[PreppyxCowgirl]

if you ride a horse daily in the winter and you do not clip them?

[freedom32]

If you live in a colder climate and you don't clip your furry horse, you have to take time to cool him out and make sure he is dry. Also lots of grooming and sponge baths to get rid of the dried sweat.

[PreppyxCowgirl]

i want to clip, but i need to convince my dad 1st, he thinks it is wrong and the horse will get too cold, but my horse is colicky and i dont want him to colic from me not cooling him down properly

[freedom32]

Well one thing to keep in mind, clipping means blanketing. And its good to have more than one winter blanket on hand in case one gets wet or soiled.

[PreppyxCowgirl]

i have blankets, i just want to clip sooo bad but my dad is being retarded and wont let me

[powertomyhorse7]

clipping keeps them cool

[Shotgun93]

On top of making it much easier and less time consuming to properly cool the horse down, it can also affect the health. A horse that sweats heavily because he is woolly is much more likely to dehydrate quickly. And, in a colder winter when horses tend to not drink enough water as it is, they most likely won't replenish their water. This can cause all sorts of problems from electrolyte imbalance to colic.

[Lindsayanne]

I ride 3-4x a week in the winter and don't clip. It's really not a huge deal. I live in MO so the winter averages in the 30's and lower 40's. sometimes warmer, sometimes (a lot) colder. I've never had a problem.

The cold itself really does help regulate their sweat so unless you're schooling over grand prix courses their sweating really will go down proportionately with the temperature. It takes a long, hard workout of mostly canter work to get my horse drenched in the winter, and the average lesson ususally just gets him a little soggy under the saddle pad.

With my unclipped horse in the winter, I keep old bathtowels handy. When I've spent a few minutes cooling out under saddle, I dismount, put my horse in crossties in the middle of the (relatively warm) barn, pull my tack off and towel dry the damp areas a little, maybe fluff with a brush, then go about my business putting away tack, talking with my trainer, or redoing his tail bag. By the time I'm done with that, his coat has wicked the moisture away from the skin, so just the tips of the hair are wet, and as long as it's above freezing he's fine to go out like that. Below freezing and I'll do another round of towel trying and wait for him to totally dry.

It really doesn't add that much time to my routine and it's certainly less time than I'd spend blanketing and unblanketing and changing blankets and worried about whether my horse is too/not enough warm all winter!

[cassidy]

it simplymeans if you do hard work with your horse they will simply get very sweaty very easily

[SecretAgent]

EITHER
your horse explodes
OR
absolutley nothing, it's just a little tougher to keep them dry