Gingerwitch
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Being lazy - so thought i would ask on here?
What is Mr Blue Pipe?
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Crazy Friesian
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Im guessing they mean the type of pipe used for water. "Alcothene" is the other name. I used to work for a dressage trainer that used it for their stallions. Generally when walking past mares in the barn style stable.
Enfys
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OMG, I almost said "In my day..."
Mr Bluepipe used to be a length of alkathene piping that many people carried as a whip/crop, I am not sure whether it is something completely different now though.
I looked it up because I wasn't sure I had the name right.
http://www.ppsonline.co.uk/mdpe_water_pipe.htm
Mr Bluepipe used to be a length of alkathene piping that many people carried as a whip/crop, I am not sure whether it is something completely different now though.
I looked it up because I wasn't sure I had the name right.
http://www.ppsonline.co.uk/mdpe_water_pipe.htm
natalia
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AKA "the yard of truth", and rather a good tool when confronted with a nappy little s***!
LauraWinter
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Its sounds like it could be someone's pet name for their, you know, thing
Gingerwitch
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LauraWinter ! how rude........................ (giggle giggle)
OH has just mentioned nuts and tits as i read your post - which has cracked me up - but he is on about feed for the wild birds......
OH has just mentioned nuts and tits as i read your post - which has cracked me up - but he is on about feed for the wild birds......
LauraWinter
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It was the first thing that came into my head when I saw the post title!
However, I have just eaten a whole packet of jelly babies (one of the big ones, to myself!) and I think those colour numbers have gone to my head, I feel in a very childish mood
Gingerwitch
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Ive just been biting the heads of jelly babies too.... and i have had 2 cadbury creme eggs ! Hubby is in hiding now !
Irishlife
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Its known as Wavern pipe here as that is the manufacturer. It is black in colour and one showing gent shows all his horses at Dublin holding a length of it. IT is known as in "Give him a tip with the wavern" i.e. give it a belt with the pipe
LauraWinter
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one showing gent shows all his horses at Dublin holding a length of it.
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I'm sorry but this is just too much.....
I must remember to stay away from Jelly babies and Fanta
one showing gent shows all his horses at Dublin holding a length of it.
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I'm sorry but this is just too much.....
I must remember to stay away from Jelly babies and Fanta
Mike007
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Compared to the average riding whip or schooling whip, Mr Blue pipe is Kind . It does not cause the same cutting marking or bruising. Yes it stings but there is far less chance of longer term pain and damage. I cant believe the nasty things that pass for riding whips these days. It is now almost impossible to find a decent one .
ester
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Have to say I have only seen it used for getting cattle in not with horses, but the concept is the same!
trendybraincell
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My friend had a nasty Section C stallion, the only way you could handle him was if you had your blue pipe with you. The surface area that hits the horse is larger than that of a whip, therefore it should hurt less...it also makes a wicked sound that is quite effective too
Oh and the stallion has long since lost his knackers and lives life as a nice happy gelding
Oh and the stallion has long since lost his knackers and lives life as a nice happy gelding
JanetGeorge
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I occasionally use a length of blue pipe with ill-mannered youngsters (particularly colts who are starting to feel their hormones) - I use it for specific problems. One is the colt who insists on walking all over you when led. A 'poke' with the pipe in the neck or shoulder area tells him he's too close to me!
I will also use it with a colt who rears when led. Obviously it HAS to be used at least once to deliver a firm smack across the top of the front leg AS he goes up (afterwards is less than useless.) Once he knows the blue pipe 'bites', I will carry the blue pipe in my left hand, pointing across the front of his upper forearm. He knows if he goes up, his legs will meet it! His choice!
It's a short term 'aid' in fixing two potentially dangerous problems - if used across the top of the forearm, it creates a sudden, noise and a sting - without doing any damage. If used to 'poke' a horse who is getting too close, it is a slightly firmer version of the thumb I use in the same way when teaching foals to lead (and I don't damage my thumb!)
It's certainly NOT something I use often - last 'victim' was Rambo as a 2-3 year old colt (he's now a 17.1hh, 5 year old stallion,weighing about 750 kg - thankfully with good manners!!)
I will also use it with a colt who rears when led. Obviously it HAS to be used at least once to deliver a firm smack across the top of the front leg AS he goes up (afterwards is less than useless.) Once he knows the blue pipe 'bites', I will carry the blue pipe in my left hand, pointing across the front of his upper forearm. He knows if he goes up, his legs will meet it! His choice!
It's a short term 'aid' in fixing two potentially dangerous problems - if used across the top of the forearm, it creates a sudden, noise and a sting - without doing any damage. If used to 'poke' a horse who is getting too close, it is a slightly firmer version of the thumb I use in the same way when teaching foals to lead (and I don't damage my thumb!)
It's certainly NOT something I use often - last 'victim' was Rambo as a 2-3 year old colt (he's now a 17.1hh, 5 year old stallion,weighing about 750 kg - thankfully with good manners!!)
Irishlife
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Laura Winter - I hope you have got over your E-number frenzy!!!!!!!!! AH the poor old gent............ if only he knew. I am looking at my piece outside the stables in quite a different light now - Floozy!!!
LOL
skewby
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I always thought people who used mr blue pipe, used him to give a horse a sound beating that wouldn't leave marks, unlike a whip.
I would love to stand corrected though
I would love to stand corrected though
Mike007
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sadly all things can be abused,but a sharp slap with a length of alkathene, gives a horse the same message as one of those nasty thin whips. The lack of a mark means the lack of longer term tissue damage and pain, which would continue to upset the horse ,long after the reason for the slap has been forgoten.
JanetGeorge
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I always thought people who used mr blue pipe, used him to give a horse a sound beating that wouldn't leave marks, unlike a whip.
I would love to stand corrected though
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Can't speak for others - but where I'm concerned, you can definitely stand corrected!! NO horse on my yard EVER gets a beating - sound or otherwise - and any member of my staff who administered more than one sharp (deserved) slap to any horse here would find themselves out the gate with my foot up their a*se!! And I'm the judge of whether it was 'deserved'. I have 60 horses on the place and - at most - 5 will occasionally warrant ONE sharp smack to remind them of their manners!
All of the candidates are colts under 4 years old.
I always thought people who used mr blue pipe, used him to give a horse a sound beating that wouldn't leave marks, unlike a whip.
I would love to stand corrected though
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Can't speak for others - but where I'm concerned, you can definitely stand corrected!! NO horse on my yard EVER gets a beating - sound or otherwise - and any member of my staff who administered more than one sharp (deserved) slap to any horse here would find themselves out the gate with my foot up their a*se!! And I'm the judge of whether it was 'deserved'. I have 60 horses on the place and - at most - 5 will occasionally warrant ONE sharp smack to remind them of their manners!
All of the candidates are colts under 4 years old.