Is an unlined rain rug sufficient for my horse in winter?
Hey! I have a 9-year-old warmblood/coldblood mix and I'm wondering whether I should blanket him in the winter. He'd probably be fine without it, but I'd still like to work with him, and he sometimes gets really muddy and wet in the winter, and I can't shower him, so I've been thinking about putting a rain cover on him. What's the best way to do this? Will an unlined rain cover last the whole winter, or will he get cold? Will he still develop winter fur under the rain cover, right?
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if your horse lives naturally, it does not need a blanket;
You only need good cleaning equipment and a room where you get the product well dry and clean. The fact that a senior is covered in ice rain with an outdoor blanket with a light lining (from 50-200g) is ok, but my “dicker” does not need a blanket even with 26 years….In the case of snowy weather, he does not stand under – or (mostly!!!) on request….
Punkgirl describes fine as I do: Clean the saddle and belt layer 1a, brush the rest thoroughly with hedgehog or spring-tooth bar
They say that in winter you should not put undead blankets on a horse. The ceiling itself does not heat, but presses down the existing coat so that no warming air cushions can form. You should always have a thin filling in the ceiling.
I also have a pure rain blanket. But my horse is only covered if it really rains heavily in cold weather. Not natural in the summer. If I had to do it again, I would have a 50 gr. (dones) or 100 gr. Buy blanket.
So only if it rains heavily, your horse wears a rain blanket. Not at all, is it?
No, that’s bullshit.
An unlined rain blanket lies on the coat when wet, ice cold and presses it flat. Then the horse can no longer raise it and freeze it.
Honestly, what is there a spring lock? Dreck’s doing great. And what’s in it, stay in it. Head and saddle position and finished.
Besides, please consider. Are you wearing a pure rain jacket all winter? You take the horse the opportunity to put the hair on. So you have to make sure that the horse doesn’t fry. There’s enough a blanket, and it’s not enough.
You need at least 5, better 7 blankets (exchangeable blankets included!) To properly cover a horse in winter.
2x a 50/100g ceiling, just no unlined from the above mentioned reason.
2x 150/200g, which is dressed when it gets significantly colder, the horse can no longer do this alone.
Then depending on winter…. If winter is hard 2x 250/300g, it is lazy, one of them is enough. For a hard winter, it is recommended 1x 350/400g, but rarely necessary.
If you consider that each ceiling costs around 100 euros AND must fit…. och ne, would be too stressful and too annoying. Especially not a single blanket over the winter… Sorry, but DAS is really utopian!
Get a good feather bar or a sweat knife, that’s what it’s got, it’s great with dirt and coat change.
comes another brush for the scrape so that they don’t have to keep in the washing machine.
DH!
I don’t like spring locks because of lack of efficiency (I’ve never seen all the positive effects I’ve heard so far, but after handling these parts, I’m always more dirty than the horse before) at all, but then I’ve got the appropriate brushes. Brush it once, saddle, ride 😉
Covering a horse from pure laziness only so that it is dry and clean when you come to ride is quite selfish;-)
A healthy horse does not need a blanket – on the contrary, by covering you enter the natural heat control and your horse will be more susceptible to coughs and co. than if you just let it regulate it yourself.
With the exception of the senior with his nearly 30 years old, my horses stand out all year round without ceiling. If they are wet, the saddle layer is wiped dry with a towel or even washed off with warm water of the mud – that doesn’t hurt the horse anything and sick were the horses never before, unlike the other horses covered with felt 500g.
So please give it a rest with the cover-in…
Huhu!
If then I’d put a fed blanket on him. She is as well as a wet raincoat on the naked skin. Without a blanket, however, it is a good opportunity and even more beautiful for the horse.
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I haven’t seen a horse in 40 years that had been coldened but whether it is now art-friendly or sensible to cover a horse
In the case of a reasonable stable, blankets are unnecessary: the horses are here every day and in every weather also on the pasture and therefore have hardly any respiratory diseases.
a healthy horse does not need a blanket although a nine-year-old can already frösteln . From nature, the horse has its own blanket that is the fur that protects the horse from cold rain. Ask the veterinarian whether a blanket is full or not meaningful
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Why does the horse have to wear a blanket for your convenience?
Horses have an ingenious fur that works all together and suitable for every occasion. Heat, cooling, water-repellent, water-repellent, etc.
Even a wet horse you can work.
I put a towel on the saddle layer, which absorbs moisture to a minimum, then it is smoothly removed and then saddle laid – finished.
If they are very muddy you can also spray in winter, why not?
For me, blankets with normal healthy horses are absolutely insane.
Unfortunately we only have cold water at the stall and this is unfortunately not “rotated” in winter – otherwise the lines would freeze
We also only have cold water – makes the horses nix.
Yeah. Legs and flanks can always be worn – whistle anyway.
can I squirt the horse if it’s so cold?
Under a normal rain blanket, it will still get enough winter fur.
However, even in winter there are very warm days where you prefer to leave the ceiling, presumed, he is not hurdles, otherwise he starts sweating under the ceiling.
You’d have to make it weather.
Winter fur may get, but can no longer use the coat and set up by pressing the flat.
Depends on how bald it is and how dense it is. If you shouldn’t joke it’s enough
He gets a real plush fan in winter and I didn’t want to joke him.
Then make a 50gram ceiling on it
So at less than 10 degrees when it is wet when the sun does not shine then
When should I put the 50g ceiling on him?
Under a not fed rain blanket he should still get enough winter fur.
Winter fur may get, but can no longer use the coat and set up by pressing the flat.