Braucht mein dünnes Pferd eine Regendecke?
Mein 17-jähriger Oldenburger-Wallach ist leider momentan zu dünn, da er ein paar gesundheitliche Probleme hatte. Es geht aber wieder bergauf, er ist wieder soweit gesund. Zunehmen dauert aber bekanntlich eine Weile… Nach folgendem Body-Score ist er “mager”.
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Er steht 8h/Tag mit 2 Kumpels auf einem Paddock ohne richtigen Unterstand (nur ein blattloser Baum). Heute regnet es bei ca. 8°C den ganzen Tag. Bisher hatte ich ihn komplett ohne Decke und nie den Eindruck, dass ihn das stört – im Gegenteil – wenn es regnet und er in seiner Paddockbox ist, steht er regelmäßig draußen (bei Sonnenschein so gut wie nie). Sein Winterfell ist wie jedes Jahr sehr gut ausgeprägt.
Eigentlich wollte ich ihn der Thermoregulierung wegen dieses Jahr komplett ohne Decke lassen aber bin mir aufgrund seines momentanen Futterzustands jetzt doch nicht mehr so sicher… Ich wollte jetzt einfach mal hinfahren und schauen, ob er zittert oder anderweitig einen frierenden Eindruck macht und je nach dem entscheiden. Was meint ihr?
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Hello, 8°C are for a horse “welcome temperature”. Like for us 23 degrees.
Of course, it depends on how strong it rains. I wouldn’t worry about the rains. And at a real cloud break, they don’t get out anyway? You can also share the skin at the crimp in one place and see if the skin is dry (usually it is).
Some horses get back pain when it’s windy. I’d cover it.
Otherwise, I find the idea good to see if it trembles (or stands at the gate and wants it in). There’s been too much coverage anyway. Horses sweating under the ceiling that constantly pull out the ceiling and snap or kick when you cover it is clearly too warm.
If he’s cold, he can move on the coupling. If he’s warm, he’s harder to get out of the ceiling alone.
Yes, sometimes they’re still out in the cloud. The skin is always dry, the skin is very good. He didn’t want to come in when I was there and he trembled. So I decided against the ceiling for the first time, especially since he also voluntarily stands in the rain, but I don’t know what it looks like when there are still 5° colder…
Well, at the latest at 8° colder, the rain is snow and with it, horses usually get along wonderfully. It remains on the back without melting, because the fur is so well insulated, and offers an additional movement incentive on the coupling.
At 24h long-lasting rain just above 0° you can give it a rain blanket without filling when it calms you… but in such a bad weather, I might rather consider leaving the horse completely inside. In a paddock box you can see if he’s still standing out.
Building a shelter is not an option? This would make the problem unnecessary for me.
no, the terrain is in the nature reserve or so, there is not even an additional coupling fence to be built, let alone a shelter…
With us in the area it is quite mild, snow will never give here – more permanent rain at 2°, which is really gross 😀 But yes, I will surely pack the rain blanket with fleece inside. Thanks for your help 🙂
If he’s got good fur, it should fit. Horses don’t get cold so fast. Even if they don’t have much bacon.
So just so in principle, I wouldn’t be. Look and then decide is an option. But even there I think it is rather unlikely that he really needs a blanket.
After work when sweated was to cover until the horse again has normal temperature and is dry, is a completely different subject. You should do that.
I wouldn’t cover (yet) – if he doesn’t just tremble in front of you, he doesn’t need a blanket, even if he’s so thin. So I’m full of you.
It is important that he gets a lot of structural food: hay, haycobs, lucerne, straw, etc – almost everything that is long-fiber. The long fibers are important for heat development in the horse.
If that’s not enough, also energy feed.
Whatever does not harm and is good for most muscle build-up (if it is allowed to health! Of course I don’t know why he’s hit/was and what he can’t do, that’s why he just shot into the blue one: movement. Riding, longing, running, rod work (even in freewheel), … – so that he really warms up at least 1x a day by moving. This also cures metabolism and usually also helps very well.
if the NAcht (the evening) is below 6 degrees AND it rains, then fFor the cover – NOT all day! he should get proper winter fur himself…. so if dry: NOT cover,
is your horse raining in the evening? put between the back and the ceiling a loose thick layer of straw or hay: THAT absorbs the moisture AND falls out by itself: in the morning your horse is dry
we do this 50 years….
At night he’s in a paddock box, so he can decide if out or in. Inside it is not as cold as outside. Unfortunately, I don’t have a chance to expose him in the morning… He already has the right winter fur. Rain nose is he actually always when the weather is appropriate because he volunteers in the box as soon as it rains properly – he apparently loves that…
Feeding just a bit richer (seed, beer yeast) then develops enough heat.
I would never pack a blanket on the horse.
What is important here is above all a good energy-rich feeding that it can “heat” enough from the inside.
In a small paddock, the horses can usually not move enough to warm up.
In doubt, so that the animal may not decrease further, hold a blanket (100 g) on it.
If a horse is sick, I’ll cover it.
My people are in open-minded attitude.
He’s not sick, just thin.
I’d grab one for security.
Is he 17 in horse years?
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