We're going to chest clip Caleigh because her winter coat is so thick she just sweats and sweats and then doesn't dry or cool off well at all. She has a blanket, well a couple blankets to keep her warm after we clip her. She's never been clipped so it'll be a learning experience. We're going to take it nice and slow. I do tend to like the furry. Although I leased a horse a while back who was clipped to represent every holiday his owners could do. If I can dig up some old pictures I'll scan and post em. He had a pumpkin on his butt for Halloween and jiggle bells and ornaments for Christmas, they didn't do thanksgiving that I can remember I don't think he had grown the fur back in time.
sorry for the long post. I like seeing peoples clips. Some are very interesting.
i clipped rhydian because the barn i rode her at was not heated so it was FREEZING ! but i wanted to show her over the winter & the winter shows are at heated barns where its at least 40degrees warmer. if i hadnt clipped her at all she would have sweated buckets from being so hot. she had problems regulating her body temp anyways so it was a must. i would have clipped more but she was a freak about it haha. i think its really mean to take your horse to a heated barn to ride & not clip them if they have been used to being outside all winter. they just get so hot you cant hardly ride them
How did you go about clipping if she was a little freaky about it? The lady I bought Caleigh from said she'd been clipped only once and when I ran the clippers (really quiet and cordless) she tensed and backed away. We were going to have the vet sedate her a little but the sedation did nothing when we had her teeth done and the vet doesn't want to experiment with more.
He had a pumpkin on his butt for Halloween and jiggle bells and ornaments for Christmas, they didn't do thanksgiving that I can remember I don't think he had grown the fur back in time.
I can see why one would want to clip their horses coat for proper body heat regulation when working. We had a cushings horse at the barn I used to ride at that would grow such a long wavy coat and poor thing would sweat like crazy if he was worked, so it made sense to help him out a bit, give him a "breather" so to speak.
i guess my situation was a bit different. the horses owner doesnt ride her in the winter so she was never gonna body clip her again once i sent her home. i just needed to get it done in the 2hr window that i was at my friends barn. she actually really liked the lip twitch, she fought it for about 3 minutes then she was great
i guess my situation was a bit different. the horses owner doesnt ride her in the winter so she was never gonna body clip her again once i sent her home. i just needed to get it done in the 2hr window that i was at my friends barn. she actually really liked the lip twitch, she fought it for about 3 minutes then she was great
Don't get me wrong, I do understand the usefulness of a twitch and when time is a limiting factor for a rare procedure the means can justify the end. We used a shoulder pinch on the TB when she got a really nasty case of ringworm on her chest a couple of years ago and started dancing around when we tried to put the cream on, but for clipping which is likely to happen 3 times a year year in year out, I think it better to educate to cooperate than use a brute force method.
I see it as that as well, but you can make a horse very head shy with the practice when you twitch a lip. This indicates to me that they really don't like it.
There is a saying - Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me !
They soon associate a twitch with something they would not voluntarily stand for. This is wy I dislike its use with clipping.
Stencilbum- welcome to the forum! I've seen that picture of your super cute pony floating around online. I think i actually laughed outloud the first time I saw it! That is hysterical! Thanks for your explanations, very informative!
Clipping is a Godsend. It's not realistic for performance horses who show or are in training to just have the winter off. Nor is it realistic to expect the wooly ones to dry off with a cooler in under 10 minutes. With proper blanketing your horse stays warm and clipping is a win win situation for everyone.
I use the still picture as part of a 4 minute video of the clipping system when I do the trade shows and it is surprising how many people will hang around to see it loop again as they usually give a similar response to yours :lol:
It looks complicated, but it really was very straightforward to do.
I thinking clipping is necessary if you plan on working your horse significantly over the winter. Esp if you work in a heated barn. Otherwise they overheat and it takes hours to cool them down.
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