Who else is cruel....

Me! I do put a rain sheet on if it's really wet though, these fragile desert creatures aren't designed to get wet (she's an arab*)

*she has never, ever, seen the desert.
 
Only the minis and the foals are unrugged, they all have coats like yetis and it isn't so cold just yet.

Everything else is, lazy winds today with a wind chill of -9C, I'd rather not feed the weather, so, blankets it is.
 
Me! My little NFxCob has a lovely thick coat and seems perfectly happy without a rug even though I felt a bit mean leaving her without tonight - friend told me I was being silly worrying and that she didn't need a rug - she's right of course!
On the other hand the TB has a middleweight full neck rug on.
 
Me - The Tank is unrugged :D

But Obi is swaddled appropriately :o

There are stabled, unclipped, natives near me who are not only rugged but also wearing fleece hoods :eek:

And that includes a Shetland - I kid you not :mad:.
 
Mollie's in at night and out unrugged during the day. She's very woolly and has a generous coating of dried mud most of the time too. ;)
 
my 2 year old filly is rugged :o

she has grown endless fluff too which i think warrants another rug :o


she lives out 24/7 btw with unlimited haylege... she looks brilliant :)
 
Mine is rugged. I need it to be clean in the morning :p

It's also gone a bit skinny so I've had to concede this year. Last year it was naked until it hit -7!
 
[Just to add...was tongue in cheek! My TB is in a full neck MW, and my Welsh in a HW....Baby coblet is the one naked in all his winter warmers glory ;) ]
 
My Haffy is sporting a beautiful ginger coat they he made him self :)


Hes out 24/7 naked and was lovely and warm when he came in for some tea, happily went back out to search for the hay piles and carrots. Sooooooo easy having an outdoor horse. xx
 
kerrieberry2 said:
the shetties are naked but the god no the biggies are in heavy combos and I am more an under rugger than most people :s
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Why are they though?

This is what I really really struggle to understand (not picking on you in this KB2) as to why we humans have decided horses must have coats on.

You dont see cows with coats on and yet they continue to produce litres of milk no matter what the temperatures, sheep don't abort or drop masses of weight living out etc etc

Its such a marketing ploy !!!
 
2 unrugged and 2 rugged

25 yo rugged m/w, just to keep her cosy - unrugged for years.
6 yo - rainsheet. Just because she is ridden

2 youngsters unrugged. Both native and both have lovely thick coats.

:)
 
My 2 have just had a sheet thrown on them tonight but that purely because otherwise i spend half of my day off trying to get hardened clay mud off..not much fun!they didn't get rugged last year till it was -4 and raining...i'm simply feeling lazy tomorrow:-)
 
TT, I agree that most horses don't NEED them, mine are rugged purely for my convenience. I can't be arsed to spend hours scraping mud off when I could be spending that time riding :D
 
debsg said:
TT, I agree that most horses don't NEED them, mine are rugged purely for my convenience. I can't be arsed to spend hours scraping mud off when I could be spending that time riding :D
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True, many of mine would cope just fine, but I find that they eat about 50% more to keep warm (conducted a bit of an experiment on this last winter) at $80 a round bale, rugging is a damn sight cheaper ;) Thankfully we don't have mud though.
 
TigerTail said:
Why are they though?

This is what I really really struggle to understand (not picking on you in this KB2) as to why we humans have decided horses must have coats on.

You dont see cows with coats on and yet they continue to produce litres of milk no matter what the temperatures, sheep don't abort or drop masses of weight living out etc etc

Its such a marketing ploy !!!
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No it is not a marketing ploy at all. It depends on the breed, weather and how a horse holds its condition. Cows dont have coats on as they live inside in the winter with normally 200 other dairy cows, sheep do lose condition, especially in wet weather, its just that you cant see through their fleeces. Just to add that the life expectancy for a dairy cow is 3 lactations. We all hope our horses live a lot longer than that. Your point is beyond ridiculous.
 
2 out totally au natural,and one rugged and stabled.
Think it all depends on the individual horse,tho I personally believe many horses to be overrugged for the owners convenience and not because the horse needs it.
Stabled one is only bib clipped and in 200g rug,and doing fine,even in -5 as it was last night. Stabled cos my field istoo muddy with weather,and won't take big lad(he is 17.3) hooning about 24/7. Would be out if we're drier.
 
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