Mane on the wrong side

sarah23

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Silly question. My ponies mane is on the wrong side and i want to get it to lay on the correct side.

Is the only way to get it to lay on the right side just to keep plaiting it or can i use them Lycra hood things. Or what would be the best way to do it and keep it on the correct side.
 
Make sure its pulled on the right side. Dampen it every day - put human hair gel on. Plaitting will help, so will the hoody things! Whoever decided horses manes have to go on that side was a rotter! I'm convinced 85% of horses' manes naturally fall on the other side!!
 
make sure you thoroughly shampoo and rinse twice, then gel and plait over to the side yuo want. will be an on going job for a few weeks til you train it to the correct side! also pull the mane to sit that way. greasy dirty manes will always jump back over but clean gelled trained manes are better, unless of course you have the mane from hell!
 
Our NF has so much mane it refuses to lie on anything other than both sides. However, for shows I wet it thoroughly (takes a lot of water to do this!) and plait it tightly for a day or two beforehand to the 'correct' side, and on the day itself I plaster it down with hair spray and it more or less stays unless it's windy.
 
hog it!! lol!! Teds was constantly half over on correct side and half over wrong side, was a pain so I took the plunge and hogged him...he does look lovely though must admit even though he is a warmblood...he is chunky and has a large neck and great topline so he pulls it off rather well!
 
Do you know, the older I get, the more I think does it really matter? As long as it looks neat and tidy and you can plait it over to the right side when you need to do, then I don't think you have to worry too much. But I'm sure all the above advice will help too!
 
Mine goes on both sides, is always scruffy however much I pull and pamper it, and you know what? I don't care. I do unaffiliated dressage (and win) with his mane like that and the one comment I have never received is "mane should look neater". I think it gives him character....why conform to the neat and tidy brigade!
 
Who decides what is the 'right' side??? My young boys mane lies to the left, but that is how he is made......I can't see why that would be classed as 'wrong' tbh, and as long as it is clean, neat and tidy I won't be trying to pin it down to the other side.....
 
Kelly's mane is always on the "wrong" side!!
However for shows when we need the "right" side we bath her 2 - 3 days before (so the oils can come back to her coat and mane and tail), soak her mane through on that side and plait it and keep it plaited until the night before :)
 
hog it!! lol!! Teds was constantly half over on correct side and half over wrong side, was a pain so I took the plunge and hogged him...he does look lovely though must admit even though he is a warmblood...he is chunky and has a large neck and great topline so he pulls it off rather well!

we did this to a friends 13hh pony! then after a year or so they let it grow back in and with brushing and pulling it now sits the right way.

Tom's mane is like wire wool and goes straight up his neck from withers to poll. doesn't matter what you do to it nothing changes. My sister doesn't even pull it now, just hacks it with a solo comb to keep it short ish. Doesn't matter what it looks like really as he only does a bit of unaff SJ these days.
 
Thanks for the replies.

Hogging is a no go as she is a welsh section A and a very pretty showy type so i would of liked to do some inhand stuff with her hence way i need it on the right side. I never thought about using hair gel.
 
My boy's mane grows beautifully on the wrong side too! In the past I've made efforts to train it to lay the other side, but a shake of the head and it tends to all fly back over!

I've now stopped worrying, and it looks really smart (but just on the wrong side) My horse is a TB so if I was to take him out to anywhere where it would matter I'd plait it.
 
My mare's mane lies on both sides.

Lately I have been bathing and putting in small gyspy plaits and leaving them in for a week. I've done this twice already and her mane is still all on one side.
 
Why should it matter what side the mane is on? I don't give a toss and am fed up of hearing the 'right' or 'wrong' side. If thats the way it goes, then leave it to go that way, no-one tells you off for having it 'wrong'. Pah, its simply not worth worrying about.
 
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