Who's horse isn't shedding?

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Identityincrisis

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Is mine the only one?!

All other horses on the yard are shedding their coats in buckets and mine hasn't even thought about it!! I think he's too lazy!

He's a 5 yr old so nothing to do with cushings etc.

I'm puzzled :/
 
The draught mare started to shed on boxing day!
The Older Appy is now beginning to shed her very dense winter coat.
The Young Cob has just started shedding and the Young Appy's coat is beginning to loosen.
 
It's snowing and it's -3, if mine have any sense they will hang on to their hair today. It has been mild all week so they have been shedding everywhere.
 
Well I'm pleased he's not the only one!

Everyone on my yard said I wasn't rugging him heavy enough........he's in 200g which isn't exactly light and I hate over rugging, but it appears to be a competition who's horse can wear the heaviest rug!

"Still waiting, posed ready with my shedding tools...." Me too!!!!
 
Sam's been shedding on and off. He kind of stopped and I was tempted to clip him for Halton but decided against it in the end. I clipped him 3 times before Christmas now he looks like I never bothered. He'd better loose this coat for the summer as I really don't want to have to clip him before next autumn. It would help if the weather decided to be consistent.

Of course, being a grey and white he does manage to permanently cover everything in hair LOL
 
Mine isn't, but I clipped her body just after Christmas so it's just her legs and her head which are furry. She's a mainly white (or at this time of year mud) coloured and I am so looking forward to not being covered in white hair this year!
 
Cowpony said:
Mine isn't, but I clipped her body just after Christmas so it's just her legs and her head which are furry. She's a mainly white (or at this time of year mud) coloured and I am so looking forward to not being covered in white hair this year!
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Haha! I was hand grazing shetland outside the yard gates on the road verge recently when a couple stopped to comment what an unusual chestnut colour he was..... he's pure white 😅 (in summer anyway!)
 
poiuytrewq said:
Haha! I was hand grazing shetland outside the yard gates on the road verge recently when a couple stopped to comment what an unusual chestnut colour he was..... he's pure white �� (in summer anyway!)
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Haha! But they are so lovely when they are clean. Mine glows in the summer!
 
Thanks for posting this, as I was debating on whether to start a thread along similar lines.

My native is 9 but has had laminitis in the past and seems to be slow to shed. Obviously with his type and history of laminitis, the concern of Cushings is there. He's the only horse on my yard that has been partially clipped and rugless all winter, so don't really have another horse to judge against. He's been shedding a little bit, but not masses and I wasn't sure whether I should be worried or not. If other horses aren't shedding lots, then I think I'm not so concerned for now.
 
One of mine has just passed peak shedding and holding onto the little bit that's left. The other hasn't even thought about it yet!
 
Old cob wouldn't dream of dropping a single hair until May. This is nothing to do with his age (he is nearly 30) - he has always been the same. He is an awkward old so and so in many ways! The others are all shedding, including young cob's mum who never wears a rug.
 
My mate has patches of coat coming through and then some longer hairs and has lost a few little patches where it hasn't started to come through at all.. She does have cushings though (and Prascend) so that's why.

All the other 3 are still losing their coat, took a bucket full off of the un clipped pony tonight!
 
The minute we are past the shortest day I start seeing the odd loose hair coming free and the amount and momentum slowly builds and builds...and now across the last 2-3 weeks I'm in peak avalanche of hair coming off. I get fascinated by how the white hairs come out first and the coloured hairs come out a bit later - also different parts of the body shed earlier than others.
 
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