Do you trim your horse's whiskers/ears?

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I know showing people do, and Fabian thinks whiskers should be removed and fluff from inside ears too. My farrier agrees with him and says 'You shave don't you?!' I replied that I don't use my armpits to find food on the ground, or feel my way in the dark but he didn't think that was a good enough argument. Go figure.
Personally, I don't trim although F says PF looks like a sea lion or a catfish... sometimes both...
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My YO (who used to have a daughter winning at HOYS etc) is very handy with a razor and you have to hold her back from whipping whiskers off - but my view on it is that I am not showing, those whiskers do a job, so why lose them!
 
More facial fuzz than any whiskery old man on all of mine ! I used to trim the clipped horses though.
 
Can't do ears as Joshua hates anything going near his ears and it isn't worth having problems over.
Don't do whiskers as I feel it is unkind and that he needs them.
 
I clicked Other, as I hate to trim, but had to for the small amount of showing that I did this year - though I was reprimanded at the BEF evaluation (not by a judge though) for not stripping H's ears out - I was NOT gonna do that to a foal in late August, that I wanted to live out all winter!!
 
Everything comes off mine! I have been bought up in a trimming obsessed house and it has rubbed off.
 
Only the sticky out bits when the ears are squeeshed together on Hattie during winter as she has a head clipped. In the summer because they are traditionals I don't trim anything, but I hate trimmed whiskers. I no a horse that won't eat if her whiskers are trimmed.
 
I would take to coloured's ears if I had any hope of getting near them. Unfortunately he is very headshy so I have furryeared ponio
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Monty has a 'tash and that has to go!!!!
 
Whatever I can get off from the bit that sticks out of her ears (she's funny about her ears though), and her beard! Never whiskers or anything like that though!
 
I trim inside ears and whiskers for any horses/ponies I'm showing (non-natives), but leave them on anything else, just trimming the extra fluf on the ears.

I've never heard of any horse having a problem with not having whiskers or not having ear hair (eg bumping into things, loosing weight from not feeling food etc).
 
in summer i take whiskers,ear fluff all off if im showing.if not its trimmed a little but left on.
shantih doesnt mind the clippers in her ears but she does try to eat them when im doing her muzzle!
 
See we kept whiskers intact in Spain as we found that on the sandy earth the horses that had trims were more likely to present wth sandy muzzles and I had 2 wth impaction colic which I think can pretty much be traced to the fact they were eating/feeling closer to the ground (well the alfalfa put out for them) - if that makes sense?!
 
We trim the ears if we can but one of our is very, very headshy having been hit around the head a few too many times & consequently mad deaf ... so he's a fuzzy ear fellow as you've got NO hope there!

Whiskers are usually left
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Nope, dont trim either, Gem looks like the bearded lady, she wont let me go near them with eanything remotley trimming, and I dont show, so it doesnt bother me lol
 
big bug bear of mine, would never cut whiskers/ears or anything like, just really dont like doing it, no matter how smart it is supposed to make them look.
 
Yea i do as for shows it makes them look much nicer and better turned out especailly for show classes and working hunter but even in any discipline!
 
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