Why Will my Horse Not STOP rippping its rugs! GRRR?
Urghh.,Had a Bad day.. Stressed Lol.
Anyway, My horse is a boystruss little thing, he has to wear a muzzle in the feild beacuse he fights over the fence, And he just Keeps ripping his rug.
I spent £100 on his winter turnout. And hes recked it in a few weeks.
Ive had to spend loads on turnouts, stables, and everyting. Its just getting a bit much.
I do send my rugs to be repaird, but then he just does it again.
Is there a cheaper way of doing this. I dont want to just go for the cheapst rug ..but i cant keep spending all my money on my horses rugs.
Moving him to a diff field is not an opption.
Urgh its really starting to get to me everyone wanting horses all the time but their parens say no..My parents are on high income..and my mum is stuggling to pay for One pony..-____-
Anyone else feel the same way?
P.S is there anyway i can make things cheaper.
PP.S I used to have three BSJA ponies and compete. but now due to the credt crunch have just had to sell two 
Only just holding on to one
Please Help
No hes clipped so has to be rugged. Really cold down here. So Deffo has to xx
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Is there any way you can let him go without a rug?
You are talking in pounds sterling, so you are in UK.
Do you REALLY have to rug this pony. Ponies are especially hardy, and weather in Uk doesn’t get too cold so simply don’t put a rug on him!
This is almost spring, so he should just about be out of a rug for this winter. Allow him to go rug free all year and he will start to develop a nice thick winter coat, and will be perfectly fine next winter, thus saving you hundreds.
Before emigrating from UK we had ponies and never rugged them, we simply increased their winter feed to compensate for the winter and them having to keep warm.
Here in Canada it can get to -35, so our horses are all rugged, one guy in particular wrecks his, and the other guy’s rug just for something to do. We are always in and out of the rug mender’s shop and always have to keep a spare for each horse!!!
Good luck!
In the long run, its way cheaper to buy a high denier, and I do nothing less than 1680 myself.. If I do buy the cheaper/lesser denier models, its just a rip fest on my wrecking crew.
I know its more money, but its less in the expenses to replace down the road.
It okay If a horse gets fuzzy in the winter! Thats how horses work. If your horse does not have a rug on he can ruin it.
This is so long i barley read it. dont give him rugs
How does he rip it if he’s wearing a muzzle?
Considering you already clipped him. Next year I would NOT clip him. I don’t know why people do in less you show year around. Clipping horses is just easier because people don’t want to deal with sweat when they ride, so they don’t have to walk their horses around to cool them off.
Second. Keep him inside and for his exercise I would lunge him and take him on walks but I wouldn’t turn him out any more or if you do decide to turn him out with a blanket for 30 mins and let him get his energy out and then bring him back in. Reduce his feed intake so that way he is not being hot fed and because a crazy horse. Get him some toys in his stall.
Nobody is to blame but yourself for what your pony does or cannot do. Like dogs, mean dogs 99.9% of the time are because of the owners. Same things for horses. They are your responsibility and you clipped him and he does not like the blanket “rug” and its FREEZING outside then you just screwed the pooch on that one. You going to have to figure out some sort of way to exercise him without the blanket.
Buy the blanket with the highest “denier” count available. Most blankets have a denier of about 800 while I refuse to get a blanket get a blanket with less than 1200 denier as my TB is very hard on his blankets.
I’d go with the Pessoa Summit Turnout Sheet (it’s lightweight, but it protects the horse from the wind and rain which is what matters and has a denier of 1800!
Hope this helps and good luck!