How Clean Is Your Horse? Photographic Evidence

[Weezy]

lec I have been toying with that idea - so long as it didnt get wet it *shouldnt* cause much of a prob

I thought maybe the change of scene would allow me to try with the rug thing again but J has tried him in 3 different locations and he blind gallops and I deffo dont want an accident on my conscious!

Someone needs to develop a babygrow that is waxed!

 

[TrecPeter]

Ho ho - he does looked pleased with himself!

It's a sure sign of sign of a happy horse !
Never mind - it scrapes off easily once its dried

 

[Bossanova]

HAHA!!!
Did warn you, what a little devil

Doesnt he look cute though? What a happy, smiley pony he is

 

[Rambo]

LOL! I knew there was a reason I don't have greys

 

[Sooty]

Ah welcome to my world!

We had a grey who was always either muddy or poohey, now we have two chestnuts - one of whom doesn't like being wet or muddy, the other cannot be wet and muddy enough! Get which one I get to groom? I like it best when the mud is so wet that all I can do is put him in his stable until it dries off. Like some time the next day...

Seriously, we are on clay too, and it dries in great big clumps in his mane and tail and if you try and brush dried mud off it just covers everyone and everything in grey dust. On mild days he gets hosed down, on not so mild days he gets put away after the worst is off. As they both live out without a rug they have fairly long coats, which doesn't help. Mud on a horse in winter is a sign that the horse is lucky enough to have all year turnout!

 

[Sooty]

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This is my horse on one of her clean days....

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You win!!

A great example of what feather are really for - I bet her legs are clean and dry under there...

 

[Weezy]

Thought you might want to see what he did this morning as SOON as I turned him out - still, he is warm!!!!!!!!

 

[Sooty]

LOL - bless him! I am sure they do it on purpose... Sometimes all you can see of Beano's head is his eye, the rest including the headcollar is just a mass of dried grey mud!

 

[Gingernags]

Well I'm lucky with Asti, though she grinds mud into her head and neck, and a bit on her legs, the rug saves us, and she's a ginge so it doesn't look too bad...

But seeing this, I almost feel sorry for my sister...

Hmmm... is this mud I see before me? Better not waste it...

Look, I'll come and show you how clean I am...

TA-DA!!!!! Well you did say you expected a bay filly didn't you? I'm doing my best!!!

Isn't she lovely????

 

[Seahorse]

he he Axel came in looking much the same yesterday so I only brushed off his neck and where the saddle goes, I left the rest of him muddy! He rolled straight away again as soon as he went out, but when it rained last night it washed him clean

I have now rugged him up

 

[Sooty]

See that's the trouble - it's just too damn mild here to rug! Plus, if we do rug then they won't grow their proper woolly coats. They are very late coming through as it is...

 

[Seahorse]

It is only a lightweight rug, I too was hoping to leave him til he was clipped and then rug him properly, but the mud was just too much! Also it hasn't stopped raining and he's out 24/7

 

[miniemy]

I thought I bought a coloured...oh how wrong was I LOL. Bad move on my part. Let hope by the time he is 4 he has grown out of the rolling phase.

 

[Parkranger]

OMG Weezy - what a little terror........!

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