Keeping coloured clean before a show

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looking for ideas to keep a coloured horse clean? He almost needs a full bath everyday as filthy. If leave the stable stains they are staining the coat which won't come out. Looking at the premier equine multi buster stable sheets.
Has anybody got one of these? How do you rate them? I am looking for something more breathable than a turnout but that will help keep a very dirty coloured pony clean before shows. Would this work?

http://www.premierequine.co.uk/Mobil...et-c2x21443463
 
Get used to waking up early and having to clean the horse again before taking it to a show. I own a grey so I feel your pain. :D Oh also buy lots of baby wipes. I havent found rugs to be helpful, but he likes to remove them.
 
rachk89 said:
Get used to waking up early and having to clean the horse again before taking it to a show. I own a grey so I feel your pain. :D Oh also buy lots of baby wipes. I havent found rugs to be helpful, but he likes to remove them.
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Afraid that's my method too. I leave him most of the time but he gets well groomed every day, and the occasional sponge off when he's off to a party, then a full on bath the day before a show and again in the morning. I also have lots of stain removers !

I would use a snuggy hood but it's too hot in the summer to do that.

Sorry not much help either !
 
rachk89 said:
Get used to waking up early and having to clean the horse again before taking it to a show. I own a grey so I feel your pain. :D Oh also buy lots of baby wipes. I havent found rugs to be helpful, but he likes to remove them.
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Thanks for all your replies. It is not the fact that have to get up early as I am up early with work anyway. I am quite happy to bath ghe morming before a show but it is the fact that if i don't bath him everyday to get rid of the massive stains then they leave stains that are marking his coat. I don't think it is good for them to be bathed everyday so was looking for ideas for light rugs to use in the stable to help keep him clean.
 
Honestly I'd just accept it's going to happen. I don't like putting a rug on unless they actually need it, better to just let the skin breathe. He's never going to be clean all of the time unless you follow him round with a sponge. I tried to keep my horse clean and gave up. He is a messy boy and likes to get covered in dirt so I now just accept he will always look more like a palomino than a grey. The stains do come out easily even if you leave them so dont worry about that. I've left mine for several months between washes and the stains came out no problem.
 
Oh how I feel your pain. Current horse is grey but still dark, so not too bad. Last horse was a mostly white coloured and absolutely filthy. I am an expert at getting horses white again! Sadly I haven't found rugs to be that much use with an absolute monster, as they just lie in their poo/wee and then it all soaks through and you end up with a disgusting stained rug as well as a stained horse.

This was my routine: every day wash off most the biggest/worst stains with plain water, fresh stains tend to come off relatively easily with plain water and elbow grease and you wont strip the coat of it's natural oils, also give an all over proper groom with regular brushes; about once a week wash tail and any stained patches with cheaper blue shampoo; night before a show wash all over with cheap blue shampoo (otherwise the bits you wash will be whiter than the rest), spray entire coat and tail with coat spray to stop dirt sticking as much (you can spray the mane too but don't if you need to plait it), if horse is stabled then bandage legs (with chalk paste underneath if stained) and then put on a lycra hood/bodysuit and a turnout rug, if being turned out overnight then put on a sweet itch fly rug that covers neck and belly; morning of a show wash any bits that have got dirty again with normal shampoo or fairy liquid, then use a good blue shampoo (supreme products is my favourite), leave to soak in for 5-10mins before rinsing off, then if you're really going for it use a blue rinse all over in final washing off water

That sounds like an awful lot of work, but once you get into it it doesn't take too much extra time, it's just the extra bath before shows and committing time to wash them every week that can be annoying. I can't say I washed her every week all the time, if I knew I wasn't going out for a while sometimes I'd leave it and just bath her properly an extra time in the week before a show. The key is rinsing the stains off as soon as possible after they get them! Also any dirty horse I'd want to be turned out as much as possible, unless you're on that bright orange soil, mud is an awful lot easier to get off and doesn't stain!
 
The amigo aussie allrounder is a good summer everyday rug. Stops the worst of the stains sitting on the coat for too long. I use it with my disgusting grey on badly absorbent straw, it's made a huge difference. I now only remove the stains once a week with no problems. I usually time it so he has a day without a rug on before hand as he's quite itchy I think it is nice for them to have a good roll outside, and as IKMV says mud is much easier to brush off!
 
madamebonnie said:
The amigo aussie allrounder is a good summer everyday rug. Stops the worst of the stains sitting on the coat for too long. I use it with my disgusting grey on badly absorbent straw, it's made a huge difference. I now only remove the stains once a week with no problems. I usually time it so he has a day without a rug on before hand as he's quite itchy I think it is nice for them to have a good roll outside, and as IKMV says mud is much easier to brush off!
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Thanks for that will have a look at those 👍🏻
 
I don't suppose coat shine stops the stains sticking does it?

I've just bought a snuggy hoods fleece rug and hood but they're more for the night before a show...

Fiona
 
Fiona said:
I don't suppose coat shine stops the stains sticking does it?

I've just bought a snuggy hoods fleece rug and hood but they're more for the night before a show...

Fiona
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It does actually! Not completely, but it helps, I've always found that stains come out more easily on a coat-shined coat!
 
I have a coloured and use a Kool Sheet - I can't remember the manufacturer but it is breathable, has a degree of water repelling ability and keeps him clean! St least the bits it covers. I leave him neckless as much as possible as his mane gets rubbed away, but I have a snuggy hood for when we are going out early next day!
 
Sorry if im repeating anything already said !

I own a grey and the only thing you can do is keep bed as clean as possible muck out late at night around 10-11pm

next get a good quality stain remover for the next morning and scrub stains

tie tail in a plait and get up early !!
 
A lightweight full neck turnout rug.
Bandages with old.fashioned gamgees (so) that are angled to go go over the hocks and when all that fails...boots do a spray on white hair dye...costs a few quid and just brushes off
 
Thanks for all them tips. Went for the full neck lightweight turnout before his comp at the weekend which worked well. Only had stains on legs to deal with. He won't wear boots or bandages so nothing can do to stop this x
 
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