While I'm sure WD-40 would work, I wouldn't
like the smell and the fact that it is a petroleum distillate. I use Show
Sheen...spray it on the knots, wait about 5 minutes for penetration into the
mane, then take a hoof pick and pick out the strands of hair, a few at a
time. Voila! Untangled mane and silky to boot. I have
incredible patience for jobs like this. I imagine this would work as
well as WD-40 without the greasiness and smell.
I braid all of mine, all the time. Otherwise, I end up spending
hours trying to keep all those manes untangled. Dreadlocks have
nothing on the knots & tangles my gang manages to get their manes
in.
Rae
Jody Rogers-Buttram <dragnin100@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Well, I am way too lazy to braid....so I pull or in some cases too
lazy to pull....just wack it off. Looks like crap for about 2
months....but then looks right. I don't mean that I clip it off,
just about 3 inches. Right now Aries looks like an old Roman war
horse, with the mane that sticks straight up. All I need is
the sword !!! Joni won't let me near her horses...they have to
have an Arab mane she thinks.
Jody
RDCARRIE@xxxxxxx wrote:
I never braid on training rides, and I live in SE
Texas (think: sauna). I figure they can do conditioning rides
without braids and adapt to any excess heat that generates. Then
at rides I braid. Although, my current horse has kind of a sparse,
shortish mane. :( Poor guy is mane challenged.
