Tail washing - yes or no?

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I may be brave and wash it...if I end up in hospital after a near-fatal wedgie, I will blame you all.
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Take your undies off 1st
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Yes - i washed Blue's tail on Sunday. Plaited it and chucked him back out... took him all of a couple of days to lose the band and for his tail to be loose again!
 
I think I would wash rather than having poo stuck to it. Won't take long to dry if it is sunny like today. I used a hairdryer once to dry a pony (was trying to dry it off quickly to take to a friend's wedding) and it went beserk. Was fine being clipped etc so we thought he wouldn't mind, but apparently hairdryers are much more frightening than clippers.
 
Well, I bit the bullet and washed her tail (with hot water to protect my assets from being wedgied)...she wasn't too impressed...but I took her walkies to dry it off which she thought was fun...and my friend is doing my herd tonight so she'll get the equine abuse, not me!
And Theresa_F...I have a Shire x who has more tail than you can put both hands round...with spiral mudlocks too. God knows how I'm going to wash that one....docking may be good!
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PS I wore my biggest granny pants so any wedgie pressure would be evenly distributed...health and safety, eh?
 
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PS I wore my biggest granny pants so any wedgie pressure would be evenly distributed...health and safety, eh?

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pmsl bridget jones eat your heart out
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Sounds like you need some survivor detangler and a made to measure extra large tailbag - two of my "can't live without" items, essential to the gypsy cob owner.

Put the mudlock into a bucket of hot water and leave to soak as long as you can. Then wash as best you are able to and put loads of survivor on and gently comb out. Plait and bag and then forget for two weeks.

Comb out and put little more survivor on, then plait and bag for another two weeks.

Last April I didn't really need to wash out Chancer's tail for his first show it was so clean and silky - hadn't been washed since September, just kept as above - our winter field was a mud bath.

Now trying to see if I can develop leg bags for the feather.
 
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