Headcollars at dawn.........!!

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Hi everyone,
I thought this might raise a smile among you....
When I got home from work on Friday I discovered my two horses had a "handbags at dawn" moment, or more appropriately, headcollars at dawn...I have no idea which one started it but I can hazard a guess!!
I have a retired (blind) gelding and I suspect he started it.
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He and my mare don't like each other much and graze in seperate paddocks with "grooming and visitation rights" over a post and rail fence....I suspect he pulled first! I found a huge hank of chestnut mane in his paddock (he is almost black) and in my mares paddock I found a huge hank of black mane....
For my retired gelding its not an issue....for my mare it is (well, for me) as we compete affiliated dressage. Her mane is now about 7 inches from the start to behind her ears...the rest of her neck has a few wisps (literally) that are about quarter of an inch long....his once Andalusian-style mane is now missing a 6 inch gap smack bang in the middle......

I am not sure what to do as she will look truly ridiculous with about 5 plaits just behind her ears...I think I will have to take her mane off to about 2-3 inches in length and let her go unplaited.......I have to admit I laughed like a maniac when I saw what they had done to each other...
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I have seen them have spats and they fall out like children, usually resulting in the mare letting the top rail have both barrels.....
Any suggestions welcome...and hogging it off isn't an option, she's a Hano.......
 
Im sorry, but Im laughing too hard to think of a useful suggestion!
Pull her mane and keep some of the hair you pulled out to braid into false plaits? To put in for dressage, maybe by sewing them in..
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PSML! That would've made a great photo! ='] I can't really imagine her mane.. but pulling it is a definent option make it look even and should look alright I would've thought. Um.. Are you going to stop the gelding reaching her now? Eletric tape or something? Or you just going to hope for the best that he doesn't hog her for you
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Happy bird, the picture you have of a chestnut looking over a door is very like my mare!
I have just been out to do last hay and water and I must admit I am still laughuing them. They are doing the "I'm not speaking to YOU" bit over the loosebox walls...thankfully they are too high for them to do any further damage but they can make nose-to-nose contact.
I won't keep them off the fences with electric tape as it would be horribly unfair to my blind boy, who knows his paddock like the back of his hoof which is how he manages so well. I do think its important for them to have physical contact when they want it, but i have to admit I do not subscribe to the theory that all horses should be turned out with others because that's what they like, as my two would have done awful damage to each other by now, both are big horses and neither one of them knows when to back down!
The mare has no mane at all from her withers to about 7 inches behind her ears, and there her mane is about 4 inches long. I think I will have to shorten it to about 2-3 inches and leave it unplaited. She looks gorgeous from the near side....she looks like she has been in a cat fight from the offside.....he looks like a kid who has been beaten up in the playground......and I am competing at a rather smart competition in 2 weeks and I just know I will be the only person whose horse is not plaited......good job I have a sense of humour!!!!
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