plaiting to "improve" conformation

[hannah87]

can anyone give me the general rules on this ie for a long weak neck u shud do big plaits/few plaits/a million plaits etc as im crap at this sort of thing!thanks

 

[WishfulThinker]

Less plaits will shorten the neck and plaiting so that they sit up like not flat down will give more width for the neck. and where the neck looks weaker you can make the plaits 'puffier'. Well thats what i;ve been told - I don't know if that makes sense tho! lol. I don't explain stuff very well some times

 

[RunToEarth]

Mke sure you have an odd number of them too

 

[Lvrees]

Plait so that the ones by their ears are flats then build them up so it creates an arc... do this by plaiting upwards for ones you want to stand higher and close to the neck for the flat ones. I think plaiting looks better with thread, you can really create a good shape then. And smaller amount of plaits will give the impression the neck is shorter.

And yeh make sure you have an odd number like RosiiePudding said... I normally put in 13... it seems to be my lucky number!!