Yesssss!!! Hair is falling out (horse, not mine ?)

[Red-1]

Finally!

I was beginning to think they knew something I didn't. Sometimes the hair starts to shed even before the new year. Even the local daffodils are late!

Rigsby is still holding tight to his hair (elderly cob) but the new baby defo has some flicking out when I was grooming this morning.

This feels like the start of the end of winter!

Anyone else have shedding starting?

 

[little_critter]

Oh yes, I gave my woolly cob a scratch yesterday and came away with a handful of hair.
Both have been lightly shedding for a few weeks now.

 

[Peglo]

This week has been gales with horizontal sleet and hail showers. Think mine will be holding all hair on for dear life ?

I’m a little envious ?

 

[Red-1]

I'm jealous @little_critter, today was just the first whiff of a dusting of hair coming out.

 

[teddypops]

Yes mine have been for a few weeks now.

 

[Cloball]

We've got crocuses and snow drops with a few brave daffs coming through here. It has gotten very mild suddenly.

 

[MidChristmasCrisis]

Yep hair is coming out on mine too…

 

[Berpisc]

Annie has shed a few hairs for a week or two now, but we are not yet in to the serious chunks coming out. Our crocuses have just started to peep through but no daffodils yet.

 

[smolmaus]

I finally got a proper handful, took it round to my friend to wave it in her face gleefully ? Her cob never even grew a proper winter coat this year, Sadie looks like a bear.

 

[tda]

Yes, black pony has definite brown tinge atm and hair starting to shed.
Took rug off another as she was too warm!

 

[chaps89]

1 of mine started on New Year’s Day, lightly, but has stopped again and seems to be hanging onto it again. The cushings one is very firmly hanging onto his fluff, kinda dreading him moulting as there’s a lot of it and he’s a grey ?

 

[julesjoy]

Nope, none of my fuzz balls are moulting yet and getting slightly annoyed at my repeated plucking at them to check!

 

[PapaverFollis]

Yup. The Beast has been shedding little wisps for a week or so. She always goes early. Nothing from MrT or Dragon yet. Hoping to fully clip them all at the weekend to save me drowning in fluff! I say this every year and haven't ever managed it yet...

 

[MuddyMonster]

I've noticed shedding for a week, maybe 10 days now ?

As you say, with the lighter mornings and evenings and the first spring bulbs coming through, it feels like the beginning of the end of winter ??

 

[Annagain]

It's weird, last year Archie was shedding by mid Jan. This year, even with it being so mild, nothing. I think most of it might be glued on by the mud though.
Charlie started moulting later than Arch last year and we have nothing from him either.

I wonder if they never really grew such a thick coat as it never got cold? Although judging by the hair that came off Charlie when I clipped him, I don't think that's the case!

I saw my first flowering daffs yesterday too, a good few weeks later than last year.

 

[poiuytrewq]

Two of my weekday work horses are moulting like mad, the others not a hair. I’m dreading it because they are so huge and hairy.
My own, I haven’t notice any loss yet sadly surely soon ?
Although I had planned to clip them all out and not have to deal with it (I know, bad! I have asthma and they don’t care) but I’ve left it too late so it’s a mask and elbow grease.

 

[Caol Ila]

Foinavon started shedding a couple weeks ago, but now it's gotten out of control and everything that touches him is grey and furry. Nothing from Hermosa, though, but she didn't get a very thick coat this winter.

 

[Pippity]

My friend's Arab exploded in a poof of hair when I gave him a scratch a few weeks ago. My cob's been holding on to it, but it's started to go now. I'll have to fish out my shedding blade, because it clogged the magic brush after a couple of strokes.

 

[Spotherisk]

My 30 year old cob started on Christmas Day, what a fool!

 

[PurBee]

I noticed a few long hairs falling the other day and thought “hope it remains mild”

???? spring is here! ? ?

 

[PapaverFollis]

I'll look out on the sideways snow blowing across the croft today and keep saying "spring is here, spring is here, spring is here" ?

 

[J&S]

My veteran coloured mare always seems to start shedding after the shortest day. This year she was a little later, but the other day when I gave her a good going over there was a white hair " shadow" on the ground all around her, it looked like she had been clipped! Still plenty more to come though. Bay pony has shed one of her many layers of Bear Hair!

 

[Tarragon]

I reckon with my Exmoor ponies that they start growing their winter coat in September, are at full mammoth state by November, start losing it in March and just about have a proper summer coat by July. They take it all very seriously!!

 

[Parksmum3]

Ooooh yes definitely starting to shed now. I have 3 unclipped mainly grey ponies with wooly mammoth coats. Think I need to dig out waterproof clothes to stop the the hair sticking to me, I end up looking like a snowman after a good grooming session!!!

 

[ILuvCowparsely]

Finally!

I was beginning to think they knew something I didn't. Sometimes the hair starts to shed even before the new year. Even the local daffodils are late!

Rigsby is still holding tight to his hair (elderly cob) but the new baby defo has some flicking out when I was grooming this morning.

This feels like the start of the end of winter!

Anyone else have shedding starting?

Mine are not casting their coats yet.



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[southerncomfort]

Haven't checked the others but the old lady had a fair few loose hairs today.

 

[Dave's Mam]

Dave's been a cloud of fluff for a good few weeks now.

 

[Red-1]

Dave's been a cloud of fluff for a good few weeks now.

That is because Dave is perfect ?

 

[wiglet]

No. Nothing at all. She's hanging on to it atm - she's a notoriously late shedder but once she starts, it's usually all gone within a week.

 

[Annagain]

My comment yesterday worked. Clouds of white hair off Charlie today. Took one look at Arch and decided I needed far more than the 20 minutes I had to start on him.