Yep, another rugging post...what rugs are yours in (particularly TBs with a clip)

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Out of interest really. :) My blanket clipped TB is currently in a 150g Amigo stable rug at night and a LW turnout usually w/neck in the day. Occasionally mediumweight if it's wet and windy too (LW is not reeeally waterproof).

*DISCLAIMER: I neither approve of, or condone, extreme rugging- be that 'over' or 'under' ;) I am also aware that each horse (and indeed each owner :p ) is individual, and that everyone should rug according to their horse's needs*
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I have a welch x cob who wears a Amigo 1200D Lite with hood during the day and if its p*ssing down a 100g(ish) under rug at night. Our field is very open and windy as hell!

I know I could take them off and he wouldn't melt or shrink but they keep him clean! He is the dirtiest pony in the world!! :D

Oh he will be getting clipped tomorrow as 20mins light work has him soaking! Neck and belly sould be enough x
 
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My Appaloosa is fully clipped and is wearing a MW Weatherbeeta Combo Stable Rug and my ID x has a blanket clip and is wearing a LW Stable rug.

There are quite a few fully clipped Thoroughbreds at the yard where I work and they are wearing HW Stable rugs with fleeces underneath.
 
fully clipped cob (not legs or mane) out 24/7 at the moment wearing a no fill rainsheet. I upped it to his 100g shires when it got frosty a few weeks back, and he was warm as toast. Now I think he's finally finished growing I've treated him (me!) to a 200g and 400g Fal rug, but not sure I'm ever going to need the 400g one as he's such a hot pony.
 
My very sensitive tb is in a weatherbeeta 200g combo in the day wen its above 7 degrees ish. Wen its below 7, she wears 360g marktodd combo which I love! In the stable currently she is in 200 g combo liner with 100g stable rug without neck in top. She has a chaser clip.

My appy 3 year old isn't clipped and he is in just a thin summer sheet at night and wen he's out he is in just a thin shires waterproof.
 
Well my 3/4 TB who, it has to be said, is a warm girl is currently outside with no clothing except the fur on her legs (hunter clip). At night she's in naked as well.

Although it's windy it's currently, according to my thermometer, over 15 degrees outside so I can't think of any reason why she should need to be "kept warm".
 
my 7/8th TB (ISH) is in 200g during the day and same at night at the moment and as of sat when due to go cold will be in either 300 or 400g at night depending on how low it goes.
She lives out 24/7
 
Thin skinned Trakehner (Not tb I know lol) who is full clipped is currently wearing a medium weight full kneck t/o in the day and a medium stable standard neck with a heavy weight full neck stable. I have upped his rugs due to the fact I have had to clip 3 times in 6week already! :mad:
 
My boy Welsh x is fully clipped expect legs is in a light weight in the field and a medium weight in the stable.

My Welsh D is fully clipped with legs on and is in a light weight turnout and a light weight stable rug.
 
No rugs required this week as it is so mild. Just because we all had to rug a couple of weeks ago when it was freezing doesn't mean we cannot stop when the weather picks up :)
 
Hunter has hunter clip and was boiling in his stable last night with a cotton sheet on. If its as warm tonight he'll be naked. Out in rain sheet.

I can't believe how many rugs some horses are wearing!! The racehorses all have lots of rugs on already and I can't understand how they are not sweating buckets when they are only 30 ft across the yard to my hunter who is boiling!
 
Weezy said:
No rugs required this week as it is so mild. Just because we all had to rug a couple of weeks ago when it was freezing doesn't mean we cannot stop when the weather picks up :)
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Thank you for putting it so succinctly.

Surely people are not wearing the same number of coats they were wearing a couple of weeks ago.
 
A couple of weeks back, my unclipped TB was in a 200 gm turnout, and at night was in a full neck quilt and m/w stable rug.
My now newly clipped TB is in a sheet duing the day and is in just the m/w stable rug at night.
 
It's warm here at ATM and my tb who currently has a chaser clip (will whip it all off once his coat has stopped going through) is out in an old 200g MW with neck but tbh it's so old not much filling left! He's had a fleece on at night as it's so warm.

When it was freezing the other week he was wearing a HW RHino stable rug at night and a 300g rug with neck in the day.

When he is fully clipped in mid winter he will wear a lot more but it depends on how warm he feels :)
 
hmmmm, mines in 120gm full neck under a 360gm full neck turnout in the day, plus a snuggy hood.
120gm full neck under 350gm full neck stable rug, plus leg wraps when in at night.

he's warm, but not over hot.
 
My gelding (warmblood, but with a lot of TB in him!) was clipped for the second time last week, and is in a medium weight turnout during the day and heavyweight with neck at night. Seems to be just right. It is warm though, isn't it - I turned my heating off this morning because I was too hot in bed last night.
 
B (not TB) is in a middleweight Combo, although it has been warm our fields are so exposed (ask Carey_R she suffered the wind experience this week ;)) they have not been just right coming in.
 
