New posters reporting plaits etc

[Tinseltoes]

On doing some research they appear to be made by bigfoot! Now I would panic

Mane Braiding
From Robin Bellamy:

An unusual phenomenon has been noted in relation to the sightings and footprints of Bigfoot type creatures. Please see photo below:

This particular one is in a horse's mane. These intricate braidings appear overnight, and there are often Bigfoot or Sasquatch type footprints nearby. They have been reported by people in the United States, and in Russia. However, we have not heard of anything similar occurring in Canada.

We must add that no creatures were actually seen braiding the horses mane, but we can say quite confidently that the horse did not do this on it's own!

I have found pictures some of which people are saying are man made for marking for theft and others are to promote detangler, make your own minds up.

With this windy weather ponies/horses will get these tangles.My section A has them and if I leave them,they seem to sometimes loosen. I call them RASTERS.
Pics 1,2 and 4 are like she gets. She has one right now,pic 2

 

[Battyoldbint]

yeah well just watch out for the fairys and little people cos my horse gets these in his feathers

 

[LittleBlackMule]

My native filly regularly has plaits exactly like those photos, OMG that must mean Bigfoot is alive and well in Sussex!!

After all, she couldn't possibly be doing it herself rubbing against fenceposts...

 

[henryhorn]

Mystery solved, that pic looks like the ones you get when they get a bramble tangled and it comes out leaving a knot...

 

[mrsdoubtfire]

Hate to say it but if someone is going to steal your horse they will - plaits or no plaits, aside from sleeping (or not)in the field there is not a great deal we can do - sad fact!

What I do want to know though is that why in these financial hard times when ligitimate sellers are struggling to sell horses is horse theft on the increase??? doesn't make sense to me?

 

[Lorraine1962]

Can't believe that one our mares has had her mane plaited...we now have to bring all horses in....grrrr!!!

 

[Capriole]

my friends pony in my field had a plait in her forelock and tail last night, I just assumed that her daughter had been faffing around and was too lazy to take them out again! Going to be sick tonight if it wasnt her and the pony is gone arent I...

(actual plait, rolled and banded, and tail braided and banded, not a fairy tangle though)

 

[*hic*]

Can't believe that one our mares has had her mane plaited...we now have to bring all horses in....grrrr!!!

That should make it nice and easy for the thieves, instead of having to find a plait in the dark they can now just go to the third box on the left.

 

[*hic*]

my friends pony in my field had a plait in her forelock and tail last night, I just assumed that her daughter had been faffing around and was too lazy to take them out again! Going to be sick tonight if it wasnt her and the pony is gone arent I...

(actual plait, rolled and banded, and tail braided and banded, not a fairy tangle though)

Presumably you took the plaits out . . .

I had to ask my loaners to please NOT leave my pony fully plaited in the field, not because I thought thieves had done it, but because I thought it was jolly unfair to leave the poor thing with no fly protection during the hot weather and I can remember only too well what plaits left in several days in my own hair felt like. APparently they thought she looked so much nicer like that that they were going to keep her like it always

 

[OWLIE185]

The fact of the matter is that amongst all the horse thefts reported to horsewatch over many years not one has been reported stolen because their tail has been plaited.

If you are worried about your horse being stolen then get it freezemarked on it's shoulder. Anyone can easily see and read a freezemark rather than a microchip which is invisible and the scanner from one system will not recognise other systems.

If your horse is stolen report it immediately to the police and ask for an incident/crime number. Then report it to Horsewatch and then update your horses record on www.ned-online.org.uk and mark it's record as stolen.