Why do you clip out completely?

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I am interested as I have just read a post on NL about how many rugs people have on their horses.
I only trace or blanket clip as both my horses are in work and Rafi has been competing but they are turned out for about 5 hours a day and the weather can change suddenly and I can't be there all the time. I see no reason to clip out fully unless they are working very hard such as hunting. I smile when I see people who clip their horses out and then put on rugs when they exercise them, rugs can do quite alot of damage with pressure.
I like to reclip quite often so they look smart but why do people fully clip horses that are doing very little work?
 
to sum extent i think its a fashion statement to some ppl
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i hate clippin and only take off as much as i need to!!!
Unless ppl just cant clip properly and do neat lines so have to take it all off!
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a) my horses are on very limited turnout (not my choice!) so they are snuggly in stable most of time

b) if i attempted to do anything involving lines it would go horribly wonky and wrong!! ha ha
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I'm lazy! I have relatively fat horses and thick rugs. I really hate hair, doesn't agree with my asthma or the washing machine (although clipping probably isn't great for me either, but I do wear a mask!)

I only ever blanket clipped the skinny nags.

ETS: I don't do legs or heads and another reason is that I ride after work, so don't want them sweaty at 8pm.
 
I think people often over-estimate how hard their horse is working (as they often do when deciding what to feed). Although, having said that, if I didn't have someone who I paid for the clip and had to do it myself I might be tempted to just take the lot off to avoid issues with wonky lines!

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Mine gets heat rash if he gets too hot so he is clipped out, his legs come off too so they are easier to wash and quicker to dry. He goes out everyday no matter what the weather for about 10 hours with a combo rug on and has never some in cold.

I hate it when people clip out horses just for fashion when they have no intention of working them hard enough to get them hot and sweaty!
 
Theres no prob with clipping your own horse and using a full clip if you keep the animal warm.With todays fab rugs,there is no-need to put 3 rugs on and really no-need to using human thick duvets as under rugs.Ok so we so we take their coats off when we clip,but as long as they have 1 good rug and its waterproof,im sure the horse doesnt need or want more than 2 thin layers,max!!. It does make me laugh when people nick-pick on here at someone else's post.Times have changed,as has the style we keep our horses.Unless you are a kid or have NO knowledge,then u really dont need to be told how to keep your own animal.Advice grt,thats what this forum is for!! I do a Full-clip as mines a hairy beast.(sweats up when ridden)Yet hes kept out(well rugged with shelter&lots of forage)and ridden prob 3 times a wk during winter!Im not competing duriing winter. Im a firm believer in horses are horses and i do not molly coddle them and i have NEVER EVER had any probs with health or soundness!
 
Because otherwise he looks a mess!
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I do compete in the winter (albeit infrequently) but I would rather clip him and have him not sweat than have him sweating. He also feels very lethargic when he is hairy.

I also do a full clip in the summer, as again his coat is just too thick for him to enjoy things, and can sweat just being out in the field (with shelter
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) standing still. So for ODEs in the summer, he is also much happier being clipped
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Here in Switzerland it is the fashion and the norm. There is not even a price for anything less than a hunter clip at my yard.

Most people here take the lot off, including head and legs, even happy hackers. I don't as I really prefer to keep some warmth and protection on the legs. I think people see all the top showjumpers and dressagers do it and think it is either trendy or necessary.

90% of horses on our yard have one heavyweight rug and the rest have 2 rugs. No-one has 3 rugs or under-duvets and there really are only very few neck covers. All the horses look well and seem warm. I think we Brits are just too soft.
 
Not sure.... i full clipped Blue legs and everything in September and then twice full clipped him after that leaving legs on... then it started to get a bit colder so i clipped him with a blanket clip on Saturday
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He is worked 5 days a week for at least 30-40mins, mainly schooling....
 
Because i hunt, although if i am really honest i hunt once a fortnight ( although do other bits of competing inbetween) and could proably get away with just blanket clipping her, however she is grey and i fully clip her and keep her done regulary so when i take her anywhere to clean her i can just wash her tail and legs ( which i also clip out) and get away with hot clothing her rather than bathing.
So the honest answer is i clip out cause i am lazy! my horse never wears more than 1 rug for turnout and a fleece under her H/W stable rug and is plenty warm enough.
 
Because he hates being hot, and also sometimes gets a heat rash if he overheats. He is 1/2 native so gets a good coat.

Oh yes, and he was also still N eventing at the end of October so had to be done for that!

Also, he is the most disgusting horse I've ever known for getting himself dripping wet with mud all over (he can get it on the top of his bottom even with a rug on!). A full clip makes it much easier to get him clean!
 
My TB is hunter clipped and he does hunt 3 days a fortnight usually for most of the day. He does quite a lot of work on the days in between to keep him as fit as he needs to be to hunt. I need him to be dry enough in half an hour after coming home to turn him out for the day whilst I am at work hence hunter clipped. Seems to suit him very well.
 
I'm in a dilemma at the moment about whether to fully clip my horse in New year or not!

