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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.

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is this the thing that was for sale several + years ago where you had an applicator with a tube bandage on it?
was looking for said thingie a while back but couldnt see them, if that is the same thing
 
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Hairymolly that is terrible
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Have you any pics of her tail ? How was it when you first seen it ? .

Poor ponio
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Sorry no pics but her tail is now pretty normal looking with just a scar on dock and a few white hairs. She did look very odd for a while as vet ran clippers up her dock and round her bum, she had a horsey brazilian.
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I bandage and then have a tail wrap and bag which sits neatly over the top and then i fold the bag section to the top and electric tape it in place ... stops the bag from being too ikky when it comes to getting it off!
 
I do for travelling with a tail guard over the top; otherwise I end up with green or brown streaked tails at the end of the trip. Wouldn't leave one on for more than half an hour, though.
 
My Dad and Pony club told me to so I do it! At the end of the day they are his horses. I've never had a problem and I'm going to invest in some guards to go over the top too - though I think my big feathered effort will have to stick with a bandage his tail is sooooo thick I think a guard would be too tight.
 
No- Seen too many injuries, but use a tail gaurd instead.

I think from WATO it is illegal to have no protection of a horses tail when travelling, although having a padded back wall instead is acceptable.
 
Horses can rub their tails when traveling and you don't want to end up with a bog brush! Also, I pull my horse's tail and putting a bandage on for a bit makes it look much more smart.
 
I've never see problem, or had a problem when I've bandaged tails for travelling.... I've Heard of tail bandages causing problems when overtight, to the point of tails dropping off, but easy to avoid I would have thought.

I've seen some nasty incidents with horses getting dock hair pinched somehow and panicking, I would never travel without a tail bandage, would leave off the boots for a short trip down the road but never the tail bandage.
 
ive never *personally* seen any tail bandaging injuries, or heard first hand from anybody i know that they have, but perhaps its the same as nasty leg straps and neck cover stories, and me and my horses have just been incredibly lucky over the years and some poor bugger somewhere else gets all my bad luck!
 
I once met a pony that had lost it's tail after being bandaged for the trip on the ferry to Guernsey. Another time we found one of the TB's with a tail bandage hanging out of his butt, he'd eaten it!
 
I don't use a tail bandage/tail guard on the mare I have now as she absolutely loathes her tail being touched.

I have always put a tail bandage/guard on previous horses though.
 
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Another time we found one of the TB's with a tail bandage hanging out of his butt, he'd eaten it!

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haha, was it a *crepe* bandage?
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My mare is bandaged to go to shows, because she is plaited before travelling. My gelding doesn't have anything, as he always wears a padded travel rug complete with padded tail flap. It must do the job as he's not the best traveller, and we know he leans on the ramp sometimes, but he's never *touchwood* come out with so much as a rub. When he goes in a lorry instead of a trailer he doesn't wear his rug and I put a tail guard on him.
 
I tail bandage and then tail guard, as mine sits on the bar of the trailer and ends up with bog brush tail!
 
bandage if going somewhere smart to help the pulled tails sit better. tail guard over the top.

otherwise just a tail guard.

the only injuries i have seen from tail bandages is where they were put on wrongly/ too tightly or for too long.
 
Yes almost always (unless Im in a tearing hurry to get hom then its just a tail guard). I use one underneath a guard to protect the tail, I find the bandage helps stick the guard in place as some guards can slip.
 
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I've never see problem, or had a problem when I've bandaged tails for travelling....

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I've Heard of tail bandages causing problems when overtight, to the point of tails dropping off, but easy to avoid I would have thought.

<font color="blue"> but is that just urban legend or do you really know someone who has? Just asking as people say it but I've never known any personally </font>

I've seen some nasty incidents with horses getting dock hair pinched somehow and panicking, I would never travel without a tail bandage, would leave off the boots for a short trip down the road but never the tail bandage.

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<font color="blue"> Unless its been an emergency I'm pretty much the same. Will travel short distances with no boots or in brushing boots say, but usually have tail guard but mainly bandage on. Especially if competing or her tail looks like a green streaked bog brush!!</font>
 
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