Leaving a horse plaited - one weekend to the next?

[YourValentine]

Well let’s be honest, hunters aren’t exactly guaranteed to be kind to animals.

That is a very judgemental and unfounded statement. You could very easily replace "hunter" with showing / DR / SJing given recent examples of behaviour in the equine industry.

All it is is a sign of a lazy individual who probably shouldn't be allowed to have horses.

 

[Burnerbee]

That is a very judgemental and unfounded statement. You could very easily replace "hunter" with showing / DR / SJing given recent examples of behaviour in the equine industry.

All it is is a sign of a lazy individual who probably shouldn't be allowed to have horses.

You’re right, I could. On this occasion I am targeting my judgement with utter, deliberate, wide eyed conviction, at hunters.

 

[ILuvCowparsely]

AIBU I’ve just seen on social media one prolific poster boasting about leaving their rolled in plaits in from hunting from one weekend to the next and it’s made me feel for the horse?

I have to plait most weekends but it’s never occurred to me to leave them in after. Sometimes I’ve had to plait 2 out of 3 days! I don’t love plaiting the night before but have done in the past and I do sometimes mane train by plaiting over but these are not rolled and are done much looser than plaits for turnout. Is this really much worse?

I’m anthropomorphising but I can’t imagine having my hair in tight braids for that long.

I got one girl to French braid my late mares mane overnight for a show, by the next morning two chunks mane came out so I had to redo it and lost man. i would not do that again, and def not a week
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[ILuvCowparsely]

If I've wanted to train a mane over I have left plaits in a week with no ill effects. But I do them very loosely, not like a show or hunt plait and don't roll them.

Yes I have done that before but then the plaits in that circumstance starts further down and not near root and is a loose plate.

 

[I'm Dun]

Without even going to check I can be certain that this will be "the adventures of mr mo" as the other clueless, prolific social media poster has hogged her horse.

yes thats her, I couldnt remember her name as I don't follow her.

 

[ILuvCowparsely]

Well let’s be honest, hunters aren’t exactly guaranteed to be kind to animals.

I have to agree with your comment partly, I seen a lot of things, we had a beautiful buckskin mare really sweet, and the loaner could not keep her any longer so owner came to get her and next thing we knew she had her shot.

That said there will of course be some people out there who are nice to their horses.

 

[ester]

I used to do this until I was told about a horse who degloved his tail when it caught in something and the band did not give

what band were they using

 

[eggs]

To be honest the person who is doing this does plenty of other stuff that makes me shudder - don’t get me going on her recent post regarding advice from her vet following a worm egg count.

 

[Cloball]

I agree, I think long loose plaits is different. I used to do big fat loose plaits in my native's mane so he didn't end up a burr-blob. They didn't seem to pull and usually lasted a few days before I had to brush and re-plait.

ETA I do the same with my own long hair - I can make a two foot long plait last about three days before I start to look homeless and have to take it out

I do put two long loose plaits in my natives mane as otherwise she gets a tangled dread every time she rolls. The rest is currently a bur blob

I used to get headaches if I tied my hair too tight.

If you can't be bothered to plait every weekend then hogging for the winter would be better surely?

 

[Widgeon]

what band were they using

Yes, where can I get some, mine snap if you breathe on them too hard

Although perhaps that is because I use about two dozen a year so the bag would be....five years old?

 

[Goldenstar]

An elastic one the tail got caught and the very end got knotted up and the horse panicked .
I always assumed that the band would just slip off or break .

 

[ester]

I mean elastic is kind of a given unless you're sewing it in that doesn't narrow it down .
Degloving is some force

 

[Fieldlife]

I mean elastic is kind of a given unless you're sewing it in that doesn't narrow it down .
Degloving is some force

I wonder though if plait got caught higher up the plait loops itself could act as a big knot.

 

[little_critter]

I mean elastic is kind of a given unless you're sewing it in that doesn't narrow it down .
Degloving is some force

Am I understanding that the plait got caught on something and rather than pulling through the plait and the band, the tail de gloved?
That makes sense, it’s not just the elastic band you’re fighting, it’s the friction of all the tail hair plaited together. It would be like expecting a rope to easily unravel.

