So...tips and tricks for snowy white horses

[Auslander]

Go...

A thing is happening!

 

[ihatework]

Dye them brown

Employ an exceptional groom with OCD

Advertise them on HorseQuest with a reduced price to get a quick sale

 

[poiuytrewq]

A thing happened to me a few months ago. The past week or so I’m wishing that thing were black or bay…
Snuggy hoods?

 

[tda]

Lots of water, show shine, pig oil, stain remover, dolly blue

 

[Cloball]

Close your eyes until spring

 

[HeyMich]

Chalk powder. Everywhere.

Or a sales advert?

 

[Ceifer]

Learn to embrace off white. Call it cremello or something.

Or if you do want to really embrace having a grey horse that is grey invest in rugs with full necks, snuggy hoods and a tail bag. Keeping them clipped makes cleaning easier.

 

[Auslander]

Luckily I'm pretty good at keeping white ones white.

This is not the thing I did. This is the last grey I had to maintain in a suitable state to go hunting every Sunday!

 

[Tarragon]

Move to Australia?

 

[Tarragon]

If it is a Highland pony, then I think mud coloured is acceptable

 

[LeneHorse]

When will photographic evidence of The Thing be provided?

 

[First Frost]

Full clipped in the winter. Rugs with neck covers. Lots of blue based shampoo and hot water. Tail always plaited down in the field in winter.



Then buy a buckskin same model but different colour!

 

[Fleece Navidad]

Close your eyes until spring

This.

Or clip, rug to eyeballs and wonder how they managed to get mud along their spine in spite of rugs.

 

[poiuytrewq]

I keep making comments like “it’s not that bad” and “ah it’s hardly noticeable”
What’s a yellow stain here and there..

 

[ElleSkywalkingintheair]

I've just turned my black and white Fluffles out with tail bag, neck rug with little cuff, greased feathers and forelock so much so she resembles a weasel.

She will still be filthy tomorrow so will need washing with blue or purple shampoo, hot showers and strong arms for the scrubbings

Otherwise some healthy neglect and not looking below her elbows till April does the job

Am hoping the white relates to a new gremlin

 

[SEL]

Jet wash / good wash bay.
Tail bags.

When do we get photos??

 

[Auslander]

He's arriving this weekend. Pics to follow!
Not a gremlin. Quite the opposite!

 

[Cowpony]

Just accept that you're going to have a poobald until it gets warm enough to bath them

 

[Boulty]

Only allow them to be viewed from a distance of about 50m or so? That way nobody notices the subtle poo stains that have evaded your best efforts!

 

[maya2008]

Full neck rugs at all times! Stable…turnout…fly rugs…

 

[Meredith]

Have one like mine. I was worried about buying a 'white' grey but he's OK really.
<<<
He is grubby but rarely looks dirty and mud seems to come out of his coat with little effort
but
his mane can turn vanilla coloured and his tail light brown.
He wears a cotton sheet with belly cover plus turnout plus either a turnout neck or full snuggy neck and head.
I think in the grand scheme of things I got off lightly.

 

[AShetlandBitMeOnce]

I'm going to cut the bottom 20cm off of Dex's tail when spring comes, until them I'm shutting my eyes! He's still greying out which blends the brown to grey quite nicely, but it's making his tail look worse where the brown is growing out and its grey at the top! Having sandy soil and a lack of any real mud also helps!

 

[nagblagger]

I would give up now, even when there is plenty of grass they will find the only muddy spot to roll in.

 

[fidleyspromise]

Look how snowy white my girl is? dazzling isn't she?

 

[LadyGascoyne]

For bright white socks and manes and tails, I have a hack!

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A tiny bit of honey heel mixed into shampoo works amazingly well. I don’t know how it would go for full body washes but I can get a yellow palomino tail back to sparkling white in a single wash by adding some.

 

[Highmileagereindeer]

Only ride out in the dark, and use a reflective bum sheet! Biological soap powder gets tail stains out, and a damp cloth wrung out in the solution makes some headway on the body stains. Try not to soak down to skin level and rinse well.

 

[OldNag]

At one point my kids had 2 white ponies.
Show mornings were such fun .

I know I was mightily relieved when they were old enough to do jumping etc and we could ditch showing classes!!

I did have a lot of chalk and blue shampoo in the grooming kit....

But most of the time I just gave in and accepted that the ponies identified as skewbald.

 

[cauda equina]

I read somewhere that the Spanish Riding School's horses get skipped out hourly during the night to minimise stable stains

 

[Auslander]

He's here! Strolled off the lorry, into his stable, stuck his head in the hay bar, and has barely come up for air since!
Herbie-17hh, 15yr old reg ID

 

[southerncomfort]

Very handsome!!