Putting on a tail bandage...

[Grey_Arab]

I may be putting this in the wrong place (probably) but could one of you lovely people help me, I take my BHS stage one tomorrow and am here panicking about which way up the bandage needs to be when you start, I'm just having a complete blank. So does the end of the bandage need to be on top or underneath the roll when you start??
Hope that makes sense.
Thankies in advance!

 

[Grey_Arab]

This may help explain what I mean

so the way up that the unrolled bandages are in the pic or flipped over?

 

[Shilasdair]

The way the white bandage is in the pic.
Shilasdair, BHS Int SM!

 

[teapot]

God I can't remember now, was nearly 4 years since I did my stage 1 - the last time I put on a tail bandage

ETS: like the green one, just checked my notes

 

[Shilasdair]

If, in your exam, you get to the end and it's inside out so the ties won't go, just calmly pull the bandage off, down the tail, roll it up, and do it again.
Tell the BHS examiner that sorry, you had to reroll the bandage first...they'll make allowances.
Good luck
S

 

[Seahorse]

You roll it up so it's inside out then put it on with the bandage on the top.

 

[dill]

Have a look at this video - it shows you exactly how to roll the bandage and how to put it on.

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-apply-a-horse-tail-bandage

 

[Weezy]

I don't do mine like that! I put end under dock and and then up, then wrap a couple of times, fold end down and then roll onwards - it is easier!

 

[hadfos]

Cool,thanx weezy,i will definately try that 1

got to be sooo much easier,specially when thay clamp!!!!unfortunately the bhs dont think logically,lmao!!!thank god i aint got to do that again!!!

 

[hadfos]

Bizzare isnt it how something seems soooo simple but ya need somebody to point it out???lmao

not really blonde and stupid!!!lmao!

 

[pathelschoice]

correct - like the white bandage and dont bandage too tight- and tuck in the ribbon ties for neatness when finished

 

[Cop-Pop]

Hope you don't get a horse like mine for your stage one - they had put so much mane and tail conditioner on the tail that the bandage kept sliding off no matter how tight I did it!!

 

[Equus Leather]

I do mine like Weezy, always bandage with the roll on top. Don't foget to tie the ties on the side of the tail and tuck in to prvent pressure points.

 

[FRESHMAN]

Can I just ask someone to explain to me where this idea of bandaging 3/4 of the way down the boney area comes from? Please, anybody

 

[Seahorse]

Well I start halfway down, go up and then down again to the end of the dock.

 

[Weezy]

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Can I just ask someone to explain to me where this idea of bandaging 3/4 of the way down the boney area comes from? Please, anybody

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Not a clue

I certainly do not go that far down - I only bandage to sort the top of the tail out, or for putting tail up for polo!

 

[Seahorse]

I was told to bandage to the end of the dock, as when travelling this is the bit you need to protect.

 

[FRESHMAN]

Well thank god for that, I know I am probably very old fashioned. I have always been taught (many moons ago) & still insist to this day that a tail bandage should go to the very bottom of the 'tail bone' (as the video calls it) Reason being, if only partially then you can cut off the blood supply to the area. This has always sounded feasible. If you was to bandage an area, say on the leg you would always bandage between one main bone/joint to another. ie: below the knee to fetlock or continue to the coronet band. Never 1/2 way house. Also this would protect the end of the dock also. Please somebody tell me I havent missed out on some new scientific way of thinking.

I am being deathly serious here. I need facts!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Weezy]

No you have missed nothing - I am just a lazy cow

 

[FRESHMAN]

LOL

Weezy I am really concerned that either my memory & mind are failing far too quickly. OR their is an awful lot of bad training going on in this world. Seriously I would sack someone for applying a tail bandage in that manner. (from start of rolling bandage to actual application) Maybe I need to be brought up to speed, but I do feel reasons for applications need to be understood.

 

[Weezy]

Your memory and mind are fine

I only apply tail bandages for my use for playing polo or for flattening a tail for an hour tops prior to hunting, I use a tail guard for travelling if I use anything at all. It is impossible to bandage all the way down for polo, and I was calling myself a lazy cow with reference to my flattening (plus, if you bandage all the way down with horses with big tails you end up with a big puffy bit at the bottom if you aren't careful)

If I apply for someone else (which I did do today funnily enough) it goes allllll the way down - I almost took pics to show how I did it for this thread LOL!

So you see, you can sleep easy - you are 100% technically correct!