While this isn't funny, it is --- only because, when I was kid and my horses were on 98 acres, you wouldn't believe the burrs they'd come in with every night. We didn't have a bushhog, unless the cows counted for anythig:shock:
When my horses got matted head-to-tail like the pictures in the link (they could come in nearly every night in the summer looking like that), it was stay at the barn pick that garbage out, literally hair-by-hair.
Even though mom wasn't really a horse person, her philosophy on roaching was "---you will NOT roach their manes, young lady, just to take the easy way out--" easy for her to say - lollol
But I got really good at separating hairs from cockle burrs --- it's an ugly job but, if you want to preserve that very long mane, it's your only choice:-(
When my horses got matted head-to-tail like the pictures in the link (they could come in nearly every night in the summer looking like that), it was stay at the barn pick that garbage out, literally hair-by-hair.
Even though mom wasn't really a horse person, her philosophy on roaching was "---you will NOT roach their manes, young lady, just to take the easy way out--" easy for her to say - lollol
But I got really good at separating hairs from cockle burrs --- it's an ugly job but, if you want to preserve that very long mane, it's your only choice:-(
