Any tips on getting a grey back to original colour?

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Hi everyone,
New to the forum and all but already having a problem. I got my first ever horse 2 months ago, she's a lovely sj 16.1hh ISH mare. Have been told by previous 30year old owner that the mare is a complete psycho and that she has to have a pelham with curb chain. 2 moths later, horsey happily hacking, jumping, schooling and going x-country in a french link snaffle with me, a 15 year old :D true, doesn't stop as easily and needs a bit of shouting at especially when i'm trying to come back to trot on hacks but apart from that is going very well :) and now we're coming to my question, she has the so called at our yard 'grey syndrome' meaning, all greys at yard will roll in anything thats suitable to roll in just to get dirty anything from leaves to poo. yet the bays, roans and spotties don't do that :/ how strange? in 2 weeks i have my first show with her and am already getting nervous, but how do i get my grey back to its original colour? ironically she's called Shiny, and i can never achieve that effect with her, constant washing doesn't seem to help, especially with mane, tail, bum and legs, body isn't bad and neither is neck or face. i don't particulary want to spend a fortune on whiteners but anyone has any ideas?
thank you :D
picture of my baby being a bit retarded as sopped eating cuz there was something incredible to look at... a bird :)
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Hello Shiny-ISH, Your horse looks beautiful.
It's many years since we had a grey horse. I see there are shampoos for greys on the market, but I do not know their price or efficiency.(sorry). We made a terrible mistake many years ago, preparing our pure white ponies for an important show. We thought we would be clever and out-shine all the other greys in the show and use blu-bag. It was something added to a whites-wash for the laundry. Ponies were fine.... but we were the only blue equestrians on the showground. Most embarrassing !
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Hope someone has the answer for you soon,
Tegs :)
 
My first pony was blue & white and was always intent on getting dirty if there was a show to go to. She used to roll in elderberries and end up purple, jump out of her stable :rolleyes: go roll in the school & end up orange or remove her rug and end up poo coloured. I have since owned a lot of brown horses :D

Fairy liquid did work wonders & bath on the day if you can. then wrap up & do not remove until you have to :)
 
I use fairy washing up liqued or any shampoo but they must be blue coloured and Gold Label show white paste mix them together and rub on leave for a couple of minutes and rinse off, I dont have a grey but this makes my chestnuts white legs sparkle and it isnt expensive.
 
If it makes you feel better, my chestnut is the filthiest horse I've ever owned, and the yard has ever seen. He can find mud in a perfectly dry, beautifully grassy field and go from clean to covered head-to-toe in a matter of seconds after turnout. There're two greys and two coloureds on our yard, and he's always filthier by far than all of them.

With my last grey it was a lot of a washing-up liquid baths followed by a good wipe down with baby wipes (when dry from bath) to try to keep any more accumulating dust from sticking - makes it easier to brush off again.
 
EEEE! when i wur! a lass :D:p, we used to use dolly blue bag (dilute well) and use final rinse,so you dont turn your horse blue, but we also used to use fairy bar soap, for bodies, 2001 carpet cleaner (on the ends of tails)
a vanish bar will/does work well on stains, as does white vinagar,
 
DAZ but make sure you patch test first for alergies - you don't want to end up with a bald horse and make sure you RINSE THOROUGHLY!! For same reason.
 
I think u should invest in a couple packet of hair dye and turn her brown. Or swap with a friend for a nice clean spotty arab. Lol
 
Call him a skewbald! :)

In all seriousness though you should get blue and purple shampoo. The blue will get rid of grass stains or other green stains and the purple for yellow stains.
 
Tesco Head & Shoulders shampoo, work into coat with a brush, leave for 10 mins then wash off thoroughly, leaves skin nice & clean as well
 
I use Tesco cheap shampoo for body mane and tail. I also condition tail with cheap Tesco condition and just try to keep on top of it by spot washing. I also use showsheen in her tail and mane once a week which really seems to help anything getting too ground in. If really struggling I use chalk or talc if we have a competition.

She's almost white now as seen in pic on left.

Which someone would come up with a hair dye for horses I'd change her to a liver chestnut :D
 
Touch of silver old ladies shampoo from the chemist for the tail, leave it on for 10mins, lovely sparkly tail. For bodies i've used Equifoam & thats very good, or when i run out, good old fairy liquid!! & add some of the old lady shampoo to it (not too much as it's not cheap!)
 
1st attempt at getting her back to original colour today, fairy liquid! lots and lots of it :D a sponge and a brush. got most of it off but knowing my horse it'll be green and yellow by tomorrow anyway, didn't like me washing near her ears and then wasn't talking to me when to came up with a damp sponge to wash her face, she looked the other way and pretended she's not there yet while i was washing her face she kept putting her ears up and lip up just slightly as to not let me know that she likes it, even thou when she thought i wasn't looking she was all happy about it standing there with her lip curled up lol, funny pony :) washing again next weekend and weekend after that, then might put some chalk white stuff on legs just before show, it seems to be quite cheap. thanks for ideas everyone :)
spotsrock: doubt i'll be swapping with you ;p if i really can't get her grey again i'll just say she's a mutated rainbow coloured pony. :D x
 
LOL.

When i worked at a livery yard i was the dogsbody who brought all the horses in and groomed them and the single grey took longer than every other horse put together.

and people would say its just because it shows up more but it wasnt, when it was muddy he would be caked and the others would just have a couple of patches :@

and it might help, but understandably he would get a bit narky after a while, especially around his face so i'd pop an extra strong mint in my mouth. id a bit deeper and blow up his nose, and it seemed to keep his attention while i did his face and ears.
 
lemon fairy liquid and scrub its brill and better than nay horse product as is baby oil for sweet itch - dont know why but hey it worked for my mare last 2 years and soooooooooooooo cheap :)
 
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