Ever have one of those days...

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Auslander

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When everything you touch turns to crap?
First I clipped Ivan's head. I did not notice that i had surgical blades on my trimmers. He looks like he has a severe case of face mange.
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That was probably the point where I should have stepped away from anything appearance altering. I did not.
I went and got my faintly yellow horse in from the field, bathed him (that bit went fine) then the farrier arrive d to shoe him, which gave me plenty of thinking time. "I know" thought I, I'll go old school on the yellow tail. Out came the laundry bluing. Did I carefully measure out the correct amount? I did not. I poured a plentiful dollop in the bucket of water, and shoved his tail in it, several times.
SLightly alarmed by the fetching shade of aqua his tail had gone, I rinsed, and re-rinsed, then rinsed again. Still aqua.
SO I did what any sensible person would do. I plastered it in purple conditioner, on the basis that it might get rid of the green tinge.
It did not. It just added a few more colour dimensions, none of which would rinse out, even with neat fairy liquid
I finally came to my senses, put away my White Horse Survival Kit, and resigned myself to owning a big macho Irish Draft who is temporarily identifying as a mermaid...
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Yonks ago, a friend was borrowing my mostly white coloured pony for an outing and I decided I better wash her the day before.
Dutifully bathed her with blue shampoo, let it sit before washing it off and oops... Forgot I had to dilute this particular brand...
One very blue tinged pony out in the field the next day 🤭
 
I once loaned a grey horse to a demo where they painted a skeleton on one side and muscles on the other.

I was assured it would wash out at the end of the day.

It did not.

Sadly, the horse was out in public the day after.

Sadly, no 2, it had washed out enough that you couldn't tell what the staining was - he just looked mucky.
 
I once took a horse up north hunting with a friend (at a very fancy hunt, not near me). Bathed him, washed a stable rug as he was staying in at hers overnight. Got there in the morning to find that the stable rug had dyed him blue, so I had to take a blue horse hunting.
 
My cob bears the visual effects of my clipping every day. The actual clipping I am pretty good at for a self taught groom. However, I often catch his long, luxurious locks. This is not immediately an issue, but a few months down the line we have random tufts from 'that clip in *insert month here*'. I might go back to half neck to solve this issue...

That tail does look rather colourful. 🤭
 
Put one to two teaspoons of bicarbonate of soda in a bucket of hot water, really hot, just so that you can bear your hand in and then stick the tails hairs (not dock) into that and it should bring the colour out. Its also good for getting tails white. Then give it a good go with conditioner (plain color) as bicarb can be a bit drying. Hope that helps. Lovely horse by the way.
 
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