mane falling out, headless snuggy hood :(

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am utterly gutted:(

have been singing the damn things praises as since i got it a couple of months ago my Sec D's wild mane has been tamed.

however despite regular washing, the ruddy thing has made her mane start to drop out and she now has bald bits. I could cry:(

Im loathe to leave her neck uncovered as she is fully clipped but think its the only option!
 
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Dont bother with necks full stop. Even clipped 2/3rds of them is warm and dry, the most important bits being their loins and backs. Their manes give warmth too.

Think how how and irritated you would be if you had to wear a pair of tights over your head 12 hours at at time!
 
TigerTail said:
Dont bother with necks full stop. Even clipped 2/3rds of them is warm and dry, the most important bits being their loins and backs. Their manes give warmth too.

Think how how and irritated you would be if you had to wear a pair of tights over your head 12 hours at at time!
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i know:( my mare was attacked in the field at the end of last summer and had her mane hacked off. Ive been trying everything to get it to lie flat and grow back in and having had problems with fullneck rugs/neck covers previously there was no way I was going to use them. However I thought the snuggyhoods were different, lighter, breathable, blooming pricey too:o:( Rest assured she is out with a bare neck now and will continue to be.
 
It wont lie flat no matter what you do with it til there is enough length there to naturally weigh it down. Seriously thats not something to get obsessed about fixing :)
 
TigerTail said:
Dont bother with necks full stop. Even clipped 2/3rds of them is warm and dry, the most important bits being their loins and backs. Their manes give warmth too.

Think how how and irritated you would be if you had to wear a pair of tights over your head 12 hours at at time!
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When I got to the yard last night the girls had put my full neck rug on one of my horses - the one with the clipped out neck so I could understand why they had done it as it was blimming cold and I appreciated the kind thought. BUT she had clearly been rubbing as it was all twisted round which also pulled the body over to one side. As I was skipping her out, instead of supervising as usual she rubbed and rubbed her neck on the door and when I looked at her she grabbed her other no neck rug on the stable door and pulled it, looking at me all the time she was doing it. I felt under her neck and she did feel very warm so I swapped the rugs over back to her no neck and she started eating her hay again totally unconcerned.

I really think some horses dislike neck covers! The same one of mine never wants to wear one outdoors either unless it is really really windy and raining. I just tell the girls at the yard that if she doesn't want to wear a neck cover she doesn't have to...she's pretty good at telling us. This is a fine, blanket clipped WB too, I dread to think how the unclipped cobs and natives with long manes feel under all their rugs :(
 
Snuggy did silky line mine but made no difference! It was suggested the horses were too warm so i have slightly under rugged this year but still had mane loss. I wash ours every weekend and always spray the mane with shine spray as suggested by Snuggy - makes no difference. I have now switched to a turnout head rather than a hood and full neck rug. I still had mane loss a few years ago with a full neck rug but no where near as bad as with the snuggy.

I did think about leaving the neck naked.......but the thought of grooming a Palomino who's out 24/7 in a muddy field made me shudder! I'll just put up with a bit of mane loss! :D
 
I bought my boy one of these to help to stop his mane from being rubbed out but after trying it on, I decided not to use it as it looked too tight and didn't look very comfortable! Sounds like it didn't do the job anyway!
 
In one of the other posts last week some one said this happens because they get too hot !

What a bummer :-( I'd be gutted if that happened to one of mine

I only ever use hoods the night before a show though
 
With neck covers, wait for the horse to lower its head to graze and then try to stick your hand up the neck cover to the withers. I found that they (whatever make I tried) always went super tight over the mane by the withers. As this was the section that was being rubbed out I decided that it was the pressure that was causing the rubbed mane and promptly never used a neck cover again. ;)
 
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