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Post by salexis on May 10, 2008 18:00:47 GMT
Hi, thought this thread might be best in showing as its purerly an aesthetic question!
How do I encourage Moomin's mane to lie the correct side?
When pulling it do I comb it over the the right side then pull it? (I use a solo comb as she hates it being pulled).
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Post by kateflashy on May 10, 2008 18:48:52 GMT
hangind down plaits train the mane a bit i always put the mane on the right side before pulling
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Post by maximum on May 11, 2008 8:31:42 GMT
as kate says plait it over but dont roll the plaits but it will eventually go back if you dont keep doing it! learn to love the mane on the wrong side!! max is a half and half!
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Post by fleabitten on May 11, 2008 13:43:09 GMT
ha ha so is princess, but i dont think it matters if she has mane on both sides as that is correct for her breed?? correct me if im wrong??
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Post by Maes Seren on May 11, 2008 15:55:02 GMT
Ive heard that mane lying on the wrong side can indicate a problem in that area? (Which makes sense as Gem has a sore poll, and her mane lies on the wrong side there, but no where else)
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Post by Blonde Donkey on May 11, 2008 18:08:42 GMT
savvy's just flops to whichever side the winds blowing at the time
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Post by brigadier on May 12, 2008 14:38:49 GMT
HI Use one of these to pull the mane- its completely painless and really thins it out- then use a solo comb to take the ends off to even it up. to use just brush the mane on the wrong side then run this over it a few times, brush to the correct side and even up with solo comb. It pulls tails too and the horses dont feel a thing! Also does not grwo back bushy. brig www.clippersharp.com/smart_grooming/smart_manes |
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Post by kateflashy on May 12, 2008 15:38:40 GMT
i use av old clipper blade to thin manes just comb it thru and it does the job
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Post by racaille on May 12, 2008 17:05:49 GMT
I find it incomprehensible that there should be a 'right' and 'wrong' side. Here we say that the horse's mane will fall to its 'feebler' side, eg Paco is right-handed (he finds working on the left rein more difficult that the right) so his mane falls to the left, Racaille is left-hoofed so his mane falls to the right. It is infallible.
But we don't show so it doesn't matter. Just as well, as nothing would convince Paco's long Spanish mane to fall to the right. ;D
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Post by rainbow on May 13, 2008 12:09:18 GMT
Rainbows falls mainly to the right but the odd bit goes to the left. i put it to the right then she shakes and it goes back  Like the other day palited her mane up in a running plait, did it really nice, she shook and it all cam out. silly mare  |
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Post by abi on May 19, 2008 16:14:14 GMT
should be on the right, but theres theres not a lot of point in the whole one sided thing. to get it that side, wet the mane and plait it in fairly tight, long plaits, and put a full neck rug on if you can to help squish them down! might help to bath/ shampoo it on that side on a warm day too  xx |
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Post by kateflashy on May 19, 2008 18:55:24 GMT
rockets is like a mohican at the moment last autumn he rolled in a sticky bud bush and had millions of them stuck in his mane they were impossible to get out so i hogged him now its grown back but standing upright
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Post by spider on May 24, 2008 0:18:18 GMT
LOL.. years ago, when I was a wee lass... I had a pone, who's mane was really wild  .. he was then clipped and hogged. when his mane grew.. it was like a yard brush  .. so it was pulled it a inch of his life and when it was long enough..... I used.......... spounge rollers it lay it to the correct side! he slept and worked in rollers ;D.. He was known as Hilda! (as in ogden) ;D but it worked. He never had a wild mane ever again  |
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Post by abi on May 24, 2008 8:43:10 GMT
WOW. im going to put rollers in sox's mane, haha!
after a week it all flopped up again (its been vertical since i pulled it, its still about 6imches long and quite thick!)
apparently you have to dampen it, plait it to one side, leave it in for 3 days, leave it out a day then plait it over again! x
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Post by popsicle on May 24, 2008 21:49:43 GMT
Poppy's is sticking up like a loo brush since I pulled it to around 4 inches, but can't be *rsed to keep plaiting it and wetting it to keep it over to the right. What a Kerfuffle!!
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for so much hard work we thank ye!!
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.. he was then clipped and hogged. when his mane grew.. it was like a yard brush 
.. so it was pulled it a inch of his life and when it was long enough..... I used.......... spounge rollers it lay it to the correct side!
