Tails take for ever to grow back in properaly. I've been waiting 4 years for the cut portion of my horse's to grow in and it wasnt even cut that badly. Now it is is finaly grown back in and touching the ground. So you pretty much have a long road ahead of you. I would recommend not putting anything in your horse's tail for a while and seeing what that does. Sometimes their tails just grow better when left alone... Its worth and shot. The MTG obviously isnt working and you wont loose anything if you let it go natural for a couple of weeks. Personally I dont use MTG because one it smells and two it gave my horse terrible dandruff. Have you checked to see if someone isn't nibbling on her tail. Babies do that sometimes. A good friend of mind put MTG in her horse's tail and her filly ate it right up. That could be happening and you might want to look into it.
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It was over a year ago that my mare, Ricci, ripped off the black part of her tail, and I mean ripped it out from the roots. For the last six months or so, I've been using MTG on her tail, as well as corn oil in her grain. So in these, 17 months, her tail really hasn't grown much.
This is the best picture I have of her tail, taken within the last few weeks. The black is what has grown, she hardly ripped any white out, I just cut the white part to match. The black part is approximately 6 yo 8 inches long.
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Now I'm concerned, because Gracie was born around the same time Ricci ripped her beautiful tail off, and Gracie's tail is more than twice as long as Ricci's. I don't have any good pictures that show Gracie's tail, but you can kind of see it here, where it ends at her hocks, and it was taken over a month ago. I just washed and conditioned her tail today, and it is now half way to her fetlock.
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So why isn't Ricci's tail growing? What else can I be doing for it? She gets fed alfalfa hay, timothy pellets, beet pulp, along with garlic powder and corn oil, she has access to a trace mineral block. She gets MTG put on it once a week, and when I brush her tail, none of her hairs break off. It never even gets tangled in the pasture. The hair that has grown is thick and shiiny and obviously very healthy. How long does it take for a tail to grow to it's full length? I just want my mare to have her long, thick, beautiful tail back. =[
This is the best picture I have of her tail, taken within the last few weeks. The black is what has grown, she hardly ripped any white out, I just cut the white part to match. The black part is approximately 6 yo 8 inches long.
Now I'm concerned, because Gracie was born around the same time Ricci ripped her beautiful tail off, and Gracie's tail is more than twice as long as Ricci's. I don't have any good pictures that show Gracie's tail, but you can kind of see it here, where it ends at her hocks, and it was taken over a month ago. I just washed and conditioned her tail today, and it is now half way to her fetlock.
So why isn't Ricci's tail growing? What else can I be doing for it? She gets fed alfalfa hay, timothy pellets, beet pulp, along with garlic powder and corn oil, she has access to a trace mineral block. She gets MTG put on it once a week, and when I brush her tail, none of her hairs break off. It never even gets tangled in the pasture. The hair that has grown is thick and shiiny and obviously very healthy. How long does it take for a tail to grow to it's full length? I just want my mare to have her long, thick, beautiful tail back. =[
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My husband has been diligent trying to get 'Fras's tail to grow longer. He's never used a bag but he regularly rubs MTG into the tail dock and bone area, then uses hair oil on the ends to keep them from breaking off.
As everyone said, it takes awhile for the tail to grow out. With care and good grooming it makes it seem to go a little faster.
Fras' tail now-
As everyone said, it takes awhile for the tail to grow out. With care and good grooming it makes it seem to go a little faster.
Fras' tail now-
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Okay, at least I'm not the only one who's had to wait ages to let it grow back. I'm kind of off and on about the MTG, maybe I'll stop again. Her tail usually is bagged, I let it out for a week or so every month, but that's mostly because I don't like how icky her butt gets from her rubbing her MTG-ed tail all over it, lol. No, there is no one chewing on her tail. THAT I would definitely notice. And trust me, my mare is very capable of growing a thick and luxurious tail. It's why I'm so desperate for it to grow back!
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