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Re: [RC] de- "mudding" horses - Barbara McCraryI will make no attempt to clean up our horses yet. Their coats are too thick and the mud is too well entrenched. In March, they will start to shed and then I'll be able to do something with their grooming. It's too chilly, even here on central coast CA, to bathe them anywhere but below the knees, and then I use warm water. I don't recall a colder winter here in 57 years...consistently cold, day after day. Of course that's CA cold, not Montana cold. :-))We rode on one of the only non-rainy days last weekend and we just took off the surface slabs of mud. Their coats were dirty underneath and nothing happened to them because of that. However, they didn't sweat, so we didn't have a lot of mud created by sweat and dust. In summer, were there to be sweat and dust creating mud, we give warm baths after a ride. Of course, then they go out and roll in the dust and there we are with dirty horses again. I think grey horses LIKE being camouflaged with dirt. It must be an instinct of some sort, rather like a Border Collie rolling in cow patties so he smells like a cow. Barbara ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathy Klenk" <kramspott@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "RIDECAMP" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 3:17 AM Subject: [RC] de- "mudding" horses Sorry if this has been discussed recently. I know folks talked about different grooming vacuums for their horses and it sounded like a plain old shop vac was what folks used. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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