This message is from: Alice MacGillivray <al...@4km.net>
I have done a very minimal clip this year and if she gets sweaty when it is cool or cold, I put a cooler on her for a while to keep her from getting chilled and to wick away some of the sweat. I don't think we can post pictures here? If you can access Facebook, my most recent post at the moment https://www.facebook.com/alice.macgillivray shows the clip. If you can't see that, it isn't even a low trace clip. I clipped under her chin, down her chest, just back of the girth line. Then from her cheekbones (didn't touch the head) on an angle down to meet the clipping under her chest. Last year I did a low trace clip that extended all along the lower part of her body above the legs, which was OK here where we have relatively mild winters. Here are images of low trace and more extensive clips on the web: https://www.google.ca/search?q=trace+clips+horses&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&e i=uvH1VIHaD46xogSfyYHYDg&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ Hope that helps. Alice MacGillivray > This message is from: Sue Freivald <safreiv...@freivald.org> > A question for those of you who don't blanket -and don't want to blanket - > their Fjords in the winter, but who occasionally need to do enough work > that the horses need to be able to cool off. Do you do any kind of a > partial clip? i.e. throat and chest, back to the girth, or possibly lower > belly? If you do, how has it worked out for you? Sue F. Important FjordHorse List Links: Subscription Management: http://tinyurl.com/5msa7e FH-L Archives: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw FH_L Shirts: http://tinyurl.com/8yky94l
