People with hairy beasts they prefer de-fuzzed...

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...do you find you spend your entire life doing it?? Or is mine especially hirsute?!

I take his feathers off with clippers and trimmers every couple of weeks. He's Suffolk x so doesn't have nice big cobby feathers, just v thick hair on his legs which makes him look far heavier than he is. His tail is pulled and he would be hogged if my instructor would let me ;) but I realised this morning, I spend half my life keeping on top of this hair attack, and woe betide me if I look the other way for a few days...cue bogbrush tail and a mane that is impossible to plait!!!

Any good shortcuts that still look nice?? I want to ride, not train as a horse hairdresser!! :)
 
Go natural = No time or effort! :D

Sorry, no idea. My pony isn't heavy enough to look right all hogged/pulled/hairless and even if he was, I'm faaar to lazy! :P
 
I have a hairy beast as well. Unless he has a monthly full clip he looks like a bog pony (he is irish though .....). He has feathers which are straggly, a hairy face (Mini TX rather rudely calls them his 'pubes', cat hairs along his belly and chest and a mane and tail so thick you have to hog one and pull the other once a week. He is jet black and in summer gets dusty, his white socks get filthy in winter. I pay our YO to clip him once a month and for 3 weeks he looks great. His mohican then grows back, his vile straggly feathers grow back and his hairy face starts. Yes he is a messy bugger, but I love him!
 
use a solo rake on his tail (not sure if its called a solo rake) but if you just use it on the top of his tail it gives the same effect as pulling and takes less time :D, taz is an ID had lots of feathers when i got him, a stupid long mane and huge tail, and a few weeks later everything was gone lol i love a well trimmed horse :D
 
de fussed lmao ... gosh im glad i have a tb :p takes 2 seconds to trim him up ... *i bet ur jealous of my hairless horse ;) *
 
I have a Dales X Cob and I have to clip his legs and hog him every week to keep him looking smart, lots of work but its worth it. I seem to always have a set of clippers in my hand or a sponge for his stable stains, Cobs Eh!
 
NicoleS_007 said:
de fussed lmao ... gosh im glad i have a tb :p takes 2 seconds to trim him up ... *i bet ur jealous of my hairless horse ;) *
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Swear to God, after tail and mane pulling frenzy which seemed to make no indent whatsoever and left 2 of my fingers raw, I did say to him "next time mate, it's gotta be a TB"!!

Seems there are no shortcuts but I do feel better that so many of you share my pain! I already have the tail rake. Might try clipping down the sides of the tail...I have even tried wearing gloves but his hair is SO tough that it just rips them open lol!!! x
 
Ditto theoryX1 - my cob X has a full clip every 4 weeks or so. He has a heart shape clipped (or I suppose more precisely not clipped!) on his bum which I call his "clipping indicator". When that goes fuzzy - off it all comes again! He is hogged but his tail is glorious and doesn't need pulling.

This winter I discovered - more by accident that design - that pig oil and sulphur helps keep everything untangled and managable when he is due, or over due, for a clip. Especially his legs. I'm sure the sulpur has nothing to do with it - thats for the mud fever - but pig oil or similar may help.

Don't do it just before the farrrier is due though. Slippy legs!
 
I have a Cob X Dales....
I do clip mine just before the farrier so he can then cut of his ergots :)
Pigs oil or johnsons baby oil works great in his tail and keeps it looking clean...
Clip him whenever he needs trimming up - chin, legs, bum hair :) and mane.
Although just stopped clipping his mane as im letting it grow out...by time winter hits his rug will lay his mane for me :)
 
I used to ride a Suffolk cross for a friend, and was always defuzzing him in the show season (showed him side saddle and at local level as a cob). But once cubbing finished, he was left to go scruffy for the winter, to give both of us a break - I'd hog his mane if it really annoyed me.

It's the same with my grey QH mare - through the show season she's trimmed and scrubbed to perfection, but in the winter I let her mane grow and she can be as dirty as she wants - I might get the stains off if I'm going to a clinic or have a lesson and it's not too cold.

It can get obsessive - sometimes you have to let go :)
 
I have to clip my horses legs and hog her off every other week, its such a pain! Im giving her a full clip in the middle of sept as i have a show at the end, and again in oct. Then november, december, jan, she is having 3 months off to get all hairy lol! should luck... interesting :D

No tips for keeping them defuzzed unfortunatly
 
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