 

[ihatework]

The lady in question is so very lucky to have such a saint of a horse that puts up with so much of her non-horsemanship. She is in for a very rude awakening when the day comes when she needs another riding horse.

 

[ester]

Am I understanding that the plait got caught on something and rather than pulling through the plait and the band, the tail de gloved?
That makes sense, it’s not just the elastic band you’re fighting, it’s the friction of all the tail hair plaited together. It would be like expecting a rope to easily unravel.

Oh yes totally but that's a bit of a different situ than just the band not breaking under the force required to deglove a tail which is what was said initially.

 

[humblepie]

It does make me wonder how lazy you would have to be to do that as well as unthinking as being uncomfortable for the horse.

 

[scats]

To be honest the person who is doing this does plenty of other stuff that makes me shudder - don’t get me going on her recent post regarding advice from her vet following a worm egg count.

I had a scan of that post and she also didn’t realise we had bot flies in this country.
How old is this woman? Does nobody read good old fashioned horse books anymore? I knew all about bot flies and bot eggs when I was under 10 years old.

 

[humblepie]

I had a scan of that post and she also didn’t realise we had bot flies in this country.
How old is this woman? Does nobody read good old fashioned horse books anymore? I knew all about bot flies and bot eggs when I was under 10 years old.

Used to have a curved bot knife. Very pony club manual of horsemanship

 

[Velcrobum]

I know the poster OP is referring to and she repeatedly states that she hunts the clean boot with bloodhounds.

That being said, having watched videos where she’s screaming and swearing at her horse whilst it backs into a ditch in terror, I agree she’s not kind to the poor sod at all.

Is this a forum member or social media like FB ?

 

[nutjob]

Is this a forum member or social media like FB ?

Doubt that she is a forum member but "antics of mr mo" on fb, Giraffegirl131313 on youtube

 

[Velcrobum]

Doubt that she is a forum member but "antics of mr mo" on fb, Giraffegirl131313 on youtube

Thank you do not follow social media! Being nosy will go and have a look although cautiously .

 

[Widgeon]

I had a scan of that post and she also didn’t realise we had bot flies in this country.
How old is this woman? Does nobody read good old fashioned horse books anymore? I knew all about bot flies and bot eggs when I was under 10 years old.

Ugh - I remember summer mornings spent scraping bot eggs off the riding school ponies' legs before getting them ready for the day. I still have my special little bot egg scraper!! I've never seen them since though, and not on my own horses.

 

[Widgeon]

Used to have a curved bot knife. Very pony club manual of horsemanship

Bot knife club

 

[eggs]

Still got my bot knife too but usually found it easier to pinch them off with my finger nails.

 

[Goldenstar]

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Don’t most hunts expect hogged or plaited after opening meet? Our local ones do!

I just send him out brilliant white grey with his mane clean and tidy.
However I must admit I don’t generally send my horses to opening meets but if I wanted to I would.

 

[Goldenstar]

I had a scan of that post and she also didn’t realise we had bot flies in this country.
How old is this woman? Does nobody read good old fashioned horse books anymore? I knew all about bot flies and bot eggs when I was under 10 years old.

In the interests of fair ness I must say I have not seen a bot egg on a horse for a least twenty five years .

 

[scats]

In the interests of fair ness I must say I have not seen a bot egg on a horse for a least twenty five years .

It’s been about 13 years since I last saw them.
Even so, I knew all about bot flies and eggs from pouring over horse books as a kid. I guess people don’t do that anymore.

 

[PurpleSpots]

Sadly I saw a few of the *******s last summer, so can confirm that some at least are sadly alive and well in the UK still.

Thank goodness warbles are not seen here any more though!

 

[Goldenstar]

It’s been about 13 years since I last saw them.
Even so, I knew all about bot flies and eggs from pouring over horse books as a kid. I guess people don’t do that anymore.

I think the internet has changed how people search out and consume knowledge.
Old books about horses are wonderful and I when I was young books and people where the only way to learn .

However some of the stuff horses endured was it was not always a case of the good old days.