Well, I've got the master fidgeter and this year we've got to do actual hunter braids, all 1000 of them (I'm exagerating, of course), rather than our easy 10 button braids! Does anyone have good suggestions for keeping a horse still/occupied while being braided?? Keenya loves to flip his head right when you get to the very bottom of the braid so it ends up ripped out of your fingers. When you have only 10 braids to do it isn't that big of a deal... but when there's 50...lol *wants to die*
There really is nothing you can give her to occupy her time that will make her head stand still. You just have to teach her that this is the time she needs to stand still.
Put her in her stall with her head in the corner and go to work.
Hopefully she will fall asleep.
haha I wish! The hay net thing = horse ripping hay out of the net, shaking head and getting hay in his mane.... No, he can't just chomp away happily, he has to rip the stinkin hay out. lol Tried having hay in a bucket and the same thing. He has too much personality for his own good... and I really mean his own good, because if it takes me 4 stinkin hours to braid we may never go to a show, and he loooooooves being in a crowd. lol I wish he was braver and we could get past pre-entry eventing or doing any kind of jumper show. He has talent, but only natural rails and flowers for this guy. Show him a liverpool or a ditch and good god! :P
The other thing I've heard for braiding is to put a towel/cloth over their eyes (or just the one on the side you're braiding)... that might be worth a try too I suppose.
You could always take the time to braid the night before and use one of those hoods that goes from the head and covers the neck. That should keep the braids in place overnight. Just check in the morning in case he rubbed a little and some popped out.
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