tail with stains
Last post 11-15-2011 9:50 PM by Meg. 14 replies.
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10-02-2011 4:31 PM
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I've heard that baking soda mixed with water works well. I'm not really sure how you would apply it though. Hopefully someone else can suggest something.
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BoyleHeightsKid
  - Joined on 01-03-2006
- Shanksville, PA
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Wisk is a good one and believe it or not betadine works great on white socks and tails!
A good rider rides transition to transition, a great rider rides half-halt to half-halt!
~Robert Dover
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48northfarm
  - Joined on 03-01-2009
- Port Townsend, WA
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As a grey owner--I've got 2--I have an arsenal of whitening shampoos. I first started with Quik Silver, but that needs to be done several times and left on for the max. Plus it dries, as does any blue solution. If you're going blue, condition, condition, condition.
I just got some Lucky Braids Whitener and Dry Wash Shampoo this summer: http://www.SmartPakEquine.com/lucky-braids-whitener-and-dry-wash-spray-9427p.aspx?cm_vc=Search. It's Horse Journal's "Best For Whites and Greys", and can be sprayed on and left without ruining the hair. I tried it on Juno, dry, and got good results. I haven't tried it wet, yet, but I suspect it will be even better that way. Since you can leave it on, you can use every couple of weeks to keep the tail white, and it whitens the tail more ever time you put it on. Might be worth buying a bottle.
For tail bags, the best are the braid-in style. You couldn't even pay me enough to use any other kind. They hold so much better, and if you're going to use one all winter they are the only solution. You can get them all over the place. Clean her tail the best you can before you bag it, and by the end of the winter you'll have a good 6" more tail when you let it out.
Megan
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48northfarm
- Joined on 03-01-2009
- Port Townsend, WA
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Solaris-- With mares the urine stains are never confined to the bottom. The amount of hair you'd need to cut off would take a year to grow back, and you still wouldn't get all of the stain. You seem to favor chestnut geldings--where you can get away with cutting the stains off--but grey mare owners have to deal with the stains.
Megan
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"The horse you get off is not the horse you got on. It is your job as a rider to ensure that as often as possible, the change is for the better."
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well since the OP said the stains are at the bottom of the tail cutting off a few inches won't be a big deal. Besides if she's going to keep it bagged it would be better to lop off about 6 inches now anyway.
I also have horses with white tails and my mare has no problems keeping her tail out of the urine stream. But long tails drag the ground and bang around on the legs when they are muddy and get stained. Fact of life. If the horse isn't being shown it doesn't matter really.
 If at first you don't succeed, do it the way your wife told you to. (author unknown)
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spragueme
  - Joined on 08-03-2005
- Western NY
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Wash it out with whatever you have on hand and condition it well. Make sure its completely dry before you put it away. I agree with Solo, just chop off the stained and prob damanged end, and start from scratch. I don't do tail bags, I just braid and wrap up my tails in the winter to keep the ice balls out of them. And the mud too. Come spring time, the hair will have grown back and you will have a nice tail to show off.
 If you don't want to stand behind our soldiers who are in danger zones, please stand in front of one. If you really open your ears and eyes, you will see that there is alot of great advice given on here. You just have to see it and hear it without closing off your mind. VanHalen 26 yr QH Stallion R.I.P. 4/11/82 - 5/8/08 24 wonderful years together. Scout 25-28 yr Paint/Draft Cross Gelding Glistening 13 yr Arab/Saddlebred Mare
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ShireHorse
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 FocusCalmPatience:we used Wisk on Misty's Twilight when they came to photograph her for her Breyer model.
do you mean the ACTUAL Misty's Twilight?
"We were ninety-nine percent trouble and one percent innocent...What could we say? We were adventurers!" -The I Can! Cowgirls
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ShireHorse
- Joined on 05-17-2011
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That's really cool. I read a book on her ever so long ago, and though I don't remember it too well I definitly remember the picture of her on the front. I think we got rid of the book but I'm not sure. That's really neat though that you got to be there for her photo shoot with the Breyer horse company!
"We were ninety-nine percent trouble and one percent innocent...What could we say? We were adventurers!" -The I Can! Cowgirls
"I'm not a horse trainer, I'm a horseman. What’s the difference? A horse trainer trains horses; a horseman trains himself." – Chris Cox
"How do you gain your horse's respect? By moving his feet forwards, backwards, left and right and always rewarding the slightest try." -Clinton Anderson
“It’s the way you ride the trail that counts.” -Roy Rodgers
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers
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SpottedPony_horse
 - Joined on 08-03-2005
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Margarete Henry, the author of the other Misty books, did one on Misty's Twilight. This was, I believe one of her last books. According to the book, she was very versitial. She could jump, cut cattle and did dressage. I believe they started her out as a cutting horse and she did very well, but when her trainer moved to a different circuit, the judges claimed that they didn't know what to do with her! How about judging her on her ability to cut cattle? They said she looked more like a parade horse then a cutting horse. Then as she showed jumping ability, they decided to try the hunter classes. The trainer they hired took one look at her and refused because she was a pinto and he thought he would be made fun of and be thought of as a clown. The owner decided to try lower level eventing but that ended when Misty's Twilight developed a problem that required her to stop jumping, So then she went on to dressage.
I wonder to what level she got to and is she still showing? Is she still alive? Did she have any foals?
Spotted Pony
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FYI - http://www.mistysheaven.com/twilight.html Says she's retired. There's a link to her pedigree on AllBreed (That says one of her foals wass sired by Art Deco!) And the pic belwo shows her doing passage - at what looks like a show, so she made it beyond 2nd level, lol. What little is available (for free on Google books) of the "mostly true" MH Henry book makes it sound like they were aiming for GP.
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Meg
  - Joined on 08-04-2005
- Oak Harbor Wa
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I completly forgot about this thread. the bottom foot or more in stained. Her tail is very long it was dragging when she came to me and i had accually cut 5 or 6 inchs off. Her owner expressed that they want her tail to be long so imfaced with either leave it or try and clean it out. She went home for now though since im prego and got to be too much work for me so next year when she comes back out to the barn Ill try the different siggestions. Thank you
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