Monday, March 12, 2012

A Quick Guide to Horse Clipping

By Emery Z. Lodrigue


Many horse owners usually do not give a second thought to horse clipping. They would certainly be more cautious if they totally understood horse clipping. Horse clipping isn't the same as getting a haircut. In reality, the majority of the unsightly hair which is clipped is important for defense against the hot sun and also other elements. For that reason, many horse owners normally don't clip their horses unless they are getting ready for a show.

Horses normally shed 4 times a year. Though their second winter coat isn't as thick, you will observe, long course hairs. It's a good idea that clipping of horse is done twice each year. The best time is in early May and then again around late July. Should you hold back until July, you will only need to clip your horse once.

After horse clipping, the effects of the diet of your horse is going to be obvious. After horse clipping, the coat is going to be smooth and polished for those horses that have been consuming hard feed or a high protein diet. With such coats, the blades made use of can easily glide through the coat. Even though they are going to have healthy coat, horses fed in the pasture or perhaps hay would not get that sleek shine in their coats in contrast to those horses that feasted on hard feed.

To achieve optimal results, make sure that your horses are in a high protein diet just before horse clipping. If you opt to increase the feed following the clipping, you will not obtain the same results.

The thickness of the coat and also the workload the horse endures each day are where the sort of clip to be used will be based on. By determining the parts of the horse with a lot of sweat, you'll be able to tell which places to be clipped.

If you're not sure of the clip you may use, always lessen the amount that you'll clip. You can always clip the horse again later, but you will be unable to get back what you get rid of.

Belly clip, low/high trace clip, and chaser or Irish clip are definitely the most popular clips utilized. Belly clip is utilized to eliminate the hair just from the underneath of the belly and neck. But if you want to take away the hair from the underside of the belly and neck up to wherever traces will be on driving horse, use a low or high trace clip. There are occasions that people clip the lower half of the head as well. Clipping of the legs just isn't recommended. When working with Chaser, or Irish Clip, draw a line in the top of the head towards the belly in a triangle shape, and clip all of it. Half of the head are clipped but the legs are certainly not.

You should compensate for the clipped coat following horse clipping. Simply provide an additional neck rug and under rug. Ensure that the saddle blankets, girths or maybe rugs truly rub the skin of the horse. Furthermore, if you want to lessen the potential for chaffing, use Vitamin A ointment as well as other moisturizing lotions.




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