Shedding blade - best bit of kit ever!

[BentleyBelly]

I bought a shedding blade on ebay this week, set to work on my very hairy ginger pony this morning and it is amazing! My yard looked like it was carpeted in ginger fluff when I was finished and pony looked half the size. Would highly reccommend, i'd always used a rubber curry comb before and always found the hair kept coming , this really did the job properly. Whats your favourite bit of kit?

 

[Cinnamontoast]

I'm with you there, especially this time of year. Looks like I've clipped when I've finished!

 

[indie999]

I had one of these and lost it somewhere and should get another as I have hairy unrugged and the birds love the hair for their nests! But agree they are good and I think give a good old scratch too!

 

[Sparkly Snowdrop]

I love my shedding blade, I couldn't be without it now!

 

[Starry_eyes]

I too love my shedding blade. But, the other day, I borrowed a friend's Furminator. AMAZING. Really. Gobsmacking amounts of dead hair came out, it was so satisfying!!

 

[sandi_84]

I tried to get one at my local tack shop this week but they had sold out!
Now I'm stuck with using my rubber curry comb and de-hairing it every two seconds till they get more in. Honestly you could weave a carpet out of what's coming out of my boys coat atm!

 

[Enfys]

Bayley thinks so too

 

[charleysummer]

Ahh i love my shedding blade,

why oh why did I fine clip the pony?! comes out in horrid itchy stubs

I am missing out on all the de-hairing fun!

 

[Miss-rose]

I bought a ferminator (dog comb) of eBay last week and used it on Rose yesterday and it's now my fave bit of kit, she too looks half the horse she did an hour b4

 

[Firefly*]

I use shedding blade then furminator - perfect results. They are both awesome. Shedding blade gets the thick of the loose hair off and then the furminator gets the rest

 

[flying solo]

I use a good old hack saw blade! Works wonders on the shettie ;-)

 

[Equinus]

The nicest thing about the shedding blade, and furminator, is that you don't get clouds of fluff billowing towards your fleece and into your mouth. It all keeps nicely contained in wads.

 

[Feathered]

Totally agree! Especially with 2 hairy monsters. It's good on dried mud too.

 

[MrsB]

I've got a shedding blade, but instead of a just a single loop, it's got several other blades inside it, so it takes loooooooooooads out

 

[Equinus]

My original one...about ten years ago, was for a big dog, but it got lost in the depths of the garage. It had different sized teeth on each side which meant you could get rid of most with big teeth then go over with fine teeth. The new one, for horses, has a plain blade for sweat scrape. Not as handy.

 

[Capriole]

equinus, I have a reversible one like your old one, its great.

I would be lost without my shedding blades now, I tried a furminator and thought it was absolute rubbish though, and got a refund.

I tried another sort of shedding blade recently as well, one similar to a metal curry but with concentric circles. Thats ok as well, but the regular shedding blade is better.