coming out in handfuls now, and could do with losing a few pounds. Turned out overnight in either a LW (no fill) if it is cold or wet, and naked if warm and dry. He was out naked last night and it got down to just below freezing so I did feel a bit bad and put a LW on tonight!

He is in during the day and naked. As of tomorrow he'll be out 24/7, naked 24/7 unless wet or very cold.

If yours needs to lose weight then I'd reduce the rug weight - depends on your horse and how they feel the cold but I'd probably have mine in a TO with only a light fill, in your position.
 
They aren't fat fat, just look fat compared to how they'd look after a full seasons hunting which they would usually have had.

I'm not convinced by the let them shiver it off method, maybe that's a tactic fat people should take??
 
Mine is just about to switch around and go out during night and stay in during day. Fully clipped 5yo in a medium amount of work for his age. He is a good do-er and has come out of winter well, wouldn't want him to put on any more weight.

Depends on the weather as to what rugs he wears - at night either 200g or 350g rambo's, during day either naked or his lightweight bucus rug
 
One hunter clipped, one blanket clipped, both now out 24/7, naked in the day with a lightweight rain sheet at night. Hunter clipped one could do to loose a couple of pounds, hunter clipped one is spot on.
Rolling in the day is really helping the coat shift - very fluffy shedding faces particularly!!
 
Mine are now out at night. The youngster is unrugged (at most she had a lightweight this winter mainly to keep mud off/when we had the REALLY cold weather). Genie has a rainsheet at night, and is in during the day naked. Give it another week or so and the rugs will be off for good I hope, just waiting for a bit more summer coat to come through (she had a hunter clip this year).
 
Mines naked during the day with a shower proof/no fill rug if its a bit iffy and then has a 150g on over night.

Trace clip and moulting like a goodun! :D
 
He's in his fly rug for his SI and has just been in that for about 2 weeks. And for about a month before that he was in his lightweight, no fill. I'm suprised people are still putting HW's on at night, I didn't think anyone was anymore. Mind you, Fella doesn't even own a HW.
 
MIne are all out naked 24/7 (bar 2 silly tb's who shiver all their weight off so have 100g l/w on) all rest from 8months -17yrs no rugs.
2 have fully lost winter coats and the rest are looking proper moth eaten where losing winter coats in handfuls
 
In at night and out during the day. He has a medium weight on with no neck because its a new field and will reduce any damage by other horses and he's looking good weight wise and I don't want him shivering any off.
 
All mine are now out 24/7 rugless. Cobs been rugless since end of january as he has done extremly well this winter on adlib hay and just a token handfull of chaff once a day. My PBA has been rugless for two weeks and little fat welsh pony ive just brought is now aswell. she needs to burn some calories. all three of them live out 24/7 midweek and come in at weekends.

all three are moulting like mad. the cobs the worst.
 
PDTB (poor doing thoroughbred) is still in at night with a medium and out in the day with a rain sheet...
Just waiting for the grass to sort itself out, then she'll be out 24/7
 
23 yr old connie X has been out 24/7 naked since it's been dry but came in last night due to combination of rain and new horse in adjoining field (he's on individual turnout due to injury so last thing he needs to be doing is bombing about on wet slippy grass). Unless it rains really heavily he'll stay out again from tonight. He has a coat a polar bear would be proud of and it's coming out in handfuls!!

6 yr old tb x sec D is out 24/7 in a lightweight (most of his field buddies are naked but he didn't winter out with his previous owners so am being gentle on him as he doesn't have much coat). Has been maintaining his weight though (was worried he would lose weight since I bought him 3 weeks ago but he hasn't). Will put MW on him if it goes any colder again.
 
Broodmare, aged 20, in foal 3/4tb out 24/7 and now rugless. Tough old boot, but the other 25% is AQH so her winter coat is designed to combat a blizzard in Nebraska.
 
Ours were turned out 24/7 from last Sunday. They have been naked during the day and rugged at night. My trace clipped mare (clipped almost grown out) is in medium weight rug (shes a little fat for my liking).My friends fat,hairy ID is in a heavy weight combo :eek: (a bit over kill imo).
Mine is on small handful of good doer and the other horse is still on a huge feed and hay :). Everyone likes to things diffrently I guess. We separate them at feeding times.
 
Mine is out during the day and in at night. We've been allowed 24 hr turnout for two weeks now so a lot are already out but mine is laminitic so I have to be careful. Also she didn't really go out all winter due to demanding to come straight back in again so she needs to get used to being out (which she likes now there is grass!)
I haven't rugged all winter. She was only bib clipped so I didn't see the point. I'd rather heat her with hay than with rugs and she never felt cold, even when it was well below freezing.
Workwise - well this week we did a three and a half hour hack yesterday, jumping tonight, dressage lesson tomorrow, going to a jumping show to play at clear rounds on Friday, and going cross country on Sunday. So she's fairly fit and busy, and certainly not too fat!
 
Out 24/7, as they have been all winter. My competition horse has a trace clip & has an spring-weight rug on, the veteran pony has no clip and no rug, and the shetland believe it or not has a hunter clip and is therefore rugged (dont ask - she gets so hairy over the winter and is so absolutely filthy, its healthier to clip her, she loves it)!
 
Been out 24/7 since Sunday. Would have been earlier but old yard wouldn't allow. New one much more sensible!
Both my TB and friends welsh cross are naked in day unless its forecast to tip it down (like today!) and in light or medium weight at night. They are having token evening feed to get supps in.
They are both in a fatty paddock which has been grazed all winter as welsh blossoms rather on this grazing. TB is a good doer so not worried about lack of grass. He's obviously already full enough to not be too bothered about a feed!
Both are in light work. Welsh had full clip and is starting to dapple up nicely and show some summer coat. TB wasn't clipped and had been malting for what seems like months! Neck are shoulders are summer silky and the rest is a mess!:D
 
Out during the day in a no fill rug and in at night in a 100g stable rug. He seems snug in that. He has a very short coat already.

Although today is raining and quite cold, I'm wondering if he should have had his 200g on! The no fill is rubbish - not exactly waterproof! Oh well, he will be dried off and warmed up tonight when he comes in :)
 
Mine are out rugless today hiding in the field shelter cos its raining. The do make me laugh all 5 of them huddle together! its 13 degrees but the first hint of rain and they make a mad dash for it!
Out at night (if not raining) with LW rugs on and plenty of hay.
 
My Grey girl is like a dandilion , you just need to blow on her and white fluff goes everywhere! Light weight TO at night still but little one is rugless full time as keeps sweating up a bit between the legs
 
My two are both out at night as of last week. Both unclipped. The TB's in a fly rug/LW in day and HW at night and ID's naked in day and a LW at night.
 
Been out most of the winter (came in at night during the snow) but now he's in for a few hours in the day to get some hay into him and hard feed (he's working hard at the moment) and he's out at night with medium rug on because I've had to give him more of a clip that I usually would, again because of the amount of work he's doing.
 
Starbucks said:
They aren't fat fat, just look fat compared to how they'd look after a full seasons hunting which they would usually have had.

I'm not convinced by the let them shiver it off method, maybe that's a tactic fat people should take??
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Maybe indeed.

Look at it this way, if a horse is too cold, it can move to warm up. Moving uses more energy. If a horse is too hot because it has a huge great big rug on, do you you think it's likely to move around so much? It can't escape the warmth unless it learns to take it's rug off!

It's quite mild where I am despite the rain, so my RID is out naked and has been for weeks. He does come in at night, but only because the YO says they have to for another month.
 
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