Wrap them ponies up -7 degrees

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Gonna be -7 degrees in Cardiff by the early hours of tomorrow morning. Bonna be wrapping the lad up even more than he is now
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It's really warm here, Parker would be out naked but has a light weight and fleece on as not sure what time I'll be up there in afternoon/evening, and he's clipped. Tango, clipped out warmblood out naked though.
 
-9 here this morning on my car at 6.45 - Donks was in two fleeces and her stable rug - her ears were cool but the rest of her felt like toast!
 
It was -5 when I went to work at 8.10am this morning.

Dexter was in a bib and 2 heavy weight neck rugs last night! And prob will be all week if this keeps up. Spider just had a bib and a heavy weight as all her clip has almost grown through.
 
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Actually it sounds like you are getting our weather. It is +6 over here today and all the tonnes of snow we have is melting.
 
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Actually it sounds like you are getting our weather. It is +6 over here today and all the tonnes of snow we have is melting.

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Really?? Isn't that quite early for you??
 
Yes. The weather this winter has been very bizarre. We have already had one Melt this winter, and now looks like we are going to have another. Whether winter is over or not, who knows.
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I am looking out of the window and to be honest, it looks like England! Very damp and grey.
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I'd far rather have the -20 with sunshine.
 
its warm here now - horses in yard without any rugs on!!! grr this weather - i am doing three rug changes a bloody day - driving me mad!
 
Here in the Highlands none of our natives or cobs are rugged, and it's been sub zero at nights for weeks. Even my son's British Riding Pony only has a mid weight rug on. As long as they're fed enough (and are not clipped) they cope fine.
 
I feel mean now but mine are both just clipped on the neck and chest and only have fleeces on at night and lw turnouts in the day or both went naked yesterday as it was warm in the sun - dont seem to be suffering by it though so i suppose do what suits yours. Mine is a tb x id and daughter has arab x trotter 50/50 (try getting the bloody thing to canter !!)
 
It was -7 this morning in Derbys and even the water in my boys stable bucket was frozen over! He had his mw on and was lovely and toasty! He never seems to need any more than that...think he spends so much time munching his body can't get cold because he has all that hay to process through!!!!
 
Yes it is very cold overnight at the moment. The lady who is riding for me popped to the yard at 5.30 on Sunday morning and it was -8 then. Brrrrr!
 
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Ooh dig out those rugs.
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You're not allowed to respond to this post - it's probably about -20 with you!
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My mare and foal are wintered out - obviously they are naked but with a field shelter.

They have loads of hay and are warm as toast. We put hay in the shelter and hay in the field and guess which hay is always all gone and which they have only picked at?
 
My boy (warmblood rising 2) is out naked 24/7 at the moment. We did have a MW wug on him (from November - 2 weeks ago) when it was really wet but since it became dry he loves being naked and it's like having a different horse so he's staying naked until he shows us that he doesnt like it or we come up and he's really cold. Having said that the field has lots of grass, is surrounded by shelter and he is getting lots of food and has a really thick coat (1-11/2" thick) so he's well protected.
 
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Here in the Highlands none of our natives or cobs are rugged, and it's been sub zero at nights for weeks. Even my son's British Riding Pony only has a mid weight rug on. As long as they're fed enough (and are not clipped) they cope fine.

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Yep, horses are FINE in minus temps, people forget that horses are designed for living out in all weathers
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My 2 natives are never rugged during the winter, only my 2 horses are as they are hunter clipped but even then only have 1 HW on... I believe Ive only ever put on an under rug during severe blizzards! Yesterday and today, even the clipped ones had their rugs off it was SO mild!

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even the water in my boys stable bucket was frozen over!

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Erm... our water troughs have had ice on them most mornings this winter...! Do you lot not get ice down there?
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