Do you brush/wash the mud off your horses EVERY night?

on the subject of mud I wonder if any of you could help me please!!!! My new boy is the best horse int he world riding temprament and so on however he is obsessed with mud, totally cakes himself head to toe, even manages to wiggle around in the field and get mud under his rugs. I have tried turn our chaps - useless! Hoodies - again he stil manages to get it through it and he is in the best Rambo rugs - even tried putting 2 on at a time and still it sticks to him. Now when I try and wash it off it is like cement brushing doesn't work and washing doesn't either apart from his legs which clean easily, however other parts of him are now getting sore and going bald. Does anyone have any ideas how to prevent the mud sticking to him and can you use mud guard on other areas apart from legs?? thanks and sorry for being so long!!
 
I take him out the field, pick out his feet and have a quick glance for any life threatening injuries and then put him straight in the stable
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. Life is too short to be cleaning a horse that's only going to get filthy again in the morning
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on the subject of mud I wonder if any of you could help me please!!!! My new boy is the best horse int he world riding temprament and so on however he is obsessed with mud, totally cakes himself head to toe, even manages to wiggle around in the field and get mud under his rugs. I have tried turn our chaps - useless! Hoodies - again he stil manages to get it through it and he is in the best Rambo rugs - even tried putting 2 on at a time and still it sticks to him. Now when I try and wash it off it is like cement brushing doesn't work and washing doesn't either apart from his legs which clean easily, however other parts of him are now getting sore and going bald. Does anyone have any ideas how to prevent the mud sticking to him and can you use mud guard on other areas apart from legs?? thanks and sorry for being so long!!

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Nice stallion, Lochpearl.
Sometimes horses roll a lot in mud because they are too hot in their rugs..so you could try putting fewer rugs on to see if that works.
Or perhaps he is itchy - could he be allergic to his bedding or anything?
Perhaps there are hippo genes in there?
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Pick out her feet religously twice a day because she gets terrible thrush otherwise. I really have to with her, otherwise she gets it bad. I wash off her legs too, as don't like her getting too skanky, but thats just me. She never gets mud fever.
 
oh never wash the body though, as like to keep the oils in her coat etc, and don't like her getting cold at this time of year. I do wash her tail when it gets really manky. But not all the time. She is stabled though.
 

I would suggest he may be too hot aswell. My mare can do this if she is over-rugged, she wallows in the sloppy, watery mud by the gate ways. If she is unclipped during the winter months I only ever rug her in a lightweight. She is blanket clipped at the moment and never wears more than a middleweight - so far, no hippo-style wallowing
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thanks Shilasdair and Kibob, I can see where you are coming from as my last horse by Loch Pearl was like that - he used to over heat however this one is a complete wimp - he's TB, hunter clip - legs and big saddle area unclipped and he is never hot, he is out in a rambo supreme and in the stable with a jumbo wug - some nights also with an under rug too as hew gets cold. I am beggining to believe that I have bought a hippo!!! or a pig as they love the mud too!! I've tried canter coat shine and that doesn't really help. He's on straw and the same feed that he was on before I bought him but he just loves rolling - he doesn't roll in his stable and he doesn't lie down it's just in the mud that he does it!! ARRRRGGHHHH!!!
 
Our fields arent completly boggy so mud on legs isnt too bad - I dont hose her of, but I do try and groom her each night, espec if im riding. Days where im in a total rush she goes to bed dirty im afriad, well apart from picked out feet...
 
Am afraid am another one, hardly grooms during the week legs that are caked in mud and dont wash off either and no mud fever as yet. They do get good grooms at weekends when we go out in public, summer time is lovely and they are groomed every day.
 
Mine have not been bathed since September when did last show. Their legs are covered in pig oil and sulphur which allows worst of mud to slip off.

Their tails are in bags and Chancer's mane is also bagged up. Luckily they don't roll in the mud often as I put them in the school to roll regularly.

If I am riding them I do scrape off the belly and any mud where saddle/bridle go but don't worry about them being 100% mud free.

Chancer has a lot of grooming and bathing in the show season so I like to give him time off from being constantly gleaming.
 
Jerry goes to bed completly mud free, if he has wet mud on he gets his legs hosed, if its dry (not been for a while now
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) then just brushed. Yearlings live out and are left muddy, Spooks comes in at night and only has his legs washed off if they are wet, otherwise leftt muddy as he has feathers and dont like to get them wet very often.

None of mine have had mudfever yet
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I usually just leave it on him then brush it off the next day, allthough did hose his legs down after our hack in sunday as the amount of mud on him was so extreme!
 
No I dont - mine are pretty much left till the weekend - and even then if Im feeling lazy I just chip the worst of the mud off the bits where the tack goes
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I must be one of the worst ones here then - my horse has had the occasional flick over with a brush (maybe once every six weeks) but I haven't groomed her and got all the muck off her since... the end of June! But then I haven't had to ride her I suppose! I am itching to get her back in from the field in April and give her a good bath and clip all that horrible beard off! It's going to take me a week to clean nine months' worth of muck off her!
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Oh and her field is atrocious and none of them have had mud fever (*touch wood*).
As for picking out feet, they get done when the farrier trims them every two months.
At work we have a new policy where every single horse has to have every inch of mud washed off them every single day. It takes forever!
 
I brush mud off head and neck/upper legs every night but don't wash legs as I don't like to expose the skin to cold water all the time. I just put thermatex leg wraps on and they dry the legs out and the mud falls of in the morning.
 
oh dear, brush were saddle goes in winter and that is it, and wispers: put outdoor rugs on mud caked horses of a night, pick feet out after a ride, which is hardly ever at this time of year, and never wash legs.
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I cant stand my horse being dirty, im a bit obsessive about it
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However, my life is also much easier than many of you as we have no turnout. Hes on the walker and out in the school in the mornings so the worse he gets are manky sandy legs.

Usually, unless its really really wet, he's dry by the time i arrive and i can just remove the sand and them groom thoroughly once ive ridden. If its been really bad, he has them hosed off otherwise im paranoid about missing any cuts (this goes back to my last yard when one livery completly missed a puncture wound on her horses leg that went straight through the tendon sheath because she didnt like washing legs:()

Hes flicked off before been ridden and fully groomed before he goes back to bed
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