At the moment he has a chaser blanket type clip and it is perfectly fine for him! He even hunts with this clip.

My main reasons are smartness, easier to groom and no moulting grey fluff! Plus after hunting it would be easier to clean him up.

Decisions, decisions!
 
Mine is turned out every day for about 10hourse, but is fully clipped as he gets worked most evenings, gets sweaty if he isnt clipped fully, and I havent got the time to be hanging around all night to wait for him to dry off so I can rug him properly. As he is fully clipped, he gets worked, hot clothed and rugged up so he is warm and dry all night, and I'm not hanging around till 10 at night!!
 
Honest answer - because I am vain and lazy - don't like scruffy hairy horses, don't like mud and don't like clip lines for the spring events.

They keep their coats if they are just light hacking but anything more and it all comes off.

They keep their legs on every other clip - enough to keep it nice and short without messing around every time.

Saddle patches come off because I did it by accident a couple of years ago and discovered my TB was absolutely fine.
 
Mine was clipped in autumn when she was eventing (at the beg. of sep) as shes so fluffly! and was getting very hot and sweaty.

But she hasnt been clipped since oct and our other hasnt been done at all. We will fully clip ours so theres nothing to come off in the spring (laziness really!) and because we plan to compete and they are a bit scruffy atm.

I dont understand the whole riding with rugs thing either...
 
I just clipped my horse with a chaser/blanket cross. I would normally take everything off but I was feeling too lazy and couldn't be bothered. I didn't even do her face.

I think a full clip just looks so much smarter than anything else. My horse is stabled with limited turnout in the winter, has decent rugs so why not fully clip?
 
Mine's fully clipped legs as well. She's out for about 8 hours a day. The reason she is fully clipped is because she gets very hot with the work I am doing. Like others have said I can't wait until 10.00 to feed. Also when I take her out competing she was just too hot and uncomfotable. I also will put a sheet on her at the weekend if I am just hacking and doing walk work.
 
Same answer as KatB.
Both mine are fully clipped with legs & front of face left on.
Mine get worked 5 days a week & I school fairly hard in the evenings. If not clipped I would have to hang around waiting for them to dry off. Whereas with them clipped I walk them off at the end & can put rugs straight back on.

Also, after the last 2 springs where I only blanket clipped Spider & I had white hair everywhere.... including over all the other livery's stuff
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I vowed Spider would always be fully clipped unless not in work!
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i think that is brave of you to admit sillymare as i was just going to post and say noone is going to admit it for their own vanity!!
personally i dont care what other people do but i never clip legs except on pro showjumpers (it seems to be mandatory........) and avoid doing whole heads if i can there are very few horses that enjoy it and in this country there is no need except as i said for the look of the thing.
what totally lills me is when someone insists they have to clip full so the horse 'wont get sweat rash' or ' i cant wait about for him to dry' and then leave a saddle patch. not really understanding the logic there.
as someone said there are excelllent rugs these days though i still like my old jute rugs and their duvet so even if you do clip right out there isno need for the horse to be cold. i do hate clipped legs when they are living out though and when i was a girl, hunters never had their legs clipped just any excess feather trimmed so there must be some 'fashion' element in what people do.
 
I have one with a chaser clip as he's an easy going chap who doesn't work harder than he has to and consequently doesn't sweat that much.
I also have a stresshead who arrives at a show dripping with sweat if she's too hot, so she has a full clip (legs on) and can then travel in a light rug and arrives warm, but not a lathered mess. She's well rugged and on a really cold day will ride out in an exercise sheet.
 
Two out of three of mine are clipped out because they are worked at night and get really hot and I want to ensure they are dry and cool before rugging them, the other one is only chaser clipped as she is not doing as much work, but again I want to ensure she is dry and cool before rugging her, also I like to see them looking smart and not like wooly monsters........
 
My horse is fully clipped (legs on) because she works hard and like others I do not have time to wait every eve after work for her to dry after working (it can take hours on a cold night with a wet steaming horse) but at the weekend if I hack she wears a woollen exercise rug because we will be mainly walking and that does not generate enough warmth for a 'skinned' horse on a bitterly cold day - surely all this is common sense? Why not just do what you think is right for your ned and leave everyone else to do the same - people will never agree on this or the rugging issue so we have to just live and let live!
 
i fully clip mine out aprt from there legs and a saddle patch.....

I do this because i prefer the full clips as they look smarter choc hunts a bit in the winter andboth get ridden 6 times a week doing fairly hard work if its not jumping lesson or dressage... they both work quite hard and choc still has to do a fair bit of fitness on the raods as he can get lazy if not fit.....

they go out in the morning and come bk in at night they wear a cooler and a thick new zealand over the top and never cold.....
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what totally lills me is when someone insists they have to clip full so the horse 'wont get sweat rash' or ' i cant wait about for him to dry' and then leave a saddle patch. not really understanding the logic there.

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Surely there is a big difference between a horse that is completely wet all over vs just a wet saddle patch in terms of drying time?
 
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