How Often Should You Groom Your Horse For A Shiny Coat?

How Often Should You Groom Your Horse For A Shiny Coat?

We answer how often should you groom your horse for a shiny coat, plus more horse coat care questions. Find out how why your horse loves to roll after you’ve spent hours scrubbing them, how bathing could affect their skin health and all about best practice for a shiny coat!

How Often Should I Groom My Horse For A Shiny Coat?

Grooming should be completed as part of your horse’s routine care. Grooming boast benefits such as health monitoring, health maintenance, as well as building the relationship between you and your horse. But it is also key in developing and maintaining a shine to the coat!

In a herd environment, horses will groom each other daily. As owners, we can replicate this through using the brushes in our grooming kits.

As long as our horse enjoys it, a quick, daily grooming session will do no harm to their skin or coat health and will aid in improving shine and condition. Grooming aids blood flow to the skin, increasing nutrient transportation to the large organ and hair follicles which results in healthy skin and a shiny coat.

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However, you must consider your horse’s lifestyle and the brushes you are using on! When horses are living outdoors, we want to reserve some of their natural oils to waterproof and provide nourishment for the skin and coat. Using a stiffer brush, such as a dandy brush is therefore recommended, to reduce removal of these vital oils.

How Often Should I Bathe My Horse?

Unlike grooming, bathing horse’s should not be completed regularly as shampoos will completed dissolve and remove any natural oils on the skin.

Shampooing should be done as necessary for the best results, as well as your horse’s skin and coat health. Necessary occasions to use shampoo may be just before a show or when treating a medical condition. Otherwise, try to stick to warm water to dissolve stains and dirt on the coat. Keep stains at bay by using a shine spray.

Shampooing manes, tails and legs can be completed more often to remove unwanted stains as the skin in these areas often goes untouched by the shampoo and water or are areas of low irritation.

Why Does My Horse Roll After Grooming Or A Bath?

Horse like to take care of their own skin, and rolling is a way of them completing this self-care. Rolling helps to remove hair, exfoliate the skin and scratch hard to reach spots.

Through the action of a grooming session or bath, your horse may be encouraged or stimulated to roll by you loosening dead hair and skin on their coat.

Is There A ‘Quick-Fix’ To A Shiny Coat?

Using shine sprays is a great way to get a shiny coat, quick! They help dust and grease to slip away from the hairs and condition for the strands to become supple and soft.

However, apart from shine sprays there is no ‘quick-fix’ to ensuring your horse has a shiny coat. A combination of grooming and nutrition is needed for the ultimate, natural shine which may take weeks to come through!

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