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Use a metal curry comb with a body brush?

Just curious, as havent seen people using them much. I've one, and with every stroke of body brush it's cleaned on curry comb (circular motion) - do any pf you do this? :)

Ps. Any recommendations for a body brush? I need new one!
 
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that is how we were taught to groom when i was a girl. Must admit I don't have one any more though - maybe I did it wrong, but found that it created dust which then showed further along the pony?!
 
I do (when I can be bothered to do more than waving a flick brush in the horse's General direction), and really like the Feeling brush. Got mine from Horse Health.
 
I do :) nothing else gets the grease out of the brush properly. I like horsehair body brushes too, am rather old-fangled in that regard!

I think mine is this one http://www.horsehealth.co.uk/grooming/brushes/body-brushes/croc-raised-edge-brush

it has a raised edge of longer bristles which helps suck the dust out better. Mine's got bling on the handle though.. not intentional, it's just the way it came :lol:
 
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Haven't used a metal curry comb for years! Then again my horse will only let me brush him with a rubber mitten so I doubt it'll work on that!
 
I don't posses a metal curry comb any more and against everything that I was taught I use a plastic curry comb directly on all of my horses - the harder I press on the more they enjoy it!
 
I use metal curry combs, though the handles keep dropping off! I use the plastic one directly on the horse for thick dried mud.
 
I do but only when I groom "properly" which is probably once a month! The rest of the time he gets a quick flick over with whatever is to hand.

That said, he's been moulting virtually all year this year so every/any brush is matted with hair after two strokes - they get cleaned on the wall, fence, my shedding blade or whatever is to hand at the time.
 
I do, at weekends when they get a full groom, just a quick brush during the week as they are out 24/7 and I haven't got the time due to work and all the other stuff that keeps us away from our equine friends :(

I use the ones with the strap across the back rather than the ones with the wooden handle. I find them so much easier and I don't curry comb my arm quite so much either! It's quite satisfying to see a little pile of dust on the floor when I've finished, makes you realise just how dirty they can get.

Like a few people on here I have resorted to the plastic ones directly applied to stubborn mud, though tbh I think the rubbers ones are pretty good for that too. I have a really super stiff dandy brush (think in might be called a mud brush) as well, bit that's pretty useless and they don't like it.
 
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only_me said:
Use a metal curry comb with a body brush?

Just curious, as havent seen people using them much. I've one, and with every stroke of body brush it's cleaned on curry comb (circular motion) - do any pf you do this? :)

Ps. Any recommendations for a body brush? I need new one!
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Hardly ever as I rarely groom mine - just a quick flick if I am riding.
 
Before a show when he's properly groomed (if they have dust and don't get a bath- I can make anything I try to clean look dirtier) but not for every day to be honest! I was taught to but ;)
 
only_me said:
Use a metal curry comb with a body brush?

Just curious, as havent seen people using them much. I've one, and with every stroke of body brush it's cleaned on curry comb (circular motion) - do any pf you do this? :)

Ps. Any recommendations for a body brush? I need new one!
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Yes, always :) (when I use one in winter or high summer. Never at this time of the year unless rugged tho, as I dont like to remove the grease from the coat).
Otherwise is a good 30 min session after a good dandy brushing over :)

Best body brush is a soft leather backed one for me, like the Equerry ones, looked after they do last :)
 
I use body & plastic for my everyday flick over. If they are really muddy or the spring molt I use shock horror the metal comb that is lots of rings. My girls love it used hard on their lardy arse's.
Have but never use a dandy brush they hate it.
 
I'm old so I do. and I finish off with a linen stable rubber too

My gals love being groomed so we spend some time brushing every day as we all enjoy it. Also helps keep rugs and numnahs cleaner as well is leaving the ponies less itchy.

Natural bristle brushes are best, I have the 'equerry' leather-backed jobbies - more pricey than some but last for years.
 
I do. It was what I was taught in the Pony Club when I was younger and have done it ever since. I don't think plastic curry combs or using a stables door or wall(!) have quite the same effect of getting loose hairs/dirt/grease out.
 
I have a set that is 25 years old! Sadly, I can only use it for about 2 weeks a year. My pony is way too hairy most of the year to make a body brush a useful tool. I use a magic brush and/or slicker brush most seasons to get the mud off the super thick coat.
 
Glad to see some people do! I don't use one for every time I use the brush but will do it before competition or lesson :)

But horse is odd, he normally lives out (in at present) but doesn't like a dandy brush & will move away if I try to use one! I have a stiffer body brush and soft rubber curry comb that I use instead to remove mud.
 
I have hated them since I was first shown one. I had to use them years ago when I was a groom but never bought one for myself. I do not think metal toothed implements are appropriate around horses or on natural bristles brushes. And I am old too! My leather-backed natural bristles body brush has still got all its bristles and is at least 25 years old.
 
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