From the article: Grooming Tips
Do you have a way to put a special shine on your horse's coat or detangle an unruly mane? Share your grooming tips here! Share Your Tips
Whitening Shampoo
- Visit a beauty supply store for whitening shampoo (the blue and purple stuff) -- it costs about a third of what the horse-specific type costs. Works great!
- —Guest fashgirl
Don't buy a grey horse
- Okay that's a bit harsh, and speaking as a woman who has only ever owned grey horses, I don't take my own advice. :-) Seriously, though, I have two things I do to deal with my pee-stained baby: 1. mild dishwashing soap. He soaks in it, just like those old commercials. Dawn really does make him whiter and it doesn't bother his skin. 2. learn to love being a slob. Except when I'm showing (which isn't often with a 4-month-old son), I've learned to not mind the look of a dirty grey horse. He gets baths whenever he's ridden, but if the stain won't come out, I don't worry about it. I'd rather just love him as he is - and he loves his "pee baths".
- —Guest Jenn
Baby Wipes
- Keep a package of baby wipes in your tack box for quick clean ups on both you and your horse.
- —2writenride
Don't Forget the Ears
- I think it's really important to remember the ears while you're grooming your horse. It's easy to overlook that step!
- —AbContests
grooming tips
- I have a jet black horse and dust is so easy to see on him so we cover him in baby oil and put on a cooler blanket and saddle him just before classes. we shave his muzzle and ears and eyelashes. put vaseline around their muzzle and eyes to make them shine. i use black hair spray to cover scars and bites. usually using toothpaste on the socks work and then sprinkling baby powder on them. then we sand the hooves and put black hoof paint on and then we put a clear protection coat of nail polish on. it takes a little while but its works in the show ring!
- —Guest lil 4Her
A Couple Grooming Tips...
- 1. Spending a little extra time on grooming really shows. 2.Baby Oil is one of the best things to keep around. 3. I like to keep three different types of curry combs; a super soft gel one, (availible in regular equestrian stores), a normal oval curry, and a star rubber curry. They each are good for different season's. 4. You don't need to spend money on expensive bathing products;it doesn't even have to be and equine brand to do the job. 5. A whitening toothpaste mix with a bit of water until it foam works good to whiten. (Sometimes it depends on the toothpaste.) Anyways, hope this helps...
- —Guest Diamante13
Mane 'n' Tail
- Mane and tail detangler works the best for getting rid of those tough tangles in your horses mane and tail. it also works wonders when trying to remove nasty burs!
- —Guest CrazyHorseLover
napppipower
- i owning three greys (nightmare) use nappy-san powder it works wonders!
- —Guest welshmountainlover
Believe it or not
- Pickle Juice actually brings out tangles.. When all the pickles are gone i just dump it into a spray bottle and spray directly on the tail and it works like magic. Dont ask how i found this out
- —Guest Dressage Girl
Grooming For Shows
- I too love baby oil, its great for untangling manes an tails. I also put it on their legs and feathers, but not really on the rest of the body. Or it looks greasy. NEVER USE SHINE PRODUCTS ON THE HORSES BACK. Well around where the saddle goes, or else its really slippy. And besies your saddles covering it up anyway. Using Baby oil on the legs looks amazing on black horses. Leaves them nice and shiny too. Another thing I do is use pearl drops tooth paste on white socks and sometimes on my horses blaze. It leaves it lovely and white. I dont know if any other toothpast works aswell though. But if your using on the face be carefull of the eyes. Furtermore, I put plenty of baby oil on the hoofs, let it soak in then go over the hooves with sandpaper. Very gently. It leaves them really clean getting rid of mud stains.
- —Guest SamTrash
Sticky tape
- My horse J.D is forever shedding and is forever wrecking saddle cloths so I use tape wrapped round my hand(sticky side out) and use that to get the hair off.
- —Guest Horse luver*1*
white socks
- If your horse has white socks the best why to get them looking the best they can be is to use daz washing up powder :) it really works !!!!
- —Guest Sally1234
Quik tip#1
- Inorder to get that shiney look in shedding season all you have to do is take an extra 5 min. and work a little harder on those spotts that you usually dont take a lot of time on. Focuse on the spine and work your way down the belly and you'll get the sleekest looking horse you can get in shedding season. Torri Maine
- —Guest Torri
Shiny Coat
- I feed a scoop of sunflower seeds every day and the oils in the seeds make the coat as shiny as ever without the expensive $30 oily stuff you can buy!
- —Guest CrazyThoroughbredOwner
sheen
- So i on a daily basis clean three horse i love them dearly but i've had trouble bringing the sheen out in there coats for shows. until i found baby wipes and microfiber clothe
- —Guest dalitia
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