How clean is your horse?

I

icestationzebra

Well-Known Member
Joined
18 November 2004
Messages
5,378
Location
Leicestershire
Visit site
Following on from the post about grooming...
If the white coat inspectors came round to look at your horse - what dirt would they find?
They would find much scurf on mine I'm afraid - she is groomed every day but still produces more! Her mane is also a bit greasy and her white legs tend to be a bit on the off-white side. She also has a mineral lick which she loves and gets brown sticky goo all up her face!
 
Lol.... no comment... did you see my horses dreadlocks this morning??!! Although saying that he never goes to bed with mud on his coat..... Rugs save alot of labour for me!!
 
My mare receives a thorough groom every time she is ridden but is still scurft. I never touch her tail and mane unless going to a show. Also her 2 back white socks are only white the morning of a show
 
Well after pulling mud out of ears, off mane and from under her rug she gets brushed off, but there is always a bit more scurf she can produce!!!!!!!!!

However on show days she can pass the white glove test with ease - she is scrubbed from mane to tail for every show - and actually scrubs up quite well!!!!!!!
 
My grey horse - NOT clean!!! My chestnut - gleaming!!!

Grey is about to get a bath this afternoon though as he has to be sparkly white for a parade of ex racers at Kelso racecourse tomorrow!! He has his own personal hairdryer and will be dried off with that!!! He likes to rol every day in the deepest mud and even although he is rugged it's just everywhere!!
grin.gif
grin.gif
 
Mine is a bit grubby apart from when she goes to shows. She lives out so don't want to remove too much of the natural grease from her coat. I make sure where the tack goes is cleaned well, then roughly knock the worst of the mud off the other areas. She looks particularly disgusting today, given the current weather
crazy.gif
. But she is happy and healthy and that is the main thing
grin.gif
.
 
My horse isnt too bad really, he gets groomed every night and a thorough groom, with 3 types of brushes about 3 times a week. Also pick out hooves every night.

I brush his mane every night but never brush his tail unless we are competing i dont want it getting thin!!

In fact that sparks a post in lounge methinks!!
grin.gif
 
Ha mine are still out at the moment and so very muddy and wet (hence bog pony post in competition riders!
blush.gif
) especially Blue who seems to have a hobby of paddling in ditches which isn't very good given he has white legs!! They tend to be cleaner when they start coming in over night and obviously try clean them up for shows at the weekend
smile.gif
 
I do the best I can with my grey! He's got a full rug (with neck cover) on in the field to try and stop the worst of the mud getting stuck to him. Im obsessive about grooming and removing stable stains but he is a grey *sigh*

Of course, the upside of this is that he never looks scurfy !
smile.gif
His coat is lovely as well. He isnt clipped and I doubt he will be because he hates clippers so much and doesnt grow much coat anyway. He gets hot wragged most days with hot water, savlon and tea tree and it makes for beautiful coats.

His stomach drives me crazy though! I cant ever keep it white
frown.gif
 
icestationzebra and katb - do you keep your horses at the same yard? which one is it?

Pug is fairly clean but they would find stable stains on his legs because they are a bit of dirty white colour at the moment no matter how many times I brush them. They need washing really. x
 
Mine were all very scurfy a couple of weeks ago as they were all changing their coats. Now that their winter coats are in they are all looking gleaming again. We don't really have mud here so dirty legs is not really a problem.

All of mine are rugged now and they are all fairly clean animals at the best of times, so not a whole load of grooming has to be done at the moment. Tails and manes are always groomed as I do not like tassles and dreadlocks! All of my horses have long manes so this can take me a fair while every day to get round to all of them.

All my horses live out 24/7 but as I say they are all pretty clean guys.
 
They would be covered - mine are unclipped, living out still and unrugged - I groom them twice a week and the next day have about 1" coating all over of thick Essex clay.

At least Chancer's mane and tail are bagged so I don't have 2' long mane dreadlocks.

Later they will be relatively clean as they will be rugged and partially clipped.

Legs are normally very dirty looking - full feather and are covered in oil and I don't wash out until the spring.
 
Oh god, if those two ladies from "How Clean is your House" came round to do a horse inspection they would have a field day!
shocked.gif


My palominos and cremello are absolutely disgustingly filthy. Even the bays and chestnuts are filthy. There's not a white sock in the yard and as for tails.....
blush.gif


We won't mention the dreadlocks either
blush.gif
 
Mare and big lad are ace, they tip toe around the mud, coloured goes and seeks mud out, his life is incomplete without it, so he is just one big muddy mess. What makes the fact worse is that he LOVES to rub his head in it, but he was beaten as a young 'un and will NOT allow people around his ears...so he looks a tramp.
 
Ha, mine are filthy! 2 of the ponies are scruffy as hell (like they should be at this time of year!) and seem to seek out bushes so they can walk about with twigs trailing in their tails and manes.....

My TB is the cleanest, although at the moment he's on holiday so he's all fluffy (he doesnt get a winter coat, he just grows "fuzz"!), manes getting long and I am trying SO hard not to groom him (he's rugged up, living out but he's been clean all season for competing so he's getting his dirty time!). I cannot wait to get the clippers on him when he's brought back into work in a month or two......

My other two are pretty grubby, but only on the bits exposed from their combo rugs! The grey comes in with a lovely clean body but BLACK head and legs, looks so stupid! The other dude is just plain filthy and manages to get mud down his neck under the neck cove somehow.

All have molasses lick dried hard on their noses - the lick is banned a week before anybody is going competing so I can get it off by then.
 
PF is pretty clean.. or at least doesn't show dirt up too much. Antifaz is muckier, but he's not too bad either. I mostly only have to worry about her rolling as soon as I've given her a bath, otherwise it's a quick flick over with a brush and we're ready to go.
It does help that we seldom see any mud here!
 
Mine are happy and coated in mud at the mo.They get a quick dandying before they go to bed and thats that. Tails are no prob as I cut them to hock level when the flies disappear. Horses = dust in the summer and mud in the winter, its a no win situation. Mairi
frown.gif
 
Well we were planning to show Bobby in the Ridden Veteran class at Keysoe tomorrow until we got a complete bog monster out of the field this morning. Took one look at his mane & knew it would be a bath job to get it clean today & as he lives out it would be disgusting again by morning. I suppose the mild weather had lulled us into a false sense of security. Funnily enough all the other neds in the field were really clean. Perhaps Bob thought a face pack would make him more beautiful.
 
One is completely disgusting (grey and also needing clipped and loving to roll) - need I say more. Other two have toe odd roll but are bay and seem to choose less muddy bits so not too bad and I wash their white socks if going anywhere.

The downside of nylon linings on rugs is that their coats get a bit of a grey 'scum' on the surface, need the hot water and savlon wash to get rid, but will prob be clipped this week so that problem will be solved.

Fiona
 
Gov is soft and shiny at the minute...I blame the barley.

His neck, belly and legs are a bit fluffy and theres probably a few patches of dried mud...but not scurfy...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top