Horse food smelling, Sausage Fingers!!!

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Is it just me or do horsey people have the worst hands known to man!!
1. Rough and chapped with terrible hard skin
2. dirt down short unattractive nails!
3. distinct smell of feed/wee/general horse
4. SAUSAGE FINGERS?????

I have quite chunky and totally un lady-like hands that I got picked on for at school!! Can you really get 'muscley fingers'!!!
lol I laugh now but I spent my teenage years with long sleeves or deep pockets to hide rough and chubby sausage fingers!!

Anyone else feeling my pain! heehee!! any tips on how to resolve my problem?
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Got to admit, my hands aren't as dry and capped as I expected, but not sure if that's because I was my hands with moisturing handwash as soon as I get home or I'm just lucky lol. Think this also helps ward off the 'hands smelling like horse' problem, though sometimes nothing gets it off. The finger nail thing is annoying, though I bite my nails so not as bad but god only knows what they'd be like if they were long!!
 
LMAO! I don't have sausage fingers but do suffer from the other problems
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I bought some cotton gloves recently to wear overnight which have really helped - I slather on a load of good moisturiser, pop the gloves on and hey presto, much nicer hands in the morning
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lol!! glad its not just me then! was starting to think I had made a totally wally of myself and my chubby hands! My boss even commented on them the other day (being non horsey) "No bloke likes a bird with big hands" to coin his phrase!!! How insensitive!
 
I know what you mean, apart from the sausage fingers!!
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I tend to soak my hands in warm water and scrub them with a nail brush every night. I then use Garnier Hydralock dry skin cream on my hands and wear a pair of mittens or gloves to bed to help it work.

The nails are stubby though, and I can't wear nail varnish...

Since I've moved to my own place and my girls are out 24/7 I don't smell of wee anymore. It was the mats and straw at the old place that stank - I used to have to hide my hair as that's what picks up odours most.
 
My hands are buggered my guys are on full turnout in all weathers and I also work in caring and a training midwife so im always washing them and using alcohol gel and using latex gloves....I should have a share in Nivea hand cream
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LOL!!!
iv not got long fingers but wouldnt call them sausage fingers! & to make you jealous i have rather long nails! they are super strong & it feels really odd it they are short, but it hurts like hell when i bend one back!
i do however suffer from smelly, dirt ingrained, rough hands!
 
I think you must be able to get muscley fingers, since I started doing more riding a few years ago loads of my rings are now too small, even though they had fitted for years....

My hands aren't too bad as we don't have our own at the moment, but I have seen some shockers. Big strong manly hands on tiny women....... dead odd, though our instructor despite working with horses and having five of her own always has immaculate hands with rings, nail extensions and nail art!
 
I have lovely long nails and have just given myself a french manicure (my sister then said to me; "give it till after you have mucked out...")

I HATE having "horsey hands" during the day so I am in the habit of washing them in soap, fairly liquid and then cheap shampoo (nice smell and way cheaper than smelly soap), then then use an antibacterial hand gel and then hand moisturiser. Because of this crazy hand routine that takes nearly as long as blooming mucking out, my hands are not chapped and sore...

But I do have square man hands... so I can't win really. My fingers are short and wide too
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And althoug my hands are ablt 2/3 of the length of my OH's, they are equally as wide!
 
I find that those rubber/ fabric gardening gloves ( they make ladies sizes now) from hardware shops work wonders, that and the Norweigen Formula hand cream at night. My hands haven't looked this good in 20 years. You can even take ice out of the water trough if your careful with them - fantastic . I use mine for everything, even grooming now.
Its so nice to have clean finger nails.
They are about £3.70 a pair - worth every penny.
 
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