Shedding Season (Photos)

[kit279]

I had my grey TB for about 9 months and when I got him he was a bit underweight so I fed him some oil to try and get some weight on him before winter. Unfortunately he didn't really put on weight but he did grow the most incredibly thick luxurious fur coat I've ever seen. Ominously when I bought him, he only came with only bit of tack - a shedding comb. And now I begin to understand why...! The whole yard and paddock looks like a snowstorm hit it! What can I do with him? Should I clip him or is it too late?! At the moment I'm grooming him twice a day for about an hour each time and my arms hurt and he's still full-on shedding! Advice please!

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[Patches]

That's nothing, perfectly normal. Try owning a hairy yak cob or a native!

My horse would think she was in heaven if she had a feed tub that big and that full.

 

[Damnation]

My lil mare is the same. TB too. I asked if I could get her clipped but someone said it can interfere with their summer coat? Correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[kit279]

Alas, most of that feed gets thrown around and played with instead of eaten... Maybe I should take lessons since he stays so slim - note to self, don't eat the food, kick it around the floor instead...

 

[Happytohack]

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That's nothing, perfectly normal. Try owning a hairy yak cob or a native!

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Or an Icelandic

That TB's coat is nothing

 

[Shilasdair]

You should be making jumpers out of the hair (did you see the couple on the news with dog hair jumpers, gross)?
Clipping now is a bad idea, as you'll take the ends of the summer coat so it'll look rough all summer...if it makes you feel better, once I've groomed my three in the field I come home looking as hairy as Bigfoot.
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[muddy_grey]

I also had a very hairy grey! She was a part-bred polar bear. I think greys are worse because the white hair shows up more. I sold mine over a year ago and still find white hairs about! Not much you can do really. If you hose the yard down it is easier to sweep or keep a bucket with a bit of water next to you while groonming and try and get as much hair as poss in the bucket (the water should stop it then blowing out). Other than that find a corner no one can see and groom there

 

[JessPickle]

that us perfectly normal, there is a pony at my yard nicknamed fluffy, in on e brush you would get that amount of hair in the photo out of him!

 

[pottamus]

You should come and spend a day with my black hairy Welshie beast...you will need no clothes as by the time you have groomed him and ridden in a slightly face on breeze...you will have a nice black coat of hair on you for warmth!

 

[Cop-Pop]

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You should be making jumpers out of the hair (did you see the couple on the news with dog hair jumpers, gross)?
Clipping now is a bad idea, as you'll take the ends of the summer coat so it'll look rough all summer...if it makes you feel better, once I've groomed my three in the field I come home looking as hairy as Bigfoot.
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Are you saying you weren't hairy before you went out to groom them

My little Section A has just started shedding - as she was unrugged and turned out most of the winter I think she has enough hair to stuff a mattress....

 

[FigJam]

I sympathise with my fellow native owners! My girl has a fair amount of cob in her breeding and has been shedding since the start of February! I take a rubber pad with zig-zag teeth to her every night and the amount of fluff that comes off is unreal!

At least at the moment her neck and shoulders are all summer coat, so it's just the sides and bum still shedding the last of the fluff. I come home with more hair on me than on her I reckon!! I usually sweep up a small tub trug's worth of hair!

Nesting birds round my way will be the toastiest!

Not much you can do though I'm afraid, except keep going with the shedding blade/similar- he'll run out of winter coat eventually! The grey hairs will show up more than darker ones too.

 

[pinktiger]

my tb is the same, i keep going as i live in the hope that eventually this will stop, and he will have a lovely summer coat!!! i have a hann two year old and i have to say ive never seen anything so hairy in all my life!!!

i recon he would give any cob a run for their money in the hairy stakes!!! he gets a serious brushing once a day and the floor looks like a bed of fur ( he really loves it tho)!!

 

[arwenplusone]

My foal is shedding at the mo.

i have already knitted her some spare legs and a shoulder out of the hair. Just incase.

 

[bexandspooky]

Thats not shedding!!! Try owning a Part bred welshie (I can only imagine the pain of the pure bred natives!!)

Spooks has a hunter clip (well what is left of one anyway) and his saddle patch is shedding more than that!!

Just keep brushing and it will all be out soon enough!

 

[the watcher]

Ha, I tackled Emerald's coat this morning, unclipped Highland - I could have stuffed the sofa with it by the time I finished. I thought she was looking a bit rump high in the photos yesterday, not now, a full inch of fur has come out - most of which I pulled by hand and just came out in fistfuls.

 

[Shilasdair]

What we really need is one of those really sunny, unusually warm spring days so we can leave them all naked to roll their own hair out.
Or a very strong vacuum cleaner.
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[Colleen_Miss_Tom]

Is it wrong to vacuum a dog ?

If not then perhaps its the only way for horses

 

[zigzag]

In the olden days..... there used to be electric groomers, marvellous for sucking loose hair off and gave a brill sheen to the coat, do they still do them?

 

[the watcher]

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What we really need is one of those really sunny, unusually warm spring days so we can leave them all naked to roll their own hair out.
Or a very strong vacuum cleaner.
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This is why I tackled it today - yesterday was lovely so they were out naked and loosened a lot of it themselves by rolling

 

[Magicmillbrook]

Call that hair, I have three natives. On Monday I filled a feed sack with what I brushed out, some of it blew into next doors orchard (whoops).