New horse with white legs

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nedzy

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Hi,

My new horse has arrived, but he is the first one I have owned with white legs, and as he is black, it makes them look worse when they are grubby! What is the best way to keep them 'every day presentably clean' as I guess keeping them brilliant white is not going to be possible?
I tried sponging stable stains off this morning, now he has greeny brown legs!
 
You'll learn to love them - stains and all
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Congrats on his arrival! I think if you're not going to give yourself a nervous breakdown invest in some turnout boots to keep them as clean as possible.

There are loads of 'whitening' products but equally loads of cheap shampoos that do just the same job.
 
Try not to go overboard with the cleaning, you can cause some nasty skin problems by washing legs everyday with harsh shampoos.

A nice dry field is the best thing, and count youself lucky its just his legs!
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agree with slinky, I do nowt with my 2 unless we are going somewhere posh. The worst thing for them is my instructors arena which turns them black!
 
accept that they won't be spotless all the time.

our boys both have socks and Tom is especially grubby. (he even wees in the holes in the field and turns them into mud if it isn't muddy enough for him!
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When I do have to wash socks I use any old shampoo on them, and if an event is in the offing then cowboy magic whitening shampoo as a second wash) then once dry I use Alvadazzle on their legs to help keep the muck from sticking to the coat.
 
I'm another one that just leaves socks unless we are going somewhere.

In fact I have almost scrubbing my mares socks when we go out - my instructors school turns them red, and one of the places we have been to doing dressage turns them black - so they look grubby again within seconds..

That is of course if you can get to the lesson / competition with them still clean...
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Just enjoy the grubbiness!!
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I do actually KNOW the answer to this. You move somewhere with minimal rainfall, and dry snow, NOT slush or mud, in winter. I NEVER wash my horses legs and they are always clean except for a week or so in the Spring when it gets a little bit muddy.

If I kept my horses where I used to in Wales (and I had 2 greys then) they were up to their knees in mud, awful, mine rarely went out, both suffered from mud fever, it just wasn't worth it.

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