I brush my horse's tails sometimes.
My one gelding's tail is wrapped in Vetwrap. It'll get brushed in a month.
My other gelding and mare will get their tails brushed when I feel like just grooming them (of if they have stuff in their tail)
I always use conditioner.
I brush tails only when they are going to show, get nasty dirty, or in the winter time, once a week. I try to not brush everyday as the tail grows thicker and longer if left unbrushed. If it gets really long I will braid it and bag it up or vet rap it.
i groom top to bottom each time i ride,sonny has a huge thick mane and tail-burrs are just nasty this year-those of you in Illinois know what i mean. I groomed yesterday and today so full of the burrs it took two of us and baby oil to get them out-He is outside during the day.
Hello appy!
this is a good question actually, because today I was just wondering the same thing. I wish I could brush my geldings tail often, but it gets so tangled so often, that I can only brush it after I wash it and deep condition it. I don't know how to fix this over the summer, it was nice and I kept it decent, but in the winter, it's so nasty! im going to go out there tomorrow and wash it because he has dingleberrys. Ive never wrapped or bagged..... is it ok to do in the winter? any ideas? his tail is down to the ground, i have to trim it occasionally. I wash with mane and tail shampoo and condition with cowboy magic. tomorrow im taking out my aussie shampoo lol to see if that helps.
I like MTG as a detangler and helping it to grow, braiding it, and tail bags or vet wrapping it. I am actually gonna wrap one of mine tonight (see above tail) and I will try to take pics as I go and post them here in a series.
I love my Aussie Shampoo! Never used it on the horses though.
I am going to vet wrap (i didn't have luck with tail bags) Gem's and Vega's tail.. mostly likely tomorrow. Montana's tail is already up.
I'm going to only do it in the winter because it can be quite gross out and I wont have to worry about it getting all muddy.
I learnt this from AKPaintlover.
What I do is I put MTG (or any other conditioner) I just put it at the dock of the tail. Then I seperate into 3 sections (I get any tangles out with my fingers). Then I put the tail into a loose braid and secure it with a band at the bottom. Then I loop it through the tail (like where I started the braid) 1-2 times, depending on the tail length. Then I take the vet wrap, and starting where I started the braid, I loop some vet wrap in there (kind of hard to explain) and then I wrap the entire tail, working my way down, and then back up. I stop before it reaches the dock.
I'll take a video of it tomorrow, cause i'm unsure my directions make any sense! lol
lol, this tail definitely needs to start being wrapped up, I never noticed how long it had gotten after I put MTG on it for a month staight. I never brushed it neither.
I brush mine everyday that I am out at the barn (4-5 times a week). His tail also hits the ground so I trim every so often. But when I say brush I mostly brush at the top and the bottom, in the middle I do a really lite detangle brushing. We get tons of burs this time of year also so I use my fingers to get them out. I love my boys tail it is so thick and long everyone is always so jealous about it.
I'll take pics tomorrow of thunder's tail. THis tail only gets brushed maybe 1 every couple months because even a week after washing it....it's all tangled. he's got weird hair....thick and corse never soft.
OH and thanks appy and mini! ill have to try something. ill take some before and after pics lol. do you wash out the conditioner? or leave it in? how often do you change and rewrap?
I'll take pics tomorrow of thunder's tail. THis tail only gets brushed maybe 1 every couple months because even a week after washing it....it's all tangled. he's got weird hair....thick and corse never soft.
OH and thanks appy and mini! ill have to try something. ill take some before and after pics lol. do you wash out the conditioner? NO I USE MTG AND IT IS NOT TO BE WASHED OUT or leave it in? how often do you change and rewrap? DEPENDS ON THE HORSE, IF THEY ALREADY HAVE A LONG THICK TAIL, THEN EVERY 3 TO 4 WEEKS, IF THEY HAVE NO TAIL LIKE MY ROAN AND I WANT IT TO GROW, THEN ONCE EVERY WEEK I WILL ADD MORE MTG AND REWRAP IT.[/quote]
your horses are stalled? i thought you couldnt wrap and leave them if stalled? please educate me on this-soooo wish i could post the pics of Sonnys tail for the show-Donna did an English 1/2 braid with a scoopy tied up bow/loop thing-took forever. we did it right before the show as she said he'd rub if off overnight?
Thunder is stalled from about 4pm-8am as long as the weather is nice....if it's crappy outside he stays in his stall and only gets turned out for a few in the arena or if i come visit and take him out, but he's got a run in his stall, so he can go outside too.
you can wrap/bag a tail in a stall IF there is nothing to catch the tail on. My stalls are free of any protruding objects and if she would find something to catch it on, then it is so loosely braided it will fall right out. The only thing any of mine could ever catch it on would be the water bucket, and since I have mine fairly low to the ground, that would take some talent.
The MTG is applied once a week and left in. I try to keep mine locked up only at night or in nasty weather, I have a few that would rather stay inside than go out into the cold wind right now, but I make them go out there anyway. We have to many coyotes, bears, and supposedly a panther in this area for them to be outside at night as they are minis. The only one I dare turn out at night is the mustang.
I don't wash the MTG out and if I use a conditioner, it's the spray, leave in kind.
I will re-do this about once a month, though it depends on what it looks like. I believe the longest I've left Vega's in was almost 2 months.
My guys are out during the day and inside at night (because it's cold) There is really nothing they can get it caught on.
I also use anywhere from half to a whole roll of vet wrap (depending on the thickness and length of the tail, or how much vet wrap I have left on the roll)
You can also use the vet wrap in the spring/summer, but just make sure you add some string at the bottom of it so they can use that as a tail.
Here is Vega's tail with the string attached. (this was taken in the March or April of 08)
This is her tail in June 08
Just for reference, this was her tail in Sept of 07
I don't think I ever managed to brush the tail on my horse when I had him. It was very tangled and really thick with coarse hair. I cut it so it ended around 6 inches before hitting the ground but that was it.
A friend of mine brushed her horses tail a lot and it just got thinner and thinner so she ended up stopping.
Ok I managed to dig up a photo. It's not my horse but my uncle's horse but they had pretty much identical tails that were kept the same way (i.e nothing much done to them)
]I don't have aproblem with thunder's tail growing....i actually had to trim it today lol.. but I have a problem with it getting nasty! Here's my first attempt at wrapping it...
My horses tails are usually 90% of the time in a tail bag , taken down every week and I pick it out with my hands and put more detangler in it and then some Mtg and up it goes again.
I give my geldings tail a quick once-over when I groom him before riding. I also check for any tangles/knots/debris that may be caught in there. I ALWAYS add a bit of Cowboy Magic and always brush out his mane.
I usually do a full half an hour to hour tail grooming every now and then after baths in the summer and only occasionally in the winter. Before shows it would also be fully brushed as well ^^
my mares tail gets washed once a month and it is maintained in a braid in a tailbag. i bursh her tail out every 2 days. i take her tail out or the braid when i excersise her. when it is braided i also keep leave in conditioner on it. by keeping her tail like this i have no knots!!!! all i have to do is simply brush; her tail is really healthy and has grown thus far.....
My show horses' tails stay up in bags, so they get brushed and sprayed liberally with Healthy Hair Care (or pink stuff, as I call it) about every 2-3 weeks.
The broodmares get their's brushed whenever I feel like it/when I remember. :lol:
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