Hogging manes but keeping feathers?

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I posted a while ago about Ronnie's thick and wild mane before but i am truely at a loss about how to control it
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He looks like elvis!

I think it's just taken to letting me waste my time trying to get it to choose a side and then when my backs turned sticks to fingers up and flops back to its original state!
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I've tried applying hair gel on one side to make it stay over but it just flops back into a center parting down his neck. I tried to plait it but it's so thick it will take me hours!

Now, do you think plaiting will be worth my while and when it gets longer it will be heavy enough to stay on one side?
Or shall i hog it? AND if so can i keep his feathers for some small local showing, they are growing back well & i'd quite like to keep them...
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Here's the little chubber with evil mane in full glory!

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If you're not that fussed about showing then you'll be fine to hog/keep feathers, it will look neater and be easier.

If you want to do well in showing or aim higher then you need to do one or the other I'm afraid.
 
Have you thought about trying a lycra hood? I've been plaiting my boys mane and although most of it now falls right, there's still some rogue parts and I've been told that a hood would help this
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He doesn't look that heavy, and his mane looks similar to my coloured's mane when it is wild! Are you sure about the feathers though, he would look so hot if you took them off!
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He doesn't look that heavy, and his mane looks similar to my coloured's mane when it is wild! Are you sure about the feathers though, he would look so hot if you took them off!
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ooo i'm not sure i will have the balls to shave them off!
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Thanks though everyone - i think i will give the plaiting a real go and if it fails i will lop everything off!
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I hope it will suit him!
 
Persevere! I reckon he'll look lush with a long, flowing mane and feathers! (not that he's not a handsome boy already cos he is!)
Other posters are right, a lycra hood will help. xx
 
I have hogged and clipped the feathers off my mare in the past and she did look smart, but every so many years I let her grow them back.
It is scarey the first time you take the lot off as you know it's a long time before they are back, my girl as a lovely mane but it sticks up and never seems to grow and sticks up like a zebras at the wither end of her neck, this is why I just lop the lot off in frustration.
 
He's your horse - you can do what you like with his hair!

I keep my Ardennes X's feather as I consider it sacreligious to remove it. He has a mane that grows on both sides with a whorl in the middle of it so I can't keep it tidy. Neither can I hog as he has a lump of proud flesh under his forelock. So I compromise and go for the trojan look. It really suits him - even if a little unconventional. People took the piss at first but now he is trend setter.
 
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Persevere! I reckon he'll look lush with a long, flowing mane and feathers! (not that he's not a handsome boy already cos he is!)
Other posters are right, a lycra hood will help. xx

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Yep i'm on the hunt now for a lycra hood!
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I think he will look lovely too, he's acts like such a baby for some reason i can't imagine him all naked and business man like! Maybe when he's a little older..
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Thanks ladiesss x
 
Either go one way or the other - personal hate for me is either full mane and clipped legs or vice versa.

Seeing as I am devoted to hair, I would put the mane in plaits, rub with megatek and wait. As it gets longer the weight will hold it down.

Farra was hogged when she was two as she was in a terrible state and had lice. Her mane can still be a little wild but it is starting to look very nice. I plaited it down and to be honest, if I put more effort into it, I could have it far nicer, but she is my husband's horse and not shown to date.
 
Ebay is a good place for lycra hoods, I've just got my cob a shires one for £20 including postage
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Tis £29 at my local tack shop. Has a full zip too, much easier than those pull on ones.
 
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