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lets see those body clips :)

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i'll start... here is Maddy:
 

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#16 · (Edited)
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.
 
#17 ·
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
 
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i i would have clipped more but she was a freak about it haha.
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.
 
#18 ·
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.
Thats cute :)

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.

~AL615
 
#31 ·
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

cute pony !
 
#32 ·
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

cute pony !
She is a real darling and a joy to own :D

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.
 
#33 ·
i dont look at a twitch as being brute force. it releases endorphins & has a natural calming effect.
 
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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.
 
#40 ·
not possible if you show in the winter =]

im not sure where everyone is from, but when its cold they get hot a lot faster than many people think they will
 
#41 ·
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.
 
#47 ·
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.
 
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