WTF middle weight rugs in July!

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What the hell is going on! Lightweights r not standing up to the heavy rain and seen as our fields have no natural shelter bar a few trees I have had to chuck the middleweights on! What the hell is going on!
 
My oldies are out with little natural shelter, naked. They don't seem exactly bothered.
 
Ditto - my old boy is not coping well with the heavy rain one minute and intense heat and sun the next. Middleweights over night last night and naked now as it's so hot.
 
I'm up in Cumbria - we've had loads of rain, but it's still really hot and humid. The TB has a lightweight on at night, if it's forecast to rain, but the pony is out naked all the time and even in the heaviest rain is like a little radiator to touch!
 
Ours are all naked with a bit of natural shelter, no rugs! if I started putting rugs on, I'd be there every hour or so taking them off...putting them on....taking them off....
 
Yep, no rugs on mine! They would cook in them as it is so humid. Even my thin skinned wimpy warmblood has been fine just sheltering under a tree!
 
After I discovered my LW wasn't coping with the rain and just sitting like a big wet thing on Gs back, I've had him out naked as Id rather he was wet, muddy and a nice temperature, than clean(er) and becoming a boil-in-the-bag horse in a wet MW :D
He, and his finer, thinner skinned fieldmate are both naked 24/7 and happy as pigs (or in this case, horses) in mud!! Plastered in the stuff, and loving it!
 
Cold, wet & miserable here in Aberdeenshire, mediumweights been on for a few weeks now. A few weeks ago my mare had her Koolkoat on. Getting fed up with this weather :(
 
Naked guys here the last few days as its so muggy, but the rains bouncing this morning and its a bit windy down where they are, so lightweights it is and they'll be in again tonight
 
My girl is naked too. She doesn't like rugs and normally tells me if she doesn't want it on by throwing me a funny face and a little open air nip. That's why she did yesterday when I tried to stick her lightweight on and although I knew it was going be heavy rain and felt a tiny bit bad and I know that's she's prob not bothered at all.
 
It's quite warm here although is heavy rain but our top paddocks do get quite windy and horses were shivering this morning!
 
If they need rugs they are better to have them ,some areas in Scotland are cold enough,

I have a new lake in one of the paddocks!!!

I am a bit worried about hay and straw this year -here we go again!!!!

So sorry for everyone who has worked so hard to get ready for shows etc when this
weather is causing them to be cancelled .
 
Here in our part of cornwall we don't seem to have the heat between the showers that some of you are getting - it's just wet, and pretty chilly. Mind you, you know the old saying "On Dartmoor, it rains for six months of the year, and the rest of the time it's winter" - think that applies everywhere this year.

Mine are in their LWs and have hardly had them off all year. Was wondering today whether there are any implications from horses not getting any sun (or even light) onto their backs.

And now they are saying it's going to rain until September.

No hay or haylage around already because the local farmers just haven't been able to get onto their land to cut.

It's going to be a long old winter at this rate.
 
Other than bug rugs ours are all naked. Better them be naked and wet and able to dry off quickly when the rain stops than to be stuck in a drenched rug sweating.
 
Naked here again, it's muggy and clammy - I'd rather be wet than wet and hot - urgh!!
They have plenty of natural shelter so that's where mine are now.
 
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