When should I get the shedding blade out?

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I'm a first time horse owner and today I noticed my mare is really moulting. She is rugged and stabled at night at the moment (She'll be out 24/7 from 1st april) I was just wondering whether to get the shedding blade out now or wait a little longer? My username is Northernlass but I'm in the South so it's a bit warmer down here.
 
The horses on my yard are being furminated daily now, and the difference is beautiful - tidy gleaming coats coming through :) Mine are full-clipped so I'm a cheat!
 
I've had mine out for about 2 weeks....and i'm still getting covered in palomino hair daily! Not 100% sure where it's all coming from now
 
I have heard a lot about these shedding blades but never actually seen one until today. I can not believe the price, £20 for what is basically a hacksaw blade set in a strip of wood. I have always used a metal curry comb, its about 45years old, it must have been about, £1.I also got given a round sprung one which must be about 20years old.
The Magic Brush looks very much like the veg brush I had in the 70's when I got married. I love their marketing hutzpah, but I think you all been have been conned. I wonder how I can rebrand the plastic curry comb, I must have about six kicking around?
 
honetpot said:
I have heard a lot about these shedding blades but never actually seen one until today. I can not believe the price, £20 for what is basically a hacksaw blade set in a strip of wood. I have always used a metal curry comb, its about 45years old, it must have been about, £1.I also got given a round sprung one which must be about 20years old.
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the shedding blade I've got was only a couple of quid. It's just a strip of metal with little teeth on one side and plain on the other - you clip the handles together to make a loop. They've been about for many years, at least as long as the round sprung ones.
 
Our shedding blade only cost a couple of quid - sounds like you found an "artisan" one honetpot :D

As shedding blades don't rip the hair out (and therefore won't cause discomfort), we use one the moment they start moulting whenever we groom. No need to overdo it each time but it makes the Shetland visibly more comfortable. I didn't realise there was a specific moment to use them though - have I been doing it wrong?
 
honetpot said:
See, completely mad.
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the colours are a marketing ploy. However, there is a grain of truth if you consider the texture of different coats - different brushes suit different coats (and an individual set for each horse ain't a bad idea from a biosecurity point of view). Those particular brushes are well made, I have a couple, not the sets, one to suit the hairy fluff-ball pony and a different one thats good on the short, dense 'otter' coat of the other pony.

At my advanced age anything that makes the relentless hard work and elbow grease just a little bit easier/enjoyable is a bonus.

The two ponies have different shedding blades too as their coats are so different, no one design fits all.
 
I've had two greys for quite a while so never gave a thought to hair type going hand in hand with colour, last autumn I bought a piebald cob, I had noticed a bit of a difference in the type of coat but on looking more closely the white hair is completely straight and very silky, the black hair is more wiry and not at all silky.
Chalk and cheese.
 
catkin said:
the colours are a marketing ploy. However, there is a grain of truth if you consider the texture of different coats - different brushes suit different coats (and an individual set for each horse ain't a bad idea from a biosecurity point of view). Those particular brushes are well made, I have a couple, not the sets, one to suit the hairy fluff-ball pony and a different one thats good on the short, dense 'otter' coat of the other pony.

At my advanced age anything that makes the relentless hard work and elbow grease just a little bit easier/enjoyable is a bonus.

The two ponies have different shedding blades too as their coats are so different, no one design fits all.
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I didn't realise there were different types of shredding blade, any suggestions where I might find them.
 
LD&S said:
I didn't realise there were different types of shredding blade, any suggestions where I might find them.
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it's more the size of the teeth etc than anything else.
fluff-ball pony has a cow comb at the moment (wide apart teeth) and will go onto the loop horse one as the coat reduces
otter-coat pony does better with a lincoln groomer but his hair is short and very very dense.
I got my various combs/blades from our local agri merchants
 
LD&S said:
I've had two greys for quite a while so never gave a thought to hair type going hand in hand with colour, last autumn I bought a piebald cob, I had noticed a bit of a difference in the type of coat but on looking more closely the white hair is completely straight and very silky, the black hair is more wiry and not at all silky.
Chalk and cheese.
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And weirdly the two different colours will be different warmths. My physio showed me the other day with a thermometer (or something that measures heat from the outside!). The hair is different in bi/tri coloured horses and therefore retains/loses more heat.
 
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