Which Clip?!

Kizza · 12-01-2004, 08:50 AM

Alright. This winter I have and will be going draghunting. It takes quite a lot out of the horse, and makes Dinah sweat quite a lot. She stays in a large, warm barn overnight with 5 horses she gets along relatively well with (except Pierrot, anyway) and goes out in the field in the day time. Giving English weather can change with the clap of a hand, what clip should she get? She needs to be rugged up, because draghunting's getting her weight down and since she gets so sweaty, she needs a clip. We were thinking of a blanket or high trace, since that takes off all it needs to and no excess, but i'm not sure what kind of rug she'll need with each clip. A little help, please?

Moostang · 12-01-2004, 08:56 AM

Check out this thread... I ended up with a trace clip
The different body clips..

minnie_mouse · 12-01-2004, 10:17 AM

if you have different clips you dont need different rugs....im not sure where you are in england but if it anyway near as cold as it is here, where you are....then your horse should be rugged already.....

does your horse get regular excercise? if so...then i would suggest the hunter clip (all body off.....face and legs on) expecially if your going hunting. minnie had a hunter clip when we went hunting and she was DRENCHED all over with sweat. as long as you horse will be properly rugged....but maybe a few rugs on at night....a hunter clip would work.
if you dont want to clip your horse completely out....maybe a blanket clip or trace clip as you said......they will also work....

AshsStorm · 12-01-2004, 10:23 AM

I have one thing to say. NEVER body clip a buckskin. I did it last year and regretted it big time!

That was really random but I just had to warn you. They turn out greyish, blueish, whitish, uglyish.

minnie_mouse · 12-01-2004, 11:05 AM

LOL!!!!! ashsStorm!!!!! im sure he looked fine!!

AshsStorm · 12-01-2004, 12:12 PM

He really did look kinda wierd. We left his head and his legs so he was half buckskin and half.. uh.. a whole new color completely. I felt soo bad. He got a lot of looks though! Lol.

Kizza · 12-01-2004, 01:42 PM

Lol. We're going to ask some advice of Jody (yard manager person) and see what her advice is, concerning the type of clip. My other worry is that she won't like the clippers - it's the yard that'll do it, but my mum's going to make sure she's around when they do incase Dinah plays up, because she's never been clipped nor rugged before. She's just never needed it, because we've only had her one winter before (methinks) and I havent done anything through the winter like I am this winter, because I only got the trailer this last summer. It's all rather confusing...

barrel_babe2 · 12-04-2004, 08:14 AM

dinah wont u blow, dinah wont u blow, dinah wont u blow ur horn
lolz
some ones in the stable with dinah some ones in the stable i know some ones in the stable with dinah stummin on the old banjo
lolz i had to type that!

12-01-2004, 08:50 AM	#1
Kizza Senior Member+ Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: S.Yorkshire, England Posts: 2,647 Images: 208 Blog Entries: 51	Which Clip?! Alright. This winter I have and will be going draghunting. It takes quite a lot out of the horse, and makes Dinah sweat quite a lot. She stays in a large, warm barn overnight with 5 horses she gets along relatively well with (except Pierrot, anyway) and goes out in the field in the day time. Giving English weather can change with the clap of a hand, what clip should she get? She needs to be rugged up, because draghunting's getting her weight down and since she gets so sweaty, she needs a clip. We were thinking of a blanket or high trace, since that takes off all it needs to and no excess, but i'm not sure what kind of rug she'll need with each clip. A little help, please? __________________ Kyrie Emerald Rock & Miss Dynamite "I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you."

12-01-2004, 08:56 AM	#2
Moostang Senior Moderator Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern Calif Posts: 9,795 Images: 680 Blog Entries: 55	Check out this thread... I ended up with a trace clip The different body clips.. __________________ Don't poke bears... give them honey! http://moostangproductions.com

12-01-2004, 10:17 AM	#3
minnie_mouse Senior Member+ Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: england Posts: 4,651 Images: 525	if you have different clips you dont need different rugs....im not sure where you are in england but if it anyway near as cold as it is here, where you are....then your horse should be rugged already..... does your horse get regular excercise? if so...then i would suggest the hunter clip (all body off.....face and legs on) expecially if your going hunting. minnie had a hunter clip when we went hunting and she was DRENCHED all over with sweat. as long as you horse will be properly rugged....but maybe a few rugs on at night....a hunter clip would work. if you dont want to clip your horse completely out....maybe a blanket clip or trace clip as you said......they will also work.... __________________ *****MINNIE ***** - mare of the year....two years running! "I've been Frosted"

12-01-2004, 10:23 AM	#4
AshsStorm Senior Member+ Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: North Carolina Posts: 1,011 Images: 58	I have one thing to say. NEVER body clip a buckskin. I did it last year and regretted it big time! That was really random but I just had to warn you. They turn out greyish, blueish, whitish, uglyish. __________________ RIP Peaches "May You Gallop Through the Fields of Heaven, On Legs as Good as Gold.." ______________________________________________ http://www.livejournal.com/users/ashsstorm/

12-01-2004, 11:05 AM	#5
minnie_mouse Senior Member+ Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: england Posts: 4,651 Images: 525	LOL!!!!! ashsStorm!!!!! im sure he looked fine!! __________________ *****MINNIE ***** - mare of the year....two years running! "I've been Frosted"

12-01-2004, 12:12 PM	#6
AshsStorm Senior Member+ Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: North Carolina Posts: 1,011 Images: 58	He really did look kinda wierd. We left his head and his legs so he was half buckskin and half.. uh.. a whole new color completely. I felt soo bad. He got a lot of looks though! Lol. __________________ RIP Peaches "May You Gallop Through the Fields of Heaven, On Legs as Good as Gold.." ______________________________________________ http://www.livejournal.com/users/ashsstorm/

12-01-2004, 01:42 PM	#7
Kizza Senior Member+ Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: S.Yorkshire, England Posts: 2,647 Images: 208 Blog Entries: 51	Lol. We're going to ask some advice of Jody (yard manager person) and see what her advice is, concerning the type of clip. My other worry is that she won't like the clippers - it's the yard that'll do it, but my mum's going to make sure she's around when they do incase Dinah plays up, because she's never been clipped nor rugged before. She's just never needed it, because we've only had her one winter before (methinks) and I havent done anything through the winter like I am this winter, because I only got the trailer this last summer. It's all rather confusing... __________________ Kyrie Emerald Rock & Miss Dynamite "I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you."

12-04-2004, 08:14 AM	#8
barrel_babe2 Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 22	dinah wont u blow, dinah wont u blow, dinah wont u blow ur horn lolz some ones in the stable with dinah some ones in the stable i know some ones in the stable with dinah stummin on the old banjo lolz i had to type that!

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