Horse Clip not growing back in?

[Miranda_and_Oscar]

Hi all,

I had my horse clipped back in November (just a partial clip- his neck, chest and girth area). It hit me as odd the other day when I noticed that it has not grown back in…at all. Like not even a small amount. I clipped him last year and it grew back at a normal rate (I’m not sure how long it took but I didn’t notice it not growing back I guess). I was at the farm last week admiring him from afar (:D) and it hit me that it is odd for him to not have any fur grow back after 4 months.

He is blanketed obviously but I try to be careful not to over-blanket him. In October he did change from being outside only 8 hours a day to being turned out 24/7 (which he is MUCH happier with). He is shedding the rest of his winter coat normally and nothing else seems to be wrong. Just curious if anyone has experienced this out of the blue (as in, last year he grew his coat back in quicker).

[lifeishorsesarelove]

You’re probably just not noticing the growth. If you clipped him partially, then the clipped areas would grow at the same rate as the unclipped parts, so they’ll seem the same as when you clipped him. The clipped areas won’t grow in faster than the rest - the clip lines won’t blur and diaappear until he’s nearly done shedding.

I bet if you take your clippers to him again with the same blades, they would leave a noticeable shorter patch than the rest that’s clipped. If you’re really not convinced you could always do that on an inconspicuous area like his under belly.

[cayuse]

What lifeishorses said is what I just experienced with my welsh pony. I trace clipped him in late Oct. and I “thought” he grew no coat. I just clipped him last week and boy was I wrong. He had grown quite a coat, I just could not see past the lines of demarcation left from the last clip. He was pretty wooly.

[Miranda_and_Oscar]

I guess that’s a good thought. I will keep waiting I suppose. I just love his sleek summer coat so I hope it doesn’t inhibit it and look funky!

[RedHorses]

Where I live we have winter from late November through March. The horses grow their winter coats and are pretty well done by mid December. There will be very little growth after that point, but not none. Sometime in February the new summer coat starts to push out the old winter hair.

When I clip determines how much fuzz the horse grows back. If I clip in October I have to clip again in November or early December. I like to have some growth for January’s cold so I don’t want to leave it too late. I once clipped just after New Year and there was effectively no growth as they were swapping over from winter coat production to summer coat production.

None of those clips have affected the spring shed or resulting summer coat. I clip at the end of May to deliberately affect the summer coat.

[PonyPenny]

Clipping has no effect on hair growth.

[Highflyer]

I bodyclipped in late October but left a saddle patch, and traceclipped in January. You can still see both sets of lines, but the amount of shedding on the parts that were clipped not at all/ once/ twice is dramatically different. I WISH the clip would stay forever!

[Chestnut_Mare1]

It’ totally normal for some horses not to regrow the clipped hair. You’e lucky - some horses need to be clipped many times each winter because the hair grows back. My mare does not grow her hair back after clipping. She just sheds out the unclipped areas as the summer coat grows in.