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the horse from hell!

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#1 ·
...or atleast her tail is. my 2yr old Belle, has this HORRIBLE tail. its LONG, THICK, and.... SPIRAL! it lays about 1" on the ground, but the hair is so spiraly/curly, that it winds around itself. not like its tangled, but its in ropes of hair just swirled around itself. i guess i have to get some pics to show you guys, but its annoying. no matter how much i brush it or put product in it, as soon as the brush is through the hair, it twists back up! it looks like i never brush her tail! :evil: anyone have a horse like this? im really fed up!
 
#61 ·
Beautiful girl! Is that the tail you are trying to fix? Goodness, it looks beautiful to me!!! Do Standardbreds typically have straight manes and tails? Maybe you're just used to super-straight ones and her waves throw you off? LOL
omg STB tails are soooo different from one horse to another. we have long and short and medium length tails. but we have pin straight, wavy, little curly, and REALLY curly (like it forms dreadlocks) lol.

the tail im fixing is the one in my first post on here, not my broodmare above. my broodmare has a thin/medium length wavy tail. her 2yr old is the one im fixing and she has a LONG extremely curly that it forms "dreadlocks". but i guess ill just leave it as it is, as long as its not ending in a huge mess, i guess its ok.
 
#64 ·
As for the tail, it's fine, leave it. All of ours are like that. I detangle Annie's every few weeks. Within a day it looks like your mare's.

Regarding the feet, all horses are different. All three of mine are on different schedules. Magic, the shetland, gets a trim once a year. And he only ever takes a rasp to her to balance it out a bit, she doesn't grow enough to need an actual trim. Chopper gets done every 3-4 months, and sometimes he doesn't even need it. He also rarely gets a real trim. Annie gets done every 6 weeks. She has shoes, and doesn't go without them except in winter. All horses are different, and what may work for one horse may not work for another.
 
#65 ·
Yep, I have actually owned a couple horses like that. Why do you want to brush it all the time?? Unless there are insane mats and stuff getting caught in it, it shouldnt be a problem. Plus everytime you are going to brush it, you are thining the tail out more and more each time.

If you show, untangle by hand the tail and put some showsheen in it. It will help keep tangle free for the day. I think those tails are absolutely stunning.
 
#67 ·
I brush my horses tail everytime that I ride. Amazingly it doesn't make his tail any less thin or short. In fact, it has helped stimulate growth in his tail. It's longer. I brush it like I brush my own hair, in sections. I have extremly long hair and have to brush the bottom half, then middle, then middle and bottom, then top alone, then top and middle, and so on and so on. Besides he enjoys it too much for me to stop.
 
#71 ·
Both my horses look like that. Horse tails are so pretty, but they are a pain. I would rather just cut it all off, but then my horses would be attacked by flies, so I let them "go" all Spring and Summer. And then I wrap them in the late Fall, all the way until the flies show up in Spring. It's time consuming and annoying, but it comes in handy for the horses in Summer :p
 
#72 ·
I had an arabian mare whit that kind of tail, but I didn't want to cutt her long beautiful tail. So I simpley washed it until it was really clean and after that I use show shine or similar that make it slip and then I braid it, and only release it when I were going some where or when I had to braid it again. =)
 
#73 ·
As for the tail, I love Infusium 23!! :)

As for the feet, I think people need to stop attacking the OP in this thread. We don't know her unique situation at all. My mare is barefoot and has been her entire life without issue, although I do get her feet trimmed every 6-8 weeks by the farrier. BUT that doesn't mean that's how EVERYONE needs to handle their horse's care, so I'm not going to pass judgement on you as a person or a horse owner :)
 
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