Do you trim your horse's whiskers/ears?

[PapaFrita]

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...

 

[Weezy]

Ears when pressed together and thats it!

 

[PapaFrita]

So you rather like the catfish look too, eh?

 

[Weezy]

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!

 

[PapaFrita]

Yep. Agree with you

 

[Tia]

Nope. Au naturale pour moi.

 

[Enfys]

More facial fuzz than any whiskery old man on all of mine ! I used to trim the clipped horses though.

 

[pottamus]

Just tidy up the billy goats gruff along his chin line in winter...but don't touch ears or muzzle whiskers.

 

[idefixbis]

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.

 

[S_N]

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!!

 

[zizz]

Not allowed to trim whiskers if i want to show mine in affilated AHS classes anyway!!

 

[LEC]

Everything comes off mine! I have been bought up in a trimming obsessed house and it has rubbed off.

 

[Irishcobs]

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.

 

[RunToEarth]

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

Monty has a 'tash and that has to go!!!!

 

[RachelB]

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!

 

[madhector]

just ears when pressed together, mines a catfish too

 

[virtual]

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).

 

[amandaco2]

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!

 

[Weezy]

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?!

 

[S_L_J]

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

Sophie x x x

 

[cosmo]

ears when pressed together and whiskers off (but not natives)!

michelle xxx

 

[Joya]

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

 

[x_Hannah_x]

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.

 

[madgirl]

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Ears when pressed together and thats it!

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ditto

 

[madgirl]

actually do the bridle path too

 

[_Jazz_]

Ears when pressed together and thats it!

 

[Gentle_Warrior]

should never trim wiskers - and only trim ear hair to the level of the ear

 

[sherwood']

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!

 

[Chex]

Never trim whiskers, rarely do outside of ears. Whiskers are important to the horses in my opinion.

 

[ladylisa]

I like to trim ears, but my mare wont let me anywhere near hers so i just stick to trimming her beard ( jaw line sorry she might not like me for saying beard )