Weezy said:
No rugs required this week as it is so mild. Just because we all had to rug a couple of weeks ago when it was freezing doesn't mean we cannot stop when the weather picks up :)
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That's very true, I was told years ago by what I thought was a very experienced person that once you put a rug on a horse then you have to rug them all the time after that!
I now know that's completely not true!
 
Not a TB. But TBxID with full clip has got an Amigo liner and Master HW at night and his liner and a Amigo HW turnout in the day.. he’s pretty snug! Don’t want him having any excuses to get thin though and he’s not too warm. I don’t agree with rugging at all in the summer but think people should when they’ve shaved all their hair off.
 
Well I am going to be an odd one here.... My TB isn't clipped and he has a fleece under rug with a hulking great big duvet and a HW Rambo stable rug on top. He does look like a show horse and doesn't need clipping. Oh and he's never hot and sweaty under his rugs. I always rug very heavily as much as the horses will take to keep their coats good through the winter months. They all wear exercise sheets when ridden and if they are clipped only minimal taken off. Makes me chuckle though when people hacking their horse at weekends have them clipped out - mine race with a low trace clip!! No offence meant to those who do clip their horses out for weekend hacking by the way!
 
My IDxTB has a clip that is somewhere between a chaser and blanket (blanket was too much, chaser wasn't enough and I messed up the lines so took a bit more off!) and is, today, out in just a LW without a neck as it's 16C here. Overnight, while the weather stays this warm, he will be in just a cotton sheet. He is far too hot in anything more, though before it suddenly and randomly warmed up, he was in a 100g stable rug with neck overnight and out in a no-fill full neck TO, sometimes with a sheet underneath.
 
mine was hutner clipped on tuesday - she's in a HW full neck - its 4'C and raining here and she lives out 24/7. when it starts to dip below freezing she'll have a fleece under that - if it gets to the baltic temps of last year she'll have a full neck under rug on too - and possibly more - i play it by ear to how she feels.
i clip to hunt btw ;)
 
Tb with a clip in at night, out during day

In a fleece combo at night as tried her with a lw stable rug both with and without neck and both left her very sweaty in the morning but with the fleece she feels nice and toasty with no sweating


During the day when out she wears a lw combo with about 100g filler as it has been relatively warm lately. She lives up in the hills so it's always a little colder up there.
 
My TB has a low chaser clip; is out during the day and in at night.

He's wearing a 300gm WB combo during the day and a 200gm std neck stable rug at night. If it's a clear (going to drop to freezing) night then he'll wear a 110gm combo under rug beneath his stable rug. He wears leg wraps too.

Although the temp has been reading between 6-10 degrees C here we've had non stop torrential rain and a very cold wind. His field is exposed to a certain degree; no shelter but dips/hollows they huddle in. He's warm but not hot and most importantly happy, healthy and comfortable.

My friend was telling me the other day about a horse wearing 5 rugs in the stable already. Just wonder what it'll have to wear when it does actually get really cold; there's a long way to go yet!
 
Another Scot here! Hasn't stopped pi$$ing down here in days, loads of flooding. cold too :( Horse (not tb and not clipped!) out 24/7 in 200g full neck rug. He has still lost weight but think thats more to do with weather than rug as he feels warm enough.
 
Aces_High said:
Well I am going to be an odd one here.... My TB isn't clipped and he has a fleece under rug with a hulking great big duvet and a HW Rambo stable rug on top. He does look like a show horse and doesn't need clipping. Oh and he's never hot and sweaty under his rugs. I always rug very heavily as much as the horses will take to keep their coats good through the winter months. They all wear exercise sheets when ridden and if they are clipped only minimal taken off. Makes me chuckle though when people hacking their horse at weekends have them clipped out - mine race with a low trace clip!! No offence meant to those who do clip their horses out for weekend hacking by the way!
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Jeeeeez they have all that on at approx 15 degrees? what do they wear when we hit the minus numbers????? Unless of course you live in the north pole or somewhere!!! :)

"keep their coats good" what do you mean? coat is dependant on DAYLIGHT predominantly not temperature!!
 
Weezy said:
No rugs required this week as it is so mild. Just because we all had to rug a couple of weeks ago when it was freezing doesn't mean we cannot stop when the weather picks up :)
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A very sensible point.

I've turned my girl out naked a few times, despite being clipped and some of the other liveries looked horrified!
When she is rugged in the day she's in a lw turnout, no neck, no filling etc.
 
Axel is a very hot horse, and even when clipped he can only wear a middleweight turnout rug in the field, I have a heavyweight with a middleweight neck cover for him and even when it's really cold he comes in sweating!

He has 2 middleweight rugs on overnight in his stable but in the snow and when it got really cold I replaced one of them with a heavyweight and he was fine, sometimes even too hot in the morning!

He is an Arab x TB x Hanovarian :)
 
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