*sighs* "I'm never having another grey, or one with white bits" ...

[tatty_v]

I’m afraid I’m mean and he’s out in a rainsheet to fend off the mud, but this greeted me one morning in the summer...

 

[Bernster]

Is this where I confess that mine is on grooming livery?! That covers me for poo stains in the summer and mud baths in the winter. I sometimes feel like it’s not worth it for the summer months but boy do I appreciate it in the winter when I’m down late in the evening and don’t have to spend ages cleaning!

 

[BallyRoanBaubles]

Yup feel your pain! Thankfully my horse is now clipped and rugged even when he gets his clipped bits dirty they brush out dead easy

 

[3OldPonies]

*wails* But it's only the end of summer, Shady!

Mind you, this was my last lad in high summer too:

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Oy, did you take a picture of my grey? (Only joking). He looks like that everytime it's rained and he's not been wearing a rug 😂😂😂😂

 

[FinnBobs]

I totally feel your pain on that front!

 

[AandK]

I finally managed to buy a chestnut this time! I can watch him roll in the mud and not feel despair. It's really nice. 😂

Same here! It is quite refreshing after 17yrs with my grey, he is now retired so free to plaster himself in mud to his hearts content without me having to try and remove it all every 5min!

 

[Pippity]

Even the mud-coloured ones aren't entirely safe... Many years ago, I loaned a black cob who lived out in a chalky field. I came down one day and couldn't see any sign of my horse in the field. There was, however, a new horse - a grubby-looking grey.

Got closer and realised that, no, it wasn't a new horse. It was my black cob, coated in chalk mud. It was an inch thick in places - took me hours to chip it all off!

 

[Rosemary28]

Luckily hairy pony is bay so he just looked a little soggy... but his piebald friend had found the soggiest bit of field and made a nice little mud bath - luckily only his feather was muddy!

 

[BigGingerMare]

This.

 

[BigGingerMare]

Can't get file to attach. Just picture a big, vaguely horse shaped lump of mid, and believe me when i tell you it's grey underneath.

 

[Nudibranch]

It's the one thing I don't miss about my mostly white piebald!

I have to admit, colour was a consideration when I switched to natives.

 

[HufflyPuffly]

Yep also agree that being a swamp donkey isn't just limited to greys:

 

[Shady]

Yep also agree that being a swamp donkey isn't just limited to greys:

I love the fact that your arms are firmly folded in what can only be a properly irked way and you are clearly having a good rant too if your darling horse's ear is anything to go by! xxxxx

 

[marmalade76]

Wow. My friend has a grey and holy smokes does she like a roll, she is always the dirtiest in the herd.

Yes, they seem to roll more than most and my theory is they feel the need to camouflage themselves.

I keep promising myself that I won't have another grey but I seem to keep ending up with them. But you know what they say about gift horses..

 

[Apercrumbie]

Well at least his face is clean?

 

[Gazen]

I have a grey and a skewbald. At the moment they are out in rain sheets, which is 100% for my benefit so that I don't have to wait for the mud to dry so that I can ride them.

 

[Gazen]

I used to have a bay who could come in muddy from the paddock in the middle of the summer when it hadn't raised for 3 weeks. I never knew how she managed it. All of her rugs were full necks and the deepest ones I could find that touched under her belly. She was the ultimate in hippos

 

[Surbie]

I think this is about the only time where I feel a bit smug at having a sweetitch horse who also has well-oiled feathers. He's the cleanest thing on the yard every morning.

However he is very tough on a) rugs and b) washing machines.