How do you train blanketed horses in the rain?
My pony is clipped and therefore blanketed.
How do you train when it's raining and there's no indoor riding arena available? With a rain rug?
Or do you put a sweat rug under the rain rug after riding and then change it regularly?
With my PB, there is no riding hall and it is in a paddock box with subsequent pasture, which means it is not damaged. If I do something with him in rain, we’ll do it without a blanket, even if he got the winter blanket before it. It’s a little rain. After that, if it’s wet, there’s the sweat blanket on it and then the winter blanket if it needs one at the time.
But then all the time you have a wet horse under the ceiling, this is more counterproductive ^^^
Sweat blankets are there to put them on a wet horse!!!
Why? He’s got the sweat blanket on it and can dry in the box? Even if I didn’t like it, I don’t have the chance to change it because I’m not the owner. I’m just telling you how it is.
No, we’re going to be together. We know that you shouldn’t both do it. I was wrong. Sorry.
I’m sorry, then I misunderstood you
That’s what I said wrongly. Only the sweat blanket until it’s dry. As long as I do the box/feeder/… and then the sweat blanket comes down and the winter blanket on it. Both I and Besi would never do. Especially not over a longer period.
That was also my concern that the horse then coldened or similar. But if she’s not the owner, she doesn’t have much to say about it…
You should never make a blanket over the sweat blanket. Moisture can then not pull outwards, so it becomes moist and crimped under the winter blanket.
A rainforest blanket that is not oversized and “flappes” but really sits well and does not disturb the horse in work. Nice cap on, rain jacket on and off. Next horse in the washing box, squirting legs and belly, sweating blanket on it, sweating, covering horse. Make saddle and gaiter clean, leather fat, ready.
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Additional:
Perhaps this blanket here is the solution for you – according to manufacturer, the even can be packed on wet fur. According to Bucas, works like a sweat blanket: https://www.pferdedecken-shop.de/de/bucas-power-turnout-extra-high-neck-300g-silver-weidedecke-abschwitzdecke.html
I’ll put a 0g rain blanket on it. Mine is not shirred but otherwise covered because it wears an eczema blanket in summer and therefore does not push winter fur in winter. When riding, I put it on the back (have not yet found a rainy blanket whose saddle cut is large enough) and during longing keeps quite normal. I think it’s a bit nasty on the wet horse back to make a blanket on it, so I do.
No, not a rain blanket on it, but quite normal riding, while the horses produce enough warmth.
And then keep the normal breathable pasture on it. Among them, the fine sweating, are windproof and do not need to be covered.
If it doesn’t flow when it rains normally and the horse is completely shaved I would pack a kidney blanket on it, but at 10 degrees I would probably not do it, or just a thin
I admit I don’t ride my horse in rain. But since it’s an open-plan horse, it doesn’t matter.
This is also a possibility xD
But I can’t always go to him because I’m only moving next month (he’s moved earlier) and must therefore take advantage of the time I have ^^
At current temperatures? Very normal without any blankets.
In winter you can pack up a kidney blanket.
Jap, but my problem is that after training he is wet and I don’t want to pack a winter blanket on the wet horse afterwards, that’s not healthy ^^
He’s in the open, so I don’t have any chance to put him in the box with a sweat blanket or something…
With us in the open pit we mainly have reindeer countries and there are two boxes a large and a small box and in which is cleaned and saddled during the day before all in winter or in bad weather and sleeping in the night there are two horses in
We’re talking about a horse in the summer fur? How about normal dry riding, after 15 minutes even a foaming horse is dry …
But you’ll have some covered cleaning places where a horse can sweat and dry after work for half an hour. Especially if you have a partially-worn horse, that’s quite fixed.
Then hold a light renal blanket while riding. After riding at Putzplatz (which will be covered?) rub off again, if necessary half an hour a sweat blanket on it and then it should be dry enough to cover it again. So much time you have to take.
But for that, the breathable outdoor blankets are there… they then combine sweating with rain or warm blankets in one. And believe me, we’ve been doing this with our sturdy, covered full-blooded blossoms for 20 years… there’s never been a horse or any problems.
After riding, he’ll be in the open pit. I just don’t want to cover a wet horse, that’s my problem ^^
Well, it’s just important that the sweat production is completely set and the breathing is totally calm… wet from the rain doesn’t hurt…
But… where is the horse going after riding? In the box, on the pasture or what? And what does it say to put on the normal blanket… sorry if I lost the thread now…
In the rain? It’s hard to dry the horse.
Not at all. So I generally don’t ride horses covered. The invest enough energy in temperature management, I don’t have to ask for energy for work.
Okay, fine. Of course everyone has a different opinion ^^
Opinion is nice and good when a factual situation justifies two opinions. But if you think that water would freeze at local air pressure at 100°C, can you really call that opinion? No, because it’s just wrong. Two opinions can be whether red is a beautiful color or not and whether Kohlrabi tastes good or not.
Of course, I thought before I swore my horse and I still think it was a good decision. And as I said, it’s also my decision. I’m glad you disagree, but there’s nothing to say. In particular, because the question was not really answered ^^^
We have halls, so I don’t have the problem 😅. But: I would use a renal blanket if it fits correctly, it does not.
Raincover on it and then keep working so that it is not wet under it