Grey horse owners: a poll

How often is your grey dirty?

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Just for fun :D

I would like to know how often your grey horses get mucky :D

Bentley literally has mud / grass / poo stain on him Every Single Day- I would say 'without fail' but that would imply he was doing in intentionally :eek: :rolleyes: :D

Perhaps you just dont see the marks on darker coloured horses but I am certain Bentley enjoys getting dirty in celebration of the fact it can be easily seen :rolleyes: :D
 
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Or are the darker colours just a case of 'what lurks beneeath' :P

haha anyway...our grey is ok, stays pretty clean, though stains are off as soon as they appear lol. He's our OCD horse!

Grey youngster however is a different story....he is just rank every waking second! lol.
 
My grey is great, very rarely dirty. In 3 years he has probably had about a dozen stable stains, all of which have brushed out easily, a few have needed some elbow grease but that's all. He doesn't shine though, and I would soooo love him to shine for shows but whatever I use or however much grooming I have done its just never happened!
 
My grey is really dirty, stable stains every morning and rolls the second he's out.
Gave him a bath today, the little monkey got away from me charged down the field found the dirtiest bit he could and rolled about 3 times before I got him.
 
My grey mare is a dirty witch - she likes to lie with her head in poo, and I frequently find it inside her not-so-small ears. She is incredibly messy in her box too, which amazes me as she can be a right princess about muddy patches when we're out hacking :P
 
My Ardennes x is a strawberry roan, but he is more grey in summer. Can he count?

I turn him out without looking at him and pray it rains......
 
Mine is a mud magnet and we have plenty of the brown stuff for her to wallow in. She also has a lovely habit of rolling just before you bring her in to get ridden!
 
We have 2 greys - full brother and sister (well if you put a grey mare to a grey stallion, must a high chance of breeding a grey?) - and they are both filthy. One rolls every single day if it is muddy - and the other always lies with her head on her droppings at night

my bay mare on the other hand is immaculate, rarely rolls and never seems to have stable stains
 
When I bought my grey mare I did actually ask if she was a mud monster or kept herself clean (I had been looking for a dark gelding lol!) Her owner said she was a clean girl and not a mud wallowing hippo - if ever there was a case for giving false information when selling a horse that was it! She is a mud monster!

She lives with 2 black horses and a bay when it is warm but still muddy and she has gone out naked I dread what I will find when I go down to see her in the evening - it is just her as the other 3 are never plastered in mud.

She is the type of horse to roll in the poached area inside the gateway make a horse sized flat patch.

I have watched her in the winter kneel before rolling so as to apply mud to the front of her face, forelock and cheekbones. Once in the lying down position she will stop to grind the side of her face and neck into the mud before having a good roll over and over to achieve max application to her mane. When she gets to her feet she will often have a little buck I think this may be an effort to apply mud to her belly / between her front legs.

I have bought her a snuggyhood for this winter with ears - mwah ha ha!

Edited to add in the stable she is like other posters a poo pillow monster. She is actually very clean in the stable but always has some poo on her face in the mornings!
 
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Filthy. Also has stable stains, always rolls. Wonder though if it isn't a bit of a vicious circle - keep washing pony who in turn wants to smell like a horse so keeps rolling...
 
I have had 3 greys- well 2 greys and one very light palamino out of 4 ponies/horses... current horse is self-cleaning! :p rarely gets dirty, although the other day i washed him and took him for a walk... without a rug on... he rolled in the mudiest patch... i nearly cried! LOL..
i reckon they enjoy getting dirty more than other horses :p
he does roll a lot but he never gets dirty- weird horse, hence the self-cleaning! :p :D
He is known for being sparkling clean! :D
 
My mare gets dirty every day - usually poo stains cos she lies down in the stable every night and obvioulsy rolls :eek: I haven't yet found any poo stain remover that really works!

No problem in winter cos she's rugged up but in summer I go through lots of shampoo :)
 
Axel gets dirty every day, if he's in he will have at least 2 stable stains on him, he rolls in the gateway when I turn him out in the winter and gets plastered.
At the moment he is a mixture of stable stains and green grass stains!

I used to work for a dressage rider who's GP horse was a grey and I had to wash him every day or he would have been permanently stained yellow!
 
My grey knows she is beautiful and likes to keep it that way, she very rarely will roll in her poo, i always catch her lyeing down at the front of her stable so she doesnt lie in her poo :p hahaha

im going to regret posting this i bet i will go up and see her with poo on her face now hahaa lmao
 
i once had a grey who seemed to have this permenantly green yellow stain on one of his quarters! however much my mum and i would scrub (my mums cleaning is out of this world!) it would not go away! there would always be this faint splodge of yellow. luckily he was fleabitten so that sort of disguised it!
 
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