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How many blankets should horses wear in 30 degrees or below weather?
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∙ 13y ago
Horses can stand much colder weather than we can and be perfectly comfortable because of their coat. However,if you clip the coat then they cannot keep themselves warm.
If you do not clip your horse, he will be fine (better off actually) without any blankets! Horses have very good ways of heating themselves without a blanket. However, when you clip a horse, you take this away from them and make them dependant on blankets, which do not do a good job of keeping the horse warm anyways because they do not cover 100% of the horses body. Another thing blankets do is actually cause the muscles they use to heat and cool themselves (they use muscles to lift hairs to create a thermal blanket to keep them warm, to dialate blood vessels to cool themselves off, etc.) these muscles atrophy and cannot be used, so when the horse is too hot under the blanket, they cannot cool themselves off. The best thing to do would be for your horse to be outside 24/7 with no blanket and a full un-clipped coat. This is how they evolved and is how they thrive-not covered in blankets, disabling them from heating and cooling themselves.
**It would be best if you could keep your horse outside for a while in the spring so they can build up to the temperatures before it gets super cold and avoid stalling him at all to prevent goig from warm temperature to cold suddenly**
***Also, make sure to keep a close eye on the horse if it rains and is very cold, because the combination of wet coat and cold temperatures could be bad (not saying it will, but it could) Just make sure you have some kind of run-in shed just in case***
But, if you clip your horses coat, then you will have to experiment because I have no clue how thick your blankets are. So, try nothing, and then come check on him 10-20 minutes later and feel his ears. If they are cold, add a blanket. Check back in 20 minutes. If they are cold, add another blanket. Repeat until his ears are no longer cold.
And whether you blanket or not, remember to give the horse free-choice grass hay, because digesting the hay causes chemical reactions to happen that help warm the horse up. Not alfalfa-this is not grass, it's a legume and legumes are too rich, and can cause life-threatening stones in the stomach that require surgery to remove if fed in more than very small quantities.
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