Tail bandaging ....Do you ? ...

[Colleen_Miss_Tom]

Well do you and if not why not ....and if yes why do you

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[Tiarella]

No, I dont really see the point.

 

[JessPickle]

Yes as he is really long so will easily be able to touch the end of the box. Stops him rubbing his tail and making it look like a bog brush was my main reasoning!

 

[WoopsiiD]

My old fella used to flick his tail over the back of the box. We got to a show one day-no bandage, to find that he had cut under his dock.

 

[longtalltilly]

Stops them rubbing their tails! finishes off a pulled tail and lays the hair

 

[lauraandjack]

Have seen horses rub tail to the point of bleeding! And on a vain note it makes a mess of the tail if they travel with nothing on it!

For short journeys eg to the beach I just use a neoprene tail guard, much less messing about, if going further afield tail bandage with guard over the top.

 

[shady_lady]

yes! I use a tail bandage with a tail guard on top! otherwise my horse ends up with half a tail left!!

 

[abracadabra]

yes i have one boy who sits on his tail on the ramp, beyond ruined if not bandaged to the max

 

[avthechav]

sometimes.
...no coz she doesnt touch the back of trailer (ifor so back bar is set forward) and when she is in season and excited I dont always trust her to stand behind her for that long!

..yes coz feel like I should as its what I was taught in pony club , when she is not in season its not a dangersport and when excited she makes such a mess of her tail!

hmm, my reasons for wearing one seem a little cosmetic!

 

[Colleen_Miss_Tom]

People ....Your reasons !!

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I shall give mine ...I am not going to bandage after having bandaged missy and tommy ...First off ....They were not tight, but obviously where annoying for them , Both have tried to rub the bandage off , Tommys tail is recovering and the hairs growing back nicely .

Missys is in the process of looking like shes got sweetitch

....Balmoral on thursday arrrrghhhh

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I travelled the pair of them last year without using a tail bandage at all , No rubs , no nothing . Nice tails .

And now both within their first outing , I get 2 poorly tails

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Will not and shall NOT use a tail bandage again .

 

[hadfos]

Yes when travelling..otherwise i would have dock left only

...and maybe minus a little of that too,lol

Havnt done with him for anything else but as he has a full tail i plai(well would if we went anywhere,lol

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[hadfos]

I have started bandaging from middle of tail down,then back up as you can get it much tighter

(did this last wk and it didnt shift

)...i too had the slipping bandage when went from top to bottom nd back up!

 

[ForeverBroke_]

Yes because when i took darcy out the box a little while ago, he had ripped right through all of it! If it wasnt for the bandage, it'd have been his tail which im already struggling to keep , without him hacking it off himself

 

[yeeharider]

use tail guard instead

 

[only_me]

Wear one if going eventing/showing, so it lays the tail for that freshly pulled look

but if going to local sj or xc training/lesson/gallop/hack then dont bother

 

[abracadabra]

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I have started bandaging from middle of tail down,then back up as you can get it much tighter

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thats what i do, much more secure, then a guard over it

 

[abracadabra]

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whats wrong with the reasons

 

[ForeverBroke_]

Oh, i use a tail guard though

 

[hadfos]

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I didnt have one,lol

...is the plan to go over the bandage though...can never have too much padding when they sit on them

 

[Colleen_Miss_Tom]

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whats wrong with the reasons

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My post coincided before folk started to post their reasons .

Plus the votes was not totalling up at one point

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So absolutely nothing wrong with the reasoning now

 

[abracadabra]

lol, right, makes sense now

 

[Lolo]

I do, either to protect the plait, or in El's case to keep it flat because she does have the bog brush syndrome (although lessened by my pulling today!).

 

[hairymolly]

No see my previous post

http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/4190229/page/0/fpart/1/vc/1

 

[RunToEarth]

Well from a purely asthetic point of view, I like my horses' tails to look good, so I bandage.

 

[only_me]

Colleen, get some alvasweet itch shampoo, it is amazing stuff, will stop her itching her tail!!

 

[Colleen_Miss_Tom]

Hairymolly that is terrible

Have you any pics of her tail ? How was it when you first seen it ? .

Poor ponio

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[Damnation]

I use a tail guard.

 

[joy]

I bandage and I'm very good at it probably because I bandage using the Spica method which does not have any specific pressure points and is actually a nursing bandage used for securing broken limbs without becoming a tornique.

 

[Tiffany]

I bandage when travelling her because she leans on the side on the box and rubs her tail. If it's not bandaged it looks like a loo brush when she gets out

 

[Colleen_Miss_Tom]

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Colleen, get some alvasweet itch shampoo, it is amazing stuff, will stop her itching her tail!!

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Its more the top of her dock , I am hoping that the scabs dont come off .

Will try some of that thanks C xx