who does'nt clip/does clip and why

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I don't with my two because we slow down in the winter, just walk odd trot on hacks, no school etc so can only hack at weekends weather permitting, so I dont rug and just makes winter easier all round... so do you clip and workout as normal or leave them au naturel and take winter in the slow lane
 
Don't clip!

First year my 16year old, 13.2 gelding is in the UK (I'm from France originally and had him there until May this year but eventually managed to save enough money to have him brought here!)
Never been clipped in France, out 24/7 all year around with shelter there and no rug, trying to do the same here and working at the moment!:-)
I bought 2 rugs, lightweight and medium weight one though in case of emergency as the weather is a lot more rainy here! (haven't used them yet)
In winter, only hacking him 3 times a week (around 2 hours) as it's dark after work so no need to clip!
 
i've got two arabs, that live out all year around. my mare has a blanket clip, she is a very hot horse and would literally be covered in sweat from a thirty-minute walk-trot hack around the block. my gelding is unclipped as he feels the cold and doesn't really grow a thick coat. both are in light to medium, with about four days hacking of about an hour - two hours, mixed with some schooling on the other days and the odd lesson or clinic.
 
I blanket clip my boy as he competes up to Oct/Nov and then start again late Jan and he is just so sweaty from even a short light hack. As I work him in an evening dont really think its fair to leave him all hot and bothered in the chilly nights! He's currently in a very old middle weight and old light weight (300g combined but probably less now as they are soo old) at night and a 360 ish combo in the day (very poor grazing and exposed field) he's fine.
 
Fully clipped. Can't do any work with her without clipping (sweats on walking hacks as will NOT walk, wants to canter lots!), and its downright cruel to hunt a horse without clipping it.

She feels the cold, but her bear suit stops her doing any work at all. Blanket clip is not enough, so she gets lots of food, lots of rugs, and doesn't have to go out if she doesn't want.
 
Gave my horse a trace clip this winter just to see how he was to clip ;0), he's only just five and is only in light work but he's grey and it is easier to clean the clipped areas.
 
I have to keep Jasper clipped all year round! He's just SO hairy and gets ridiculously sweaty when ridden otherwise. His summer coat is nearly as thick as one of the TB's at the yard's winter coat! In summer he has everything off except his legs. In winter he has a blanket-type clip that goes diagonally from his withers to his stifle.
 
I clip my girl because she sweats up when ridden as she's in a fair amount of work (she says when Lacey has been ridden 2 times this week because arena is frozen and roads are like ice rinks!)

I start with an irish clip (which means if weather turns warmer like it did this year she can still go naked if it's warm) and then give her a blanket type when she needs to be reclipped (she's got a blanket now).

Unless I suddenly start heavily hunting her or turn her into a racehorse she won't be getting a full clip ;)
 
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Titch - yearling - obviously not clipped although in the summer she has her feather off and jowel done for showing.

Genie - Ridden 6 days a week all year round. She gets the most immense winter coat so she has a hunter clip, otherwise you cannot do anything more than walk her for 20 minutes which is not practical.
 
mine aren't clipped yet as aren't sweating with current workload.

Millie is hacking for 1.5-2hours about 3x a week and schooling 2 x week for around 40 minutes.
She has a very thick winter coat but isn't a very hot horse so very rarely more than damp under girth area.

Vinnie is hacking about 3 x a week for around an hour and getting more hot than Millie but not enough to justify clipping.

does make me giggle a bit when i see all of the horses who are working so hard they HAVE to be fully clipped and then watch the racing on C4 and a lot of the racehorses only have high traces :)
 
CrazyMare said:
and its downright cruel to hunt a horse without clipping it.
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Surely that depends on the horse though? Our boy has a fine winter coat, and we were told by previous owners that he needed sedation to be clipped, so we decided to not to clip him this year. He has hunted twice so far this season and been absolutely fine - justs means a bit more care is needed cooling him down. Also, as he has a placid temperament he doesn't lather up as much as some of the more excitable types!
 
I would usually have fully clipped my boy as he has the same routine year round. He was worked 6 days a week for an hr each day so he needed it. But when he was 4 he only got a low trace as he wasnt doing much, so depends in circumstances and horse really.
 
i have two unclipped arabs - they live out and aren't worked much in winter. the little work they do doesnt' sweat them up and if it does they can come in and dry off.
I ride another horse who we've given a short chaser - part of me wishes it was a trace or hunter tbh but due to circumstances didn't see it as fair. She was sweating up in walk/trot for 30mins and now i can work her for 30-40mins without her sweating up. really hard work she gets very hot and sweaty but has a stable should that happen. she is in a field where she gets very wet/muddy on her belly so the girth area was never clean - now its clipped its easy to brush down - no girth rubs!
 
I used to clip my cob out fully, but once we got our own land a few years ago, I was able to keep him out 24/7, and since then the clipping has been less and less! He hasn't been clipped at all this year, I was planning to give him a bib and extend it back to just behind the girth as he's getting very sweaty on our walk and trot hacks, but now the weather is icy I may well not bother until the end of February, when he'll have a chaser. He's out in a Weatherbeeta full neck with just 100g of fill.
 
Charlie is unclipped and living out 24/7. He can get sweaty when worked but I always allow enough time for him to cool down before re-rugging. He is currently in a h/w turnout and coping very well, so far for his first winter out
 
mine are clipped, cos they work.... hunt fun rides bloodhounding. the happy hackers are part clipped to keep them comfortable and to be able to re rug them. a couple are clipped cos they get too hot and itchy if left in full fur!! each to their own. no one is right no one is wrong. it is up to the individual horse, his health, his work and his living environment and his diet and ability to maintain his ideal weight.
 
Mine are clipped out totally, nothing at all left on and are in hard full time work! be it lunging long reining riding etc the do at least an hour daily so the clip is needed.
 
Don't clip. Rosie doesn't do loads and loads of work, especially not in winter. She doesn't tend to sweat a lot either, despite looking like a woolly mammoth at present!
 
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