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How often do you bathe your horses?

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#1 ·
How often do you give your horses baths?

I don't bathe my horses very often. They don't like it, so I just stick to regular grooming.
 
#4 ·
My ranch horses have never been bathed. I won't with them unless they get into something. Like paint or oil (that's never happened).

I groom polo horses in the summer and bathe them after every practice and game. The white one gets bathed before every practice and game (ugh - I really don't have time, either).
 
#6 ·
During show season, we have shows every weekend. So, pretty much every weekend. My horses love it though...
 
#8 ·
Mine get hosed down after just about every ride during summer when they get sweaty.

As for a bath though they only get on occasionally if they are really dirty and I feel they need it.
 
#9 ·
I wash them as soon as the temps in the spring allow, to wash off the winter grunge. :wink: After that, mostly hosing after rides or when one has decided that nice mud hole was just what he needed! I don't show, so it's just to remove any accumulation of fly sprays or dried sweat. Plus, both mine like a good hosing. :lol:
 
#12 ·
Only wash in summer as otherwise too cold. For horses i'm showing they get spot washed regularily depending on the horse that could be almost daily:lol: My old halter mare was a very high percentage of white so to maintain that nice white she saw Mr hose regularly{joys of owning a white horse}.This isn't a full body bath just hosing & spot washing,full body bath were usually just prior to showing. On hot days when they have been doing some sweating they always enjoy a rinse off after riding too.:wink:
 
#13 ·
in "winter" (southern california winters arent very cold at all) I will wash off sweat regularly as long as there is enough time during the day for them to dry off before it gets cold at night.

I don't like to give them real baths until after they shed their longer coats. My white mare I will wash more often than the others, just because she'll get a urine stain or something that I can't brush out.

During summer I will give them baths probably every other month, and maybe more depending. Last year there were plenty of 114 degree days and instead of working them I'd bring them up for a bath.
 
#15 ·
Very, very rarely do I give my boy a bath. Out of the near 5 years that we've been together, I think I've bathed him........once......maybe twice.

However, over the summer months, after a good ride where he's sweaty, hot and not too happy about it - I'll hose him off in the washbay and then squeegie him down before I turn him out.

I spend more time brushing his coat and legs - maybe that's from my Pony Club days?
 
#17 ·
During the summer about once every other week and always the day before a show so end up being about once a week. My mare loves water so I am always wetting her, I always rinse them after I ride during the summer. During the winter I never get a chance because of the cold, unless it gets to he in the 70s like the other day, but it was too windy still.
 
#18 ·
I hose mine off after every ride in summer, sweety yuck yuck. My gelding gets very aggravated by bugs here. He has to be fly sheeted/stalled all the time, fly sprayed constantly etc. That along with rolling gets some grungy build up. I found a shampoo that appears to be very soothing for his skin and he gets a weekly bath. Other then that right before shows.
 
#19 ·
Guess it depends on what you call giving them a bath.
Mine can go into the low side of the pond, but usually muddy it up and come out dirtier than they went it. If it's about 100 degrees I'll sponge some water on their face and head and soak down their legs to help them feel cooler.
Brushing is the only cleaning they get. Unless you count cleaning the smegma from between their teets and that's done on an as needed bases.
 
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