Laying Mane Tips

[Tifferss]

Growing my beautiful girls mane, but its amazingly unruly. it almost grows forward towards her ears.

What is the bast way to get it laid lovely and neat ??? Ive tried wet plaits for a week (redone every night) but it never stays????

 

[Honey08]

I find a rambo sweet itch hoody helps mine have lovely flat manes in summer!

Dampen it and add a little hair gel each time you groom.

Damp plaits in your mane, as you have done, but fold them under once before banding them for extra effect.

 

[Tifferss]

thank you! doesnt the gel irritate ?

 

[Tifferss]

bump

 

[Dexydoodle]

I'll watch this with interest as my mare has the biggest fattest mane ever and it will insist in lying on both sides. We're doing our first ever show sun (only a walk and trot!) and desperate to get some sort of taming in place before then!

 

[carthorse]

I use a snuggy hood

 

[Honey08]

No the gel won't irritate - don't put loads, just a bit to keep it down.

If the mane is longer and on both sides, wash it over, then do a running plait to keep it in. We had a Connie on loan that had a double mane, and a thinning comb took most of it away painlessly before I pulled the bit that was left.

 

[ghostie]

I know someone that blow dries her horse's mane with a round brush to get it lying flat

 

[Lotty]

My mare's mane was half on one side, half on the other I put loose plaits in her mane for 3 months and now it's all on one side. It's been ages since I plaited it so it does work.

 

[winchester]

My traditional cob has a very wild mane - i tried the damping, plaits, bunches all sorts.

Finally i bathed left to dry put hair gel on the roots and then put a snuggy hood on him!

It was all over the right side for the show the next morning and stayed over for a good month.

Honest.... now we are back to being wild but he is living out so it can do as it likes!

 

[SaffronWelshDragon]

I have to say, as a pleasant side effect to the girls wearing their necky fly rugs, they're doing a great job at training their manes over

 

[Littlelegs]

Dampen it & plait but start the plait an inch down if you can, two inches if possible & slightly loose so when you take them out it doesn't spring up again, & you don't damage the hair. I leave in 48hrs then leave out for at least a few hours & carry on doing that until its trained. And always plait after washing. And then in future when it looks like it might need plaits for a day or two.

 

[Tifferss]

thank you peeps!!

 

[Patterdale]

Plus if it's v thick and standing up, you won't be able to lay it until it's a bit thinner, so I'd pull some of the weight out of it!

I'm trying to train my sec d's mane over at the moment, I don't redo the plaits every night as I think it doesn't work as well. He's had his in nearly a week n I'm going to take them out for a few days this week then back in again. It's so annoying though when they've been in for ages and then when you take them out it's just straight back onto the wrong side!