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| I live up in Indiana- where it's already snowed a few times (much to my dismay). I have a 5 year old gelding who I had shipped up here from Texas back in April. Now I do blanket my horses, I have another 8 year old gelding, but he's grow a decent amount of hair and is nice and fluffy. That being said, my 5 year old is still summer slick and shiney. How worried do I need to be about him going into winter? Just buy extra blankets and have extras on hand for when it gets really cold? Last year we had weeks of nothing but negative temperatures straight for weeks. I do stall at night and when it's nasty out I leave them inside then too  |
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Location: Kentucky | I wouldn't worry just yet. I have one that's a wooly bear and one that is still slick. The long nights are just now really kicking in full force early. The short days are what promotes the hair growth, not the temps. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | AmazingStretch - 2014-11-05 9:21 AM I live up in Indiana- where it's already snowed a few times (much to my dismay). I have a 5 year old gelding who I had shipped up here from Texas back in April. Now I do blanket my horses, I have another 8 year old gelding, but he's grow a decent amount of hair and is nice and fluffy. That being said, my 5 year old is still summer slick and shiney. How worried do I need to be about him going into winter? Just buy extra blankets and have extras on hand for when it gets really cold? Last year we had weeks of nothing but negative temperatures straight for weeks. I do stall at night and when it's nasty out I leave them inside then too
Does he seem cold, I would just keep a good blanket on him and dont worry about it. |
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| He's not acting cold at all- Which is what is even more surprising to me, it's just another day to him  |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | AmazingStretch - 2014-11-05 9:58 AM He's not acting cold at all- Which is what is even more surprising to me, it's just another day to him
Well I would say thats good, I bet in time he will start to grown some hair, what part of Texas did he come from, maybe hes liking that cold weather coming from the Texas heat. Hes still on Texas time, LOL I bet next year he will get with it and start growing his hair when the time comes. All my boys here are still slick, well just a bit fluff today, with all the rain and cooler weather we are having. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | My 3 year old is still slick. She may not have long winter hair and it may not look thick, but she was fluffed out and warm when it froze the other night. |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | i had a mare shipped up here from texas a few years ago, she got here end of september......and she was slick and SHINEY and freezing...lol, she would stand at the trailer or in the barn and she would shiver so hard her teeth rattled....i had to keep her blanketed all winter, she never really did grow any hair that first winter......now she is as wooly as the rest(i dont keep her blanketed as she gets the winter off)
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| Just keep some blankets handy. I have brought several to Montana from warmer areas and some just don't hair up that first winter or two. |
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Location: South Georgia | I wuld blanket him this first winter. |
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Location: Choctaw, Oklahoma | I've had this issue coming up from texas to oklahoma. For the first winter we kept blankets on ours. They showed signs of being cold though. If he didn't shiver or huddle up I wouldn't worry about it. Of he's stalled keep an eye on light exposure. Don't want lights on too long into dusk hours, this tricks them into not growing hair. |
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