> amazed at the difference this has made in my mare. I bought the Double > KK clippers and she FLIES up the mountain like a mountain eating > machine. (Of course she is in pretty good shape...but i KNOW the > clipping has helped). I live in Longmont Colorado and we have had some > WARM almost hot days along with our typical spring cool ones. But this > is the BEST advice ( clipping) i have followed!
thank you! I need news of clipping info whenever possible! The last two rides Tivar was so dramatically more comfortable. he is new here so I dont know if he finally acclimatized (nw fla near ala) but I was beginning to worry he wasn't gonna be physically happy here! In the winter he had all that hair and would be actually huffing and panting on the warmer days when it was around seventy, then it would freeze and I wouldnt feel like riding long rides, then I bodyclipped just underneath and one ride it seemed to make no difference! That was when I began to worry, because if I clipped and he was still too hot and huffing and panting, then that was not good! But now he doesnt even breathe hard! I am thinking next winter I will clip him totally and keep him clipped/ I blanket my horses only when a hard freeze, down in the 20s and teens, only a few times a year. It won't be that much trouble just to blanket him on these cold cold nights, rather than feel terrible on a ride with him hot and panting! But maybe it was just the acclimatization. I won't know til next winter. But it is just a huge relief he is gonna be able to exert here without huffing and lathered, he was barely sweaty today! But there is nothing to clip now! he has shedded already. yay! Does your horse still have winter fur? Janice-- yipie tie yie yo
