Why oh why did I buy a coloured??

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Alfie enjoying the sunshine after his mud pack! Looking better after a beard trim and mane pull, just need to thin it out a bit now ready for plaiting.

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And I can make it a trio, I spent 1 hour de-fuzzing and mud scrapping my coloured only to watch her walk of to the mud wallow and reapplying her mud pack.
 
When I was little I had a grey and because we live in Devon the soil here is actually pink! So he always used to look like a strawberry roan when he'd had a wallow.

I've got a coloured, and when he rolls he gets his face right down in and rolls so its all over his eyes and in his ears (silly boy) - whatta nightmare!

He's fully clipped (feathers included - another nightmare!) and wears a rug; also as he's sweet-itchy he wears a hoody which is much much easier.

Somewhere else on this forum people have suggested Pig Oil and Sulphur. I put some on my boy's legs and the gunk washed off mega easily so it might be worth putting some on a sponge, brush or whatever and brushing over yours so the mud doesn't stick so much.

Or you could try a hoody fly-sheet underneath whatever rugs he wears to protect from the gunge: I'd hesitate to recommend one of those lycra hoody things coz elsewhere on this form (not long ago should be in the archive) someone was saying they'd had a bad experience with one - I wouldn't use one coz my man got himself in a muddle with it, all down over his eyes and he was just standing there saying "rescue me" - so I'd hesitate to suggest one.
 
I have a grey who like to rub every part of his body in the muddiest part of the field possible. He also loves to lie in his poo in stable :mad: And the mad thing is, after losing my chestnut i went out only looking for a grey lol
 
Got one here too:
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mostly brown/chestnut ish on his body with 4 white legs almost and his favourite thing?
Running through the mud...

Found hibiscrub works wonders with a brush on white patches!
 
That's nothing. My friend's coloured used to think he was a bay. He made himself a mud wallow in the field and every single day when you turned him out he would roll until he was completely covered. You couldn't even see the white bits he was so bad.

That said you have my real sympathies. My current horse is black so you'd think it'd be easier but I've never known a horse that likes to get quite so muddy. Scraping it out of her ears and from round her eyes takes forever.
 
I have a grey AND a coloured! I don't know why I do it to myself..! :p Although my grey does manage to keep herself clean mostly. Coloured pony doesn't! Although she is having her first ever bath tomorrow, which will probably be a waste of time but we want to send some pics of her to her old owners so got to get her looking smart :)
 
See my dark bay mare actually gets mudder than my coloured, she likes to put on her eye makeup and the full body work too.
 
Like DWI I have a black horse who adores the mud! I can sympathise about the eye makeup and the ears!! I also find he shows the dust in his coat like no other horse on the yard. I had a bright bay years ago and he was really easy to keep looking presentable!
 
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