Cleaning a grey tail?

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How can I get my grey horse's tail clean?
She was very ill recently and there is...er... 'residue' of faecal matter in there (couldn't wash it until now due to medical reasons). The bottom half of the tail is also stained a reddish colour from the soil at the last yard.
Any advice as to how to get it clean would be appreciated.
S :D
 
Wahl Diamond White Shampoo, scrub scrub scrub scrub! Then dissolve a cube of Reckitts Blue in hot water, and dip tail in that a few times, then sponge all over the tail with it - don't rinse it out!
VOILA, super clean tails! I also have a very complicated South African trick to keep tails clean which takes forever to explain...let me know if you'd like the whole saga!
 
Starzaan said:
Wahl Diamond White Shampoo, scrub scrub scrub scrub! Then dissolve a cube of Reckitts Blue in hot water, and dip tail in that a few times, then sponge all over the tail with it - don't rinse it out!
VOILA, super clean tails! I also have a very complicated South African trick to keep tails clean which takes forever to explain...let me know if you'd like the whole saga!
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This post is plenty complicated enough for me.
I don't even know what 'Reckitts Blue' is, or where to obtain it?
Perhaps I should just clip her tail off, and buy her a fake one?
S :D
 
yep discovered that one on a visit to the beach with a horse with a yellow tail!

the normal shop bought stuff works too
 
It's an old fashioned powdery stuff for making laundry white!! You can get it from most hardware stores and online. If you can't find any I can post you some - 50p a cube! It's the most incredible stuff I've ever found - I had eight greys hunting three times a week this season and managed to get them all ready in the mornings by myself with Reckitt's blue!
 
Use a good shampoo then get half a bucket of hot water and add 8 sterident tablets (the ones you put your teeth in to clean if you have the type of teeth that you can take out!!) hold the bucket and place the tail in the bucket give it a swirl around, leave on for 5 mins then shampoo out! voila Minty fresh white tail!!!!
 
Keltic said:
Use a good shampoo then get half a bucket of hot water and add 8 sterident tablets (the ones you put your teeth in to clean if you have the type of teeth that you can take out!!) hold the bucket and place the tail in the bucket give it a swirl around, leave on for 5 mins then shampoo out! voila Minty fresh white tail!!!!
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Ah someone beat me to it ! Sterident are brilliant !!


I am also a massive fan of good old washing up liquid - good stuff mind ! :-)

My mare makes a right mess in her tail with the stuff that comes out of that end so hive it a good brush first with a brush to grap the filth rather than a comb!
 
Shampoo first...I'm using one that's a purple colour, but it's so long since we've been anywhere that I've forgotten what it is. Maybe Gallop? Rinse...and THEN soak in sterident. If you don't shampoo first, you're just soaking your tail in dirty water. Then condition with Tesco's 58p pink conditioner which also smells nice.

If you wash it every week, it gets brighter & brighter & the conditioner seems to stop the dirt sticking.
 
I've been using mild green fairy liquid. It gets the tail clean but not to the sparkling white you'd want for a show. One of my RC colleagues gave me a sample of a product his company markets called 'filthy animal' but I've not tried it yet.
PS on no account use the stuff for net curtains called glo white which a friend recommended. It interacted with the pee and turned my mare's tail orange. She has a gelding so maybe its ok for them as they don't pee down their tails!
 
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