Photos of your dirty greys/coloureds?

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I know this is slightly opposite to the photos of clean shiney photos we see on this forum but I recently visited the blue cross and one of the ponies there I liked is the complete opposite to anything I would normally go for- small, hairy & coloured with more white than colour & a pink nose. I have a chestnut gelding with flaxen mane/tail & white/flaxen socks that gets cleaned/washed every few weeks & I'm wondering if I could cope with the upkeep of something with many many more times light bits or just having a dirty horse.
So just how bad is it having a permanently dirty horse, photos please? :D
 
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At her worst! Pain in the butt but I tend to clean where I need to in order to apply tack and crack on ;-)

We have a livery on the yard who thinks I should be shot for not bathing her daily but I'm over it.
 
baileybones - I could see it once I'd replied but when I looked at the thread initially there was no pic, odd! Mud monster! I used to work on a yard where all horses had to be immaculate, one poor little grey pony had endless skin problems where he was washed daily, even in winter, that is too extreme imho!
hippona - I think I would actually cry if anything I owned ever came in looking like that! How does he look normally when not bathed in mud or freshly washed out of interest? And just how long did it take you to get him clean after that?

I'm very much of the school of thought, it's better to scrub where the tack goes & ride than make the horse immaculate and not ride but I am a bit OCD with cleanliness- and very fortunate that current horse is also very clean, he'd be mortified at getting in that sort of state, I have once bought him in filthy in 9 years and he looked so guilty I had to laugh!
 
No pics of him dirty I'm afraid, but I've got a chestnut/white who is prob about 65% white with a white head (except for ears!)...

When I was buying, having had a piebald and a grey with white tail, I didn't want anything white ever again! But coblet was the one...so I just take out shares in stain remover :rolleyes:

If you are someone that has to have their horse pristine at all times, a fluffy coloured may not be for you - or you'll spend your whole life washing, and then looking after his skin after you end up continually washing it...and they don't always dry that fast either!

In the winter, I just spray all bits that stick out of a combo with pig oil once a week and mud etc just drops off overnight in the stable (and haven't had mud fever since I started this and stopped washing mud off). Pig oil also helps a bit with lifting stable stains, and stopping them setting too badly.

Anything vile, or under tack, get sprayed with stain remover then sponged. Especially when the weather is better, it's much easier to keep on top of it otherwise stains set.

I just accept that in winter the back end and legs will be beige, that he always has a poo pillow when we have a show, and when I get fed up, look at the beautiful piccies from show days of the glowing white locks and feathers :D (and try very hard not to think about the 2 baths and half bottle of touch up stain spray it took to get there :rolleyes:)
 
I hope this works as I'm not very good with this.
If it does work, I love my boys head collar and rug lines lol
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chaps89 said:
hippona - I think I would actually cry if anything I owned ever came in looking like that! How does he look normally when not bathed in mud or freshly washed out of interest? And just how long did it take you to get him clean after that?
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I wasn't best impressed either:rolleyes:
He's usually more like this


...theres some of him on the 'tell me about ARABs thread too looking all clean and lovely.

TBH.....I just let him dry and chipped it off, he usually comes up pretty clean without too much effort thank god:)
 
Merlin's preferred colour: :mad:

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And one of the very rare occasions he isn't looking like a grubby little oik:

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Do palominos count?...

In winter, because it's the only bit not covered by a rug it's important to really work that mud into as much of your face as possible :rolleyes:
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Yesterday after a little shower and a roll...
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Today after a bath...
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Full neck rugs are your friend, plus I have one of those balaclava hood things on my must have list for this winter!
There is a sense of achievement when you get a light coloured horse looking posh, that you just don't get with a bay! :)
 
I would love to join this thread but the people who loaned me the blue and white cob the other month delivered him snowy white and if they saw his happy mug looking out from all that mud they would be shocked. Bathed him , rained, rolled ... simples:D
 
After a couple of weeks being in, mine may have gone a bit mad when he went out:
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More normally like this, grubby but not awful:
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Can look like this when effort is made:
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I had a coloured cob who was so dirty so when I was looking for my next horses I promise myself no colours or greys!!! What did I end up with................a grey!! But she is such an amazing horse I just learn to see pass the stable stains and dirt!! I would up load some photos but font know how to if anyone can help? On I phone
 
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