[faith0504]

the weather is definately changing my shetlands are going fluffier by the day, my foal is growing another fluffy foal layer, and i have just put my big mares turnout rug on
how are everyone elses horses doing??

[Daisy]

Fluffing up nicely

[Samantha]

Hey there ... it's not cold enough here yet for me to start rugging and my Gypsy Cob only really gets rugged once the weather starts getting quite poor most of the time .. I rug him with a lightweight waterproof sheet just to keep him clean(ish) and dry. He has a mid weight if the weather gets very nasty, and he only ever has a fleece when stabled just to keep the draughts out

He is built to weather outside and I like to promote his fluffy winter coat as much as possible ... he is starting to fluff up and will end up looking like a great big teddy bear lol

Sam

[Rosemary]

Smokey and Bugsy are starting to get their winter coats. I don't rug either although I do have a waterproof for Smokey to keep him clean, but I don't really use it. I reckon if he's burning calories keeping warm, he's not laying them down as fat 

[faith0504]

i dont rug my shetlands they are natural, but my big mare never grows a winter coat, so i just help her out a wee bit

[scotelf]

Big old mare in her lightweight coat, wee welshie and highland without. They gets their's once they've been clipped.

[daddymatty82]

my little filly just getting a nice winter coat on her this week  the other person who rents the land also has 2 shetlands  but 13 weeks ago when i moved in there they still had there winter coat and were a bag of bones but now since we been there the owner has fed them up as there so say laminotic they cannot go out on the grass  and stay in the yard which is old bricks and concrete with all the grass and stingers grow through and they are a nice weight now 1 has just been gelded   and in this 13 weeks they have lost all there winter coat so i hope i will grow back this season or it will soon  be a cold one for them

[ellisr]

Thinking about putting Blues heavier coat on it was blimking nippy at 4am this morning when i went out to feed the animals.

[The Chicken Lady]

I have a gypsy cob. He is only three and I have not had him long. I have put a light weight rug on him - just a cheap one as I didn't think he would keep one on. However he is not bothered by it so I am looking to buy something more substancial for the winter but am not quite sure what to put him in. He will be living out but will have a shelter. Should I put him in a medium weight or heavy weight and does he need one to cover his neck?

[daddymatty82]

not having a go or anything to anyone or anything  but i personally think if you let your animal get there coat through and let them do the natural thing my filly is still young but i got no rug for her but she is like a wooly mammoth already  if she is like that then i believe she can cope so i go with no rug till she struggles

[lazybee]

My Baudet de poutou donkey is shedding his dreadlocks now? for some strange reason they shed their coats in Sept/Oct................Strange animal

[faith0504]

i have never heard of those have you got a pic? please

[loosey]

My TB is in a medium weight at night now and a rain sheet if it's wet.

My big mare is naked but will be being clipped at the end of the month so will be in a medium weight at night also until they start coming in at the end of october.

I agree that if you keep shetlands and the like, that they should be roughed off suitably but if you keep horses for riding then a wet, muddy, sweaty horse isn't very practical through winter!

[lazybee]

i have never heard of those have you got a pic? please

Meet the Baudet de Poutou

LB

[faith0504]

gosh he is amazing, that is one heck of a coat, i thought shetlands were hard work when they moulted, how do you look after a coat like that? have you got anymore?
i really like him