Everyone got their winter whoolies now?

[Marty]

My horses are all growing their winter hair now so I won't be clipping anyone any more this year~

I'm just doing bridle paths, fetlocks and under the faces tomorrow with baths, but so much for any more body clipping.

But at least I can still add fun scrunchies!

 

[Leeana]

We are geting there..some of the horses that were clipped back in august seem to just be getting in stiff coats...but i have a few that are getting very fuzzy..i have a colt who's hair grows in every direction...here are some from yesterday, here are two of my most fuzzy..

Kitty & Stetson

 

[MiniforFaith]

Hi Marty, yes we are getting the massive case of winter whoolies/ hairballs.. Is it just me or is it getting erlier and earlier?? Our newest addition, Buddy was getting them back when he first got here(Aug).. He is really whoolie now.. Is it normal for the younger ones to get so much more hairy and so much sooner than the others?( He is coming up on 6 months)

 

[Marsha Cassada]

Yes, young buffalos here, too. I'm trying to retain some vague semblance to a horse, though, by trimming heads and feet.

I found a scrunchy artifact in the pasture yesterday.

 

[LittleRibbie]

Even woolies here in S.Florida. And we still have our air on inside!! And still have the fans going in the barn!! Its still hot here!! I have Tues. off and if my blades hold out Im giving my 2 drivers one more good clip and the others partial clips. Marsha I had to laugh at your " scrunchy artifact " I too, found an artifact!! It was a brand new black fly mask that I purchased last year , S'mores managed to loose it on the second day and it had been lost for a year!! Oh well...I knew it would turn up sometime!

 

[Hosscrazy]

I have hairy little ewoks running around! It was cold and rainy over the weekend - we even got a little bit of snow in the mountains around us! So it's a good thing my guys got hairy fast! Bug has turquoise scrunchies in her hair - perhaps I should change her scrunchie color to orange to help her get ready for halloween? LOL!

Liz R.

 

[shelly]

OH YAH!!!!!!!

We have had winter whoolies here for at least a month...all the minis anyways! My arab never gets too much of a winter coat, but he doesn't seem to mind the cold and won't let me blanket him.

 

[Casnos Minis]

Woolie Bears here also. Especially my appy, he always is the first to get woolie and the last to shed out. I just wish my biggie would get a nice winter coat, but on the other hand we don't have to clip much for wintr riding. I only clip his chest and grith area and he's good to go that way.

Christy

 

[Shari]

Hairy, wet and dirty....yup.. about sums it up. Just glad the mini's aren't white! You should see my white Alpaca!

Has one impressive "mud gene".

 

[CheyAut]

Well, they aren't yaks just yet, but they sure have fuzzed up! This morning I shaved heads/necks on four of them, was surprised now much hair they gained! (it's still hot here and doesn't get very cold, so I always keep heads shaved (hate the yak look), and I plan on taking photos of them this week so that's why I did the necks...). I usually leave their ears fuzzy, but I shaved those for the photos I'm going to take. The driving horses also get a VERY small trace clip. Not sure I should even call it that... it's just the underside of their neck and belly, like this:

You can't even see the shaved part on the belly (that's an old photo, but that's not far from what they look like right now, fuzz-wise)

Jessi

 

[miniaddiction]

On the contrary....mine are starting to shed

:SoHappy

 

[Rebecca]

Oh we have the start of some yaks here, but they need it because brrrrrrr its cold! The high temperature for the past week has been 40F during the day, and ridiculous numbers below zero at night. :Cold-Scared

 

[susanne]

Just a few miles (and a drastically different microclimate) can make a huge difference! We're not far from Shari (just down Hwy 30), but nobody is all that hairy yet...our hairiest isn't very...

However, they are very wet, and Scarlet is downright disgraceful with all of her white. All year round she pees in her tail, but now we can add rain and mud to the delight.

I need to trim tails to keep them out of the mud, but I keep putting it off, as Flash's tail is so dramatically beautiful -- it looks like a long, graceful skirt.

Mingus' coat is now about where most mini coats are in summer -- no longer slick and shiny (unless it's due to rain), but no fuzz. Thelonius is into his fall roan coloring, but I gave him a new look for winter -- he had rubber out a good chunk of mane so I roached it, and it looks adorable on him.

 

[Charlie Horse Acres]

I am actually a bit worried. We had such a strange wet start to summer that they did not shed good until late and now they have not even started on thier woolies yet. Today was our first chilly day but even my paint usually starts his fuzzy hair early and nothing. I don't want to blanket them because I want them to get thier natual fuzzys but if they don't start getting them soon I may have to tuck them in at night. And my new broodmare will not go into her shelter!!! And she is the one I am so excited about her baby. I think she is just doing this to raise my bloodpreasure!!