After Ride Coat rinse

[BroncoMo]

I’ve wanted to try one of these doohickies for a while and shall go add to my amazon cart now. But first, a question. Do you put the vinegar in the spray container? I think that would work well to do a mix similar to a sponge and bucket.

Two things I hate: the smell of vinegar (so putting my hand in a bucket of it is a hard no), and sponge bathing horses (water running down my arm pit). So the idea of a water vinegar mix running down my arm pit, and subsequently my torso, makes me shudder.

If the vinegar in the spray container concept works, I think maybe I could put a drop or two of an essential oil or other good smelling horse product to cut the nasty smell of vinegar.

[JBCool]

I hate both those things, too. I guess part of my start to this thread was to see if there was an idea other than vinegar or Vetrolin, which both mess with my sinuses & asthma.

[theresak]

I rinse the sweat off with the container empty, then add the vinegar to the container and do the vinegar rinse and done. It works really well.

[Calhoun]

In the summer months I use use Heathly HairCare Marigold sunscreen a few times a week after hosing off. Love the smell and it makes the coast shiny and soft.

[pn]

Love the vetrolin Liniment as well. We cant get it in canada anymore so i frequently get friends and relatives to bring it home for me.

[tabula_rashah]

Mostly just water, occasionally I will add some ACV but I don’t know if that would do anything to coat color or not. I find that I get more sweat grime off by hosing, going over them with a massage curry and then hosing again. But of course they go roll in whatever they can coat themselves in the minute they are turned back out. Hmmm maybe having a nice caking of dirt helps prevent sun bleaching and they’ve just been trying to help me out all along

[Texarkana]

Water, or water/vetroline, or water/vinegar.

Racehorses at the track get washed with soap just about every day of their lives and have some of the nicest coats you’ve ever seen. But they also aren’t out in the sun or getting doused in tons of fly spray, etc.

[Pippigirl]

Wondering about an update. Have you had the chance to try out that ‘doohickey’ for hosing down? Did you put straight vinegar in the spray container part?

[BroncoMo]

I haven’t tried it yet. It’s just now warm enough to give the first couple baths this week so they needed a deep soapy scrubbing. Going forward, I’ll give it a try and update.

[Montanas_Girl]

I hose with plain water after rides and any afternoon/evening at feeding time that it is hot enough for them to sweat. Removing salt from the hair frequently is a big part of reducing bleaching.

I use the black label Ultrashield fly spray, which contains a sunscreen. How much that really helps, I can’t say, but I figure it can’t work.

Feeding chelated copper, zinc, and manganese is much more beneficial than just adding more of any one or a combination of those minerals from other sources. Increasing the amount of a mineral in the diet does nothing if there are antagonistic minerals (like iron and sulfur) in the diet that are competing for transport sites in the small intestinal lining.

[Fruitarider]

My favorite rinse is Absorbine’s Cooldown Herbal After Workout Rinse.

[GraceLikeRain]

@Texarkana

Racehorses at the track get washed with soap just about every day of their lives and have some of the nicest coats you’ve ever seen.

So true. Many of the coats I see straight off the track are absolutely glowing. Clearly shampooing regularly isn’t ruining them.

[SonnysMom]

My farrier prefers if I don’t bathe, and don’t hose unless absolutely necessary. He prefers I apply Farrier Barrier daily (or at least when I ride/groom) and right before I sponge them off or give a bath.
My horse is an appendix QH but has crappy feet common in his TB side. I give my horse baths as little as possible. I love Vetrolin in my water when he is particularly sweaty. I think it cuts the sweat better than straight water. Bonus, I love how it smells.

[Buster]

That’s interesting. I hose mine off and then add conditioner to mane and tail when it’s wet and leave in.

[atr]

We have a spray that we use year round on the sweaty parts like the girth and under the saddle pad, when we cant/dont want to bathe: 1 pint of rubbing alcohol, 1 pint of witch hazel, 2 tbs of baby oil. Shake up in a spray bottle. Spray on and rub in, leave to dry and brush out. Cuts through the gunk and dries fast.

[fordtraktor]

I try to remember to use a pine tar based hoof oil before rinsing, but rinse my black bay every time it is warm enough. Though this year I am leaving the necks off his fly sheet…the rubbed out mane looks worse than the fading. Sigh…it is always something!

[Go_Fish]

Rinse with warm water by hose, then fill a large bucket with a bottle of white vinegar mixed with water, then sponge and scrape. My solution for over 60 years. Helps repel flies, too.

[ndirish07]

I rinse with water and then add two glugs of ACV to a bucket, sponge that on, and scrape off excess. 2 glugs is the perfect scientific amount.

I also add cheap sunscreen-- the more liquid like the better-- into my fly spray. The fancy stuff clogs the sprayer. I had a belgian paint cross who had pink skin in places and his little pink parts would burn in the summer. The sunscreen definitely helped. Even though I lost that guy years ago, I still add the sunscreen. I also add either Skin so Soft to help the fly spray stick better since I don’t use an oil based one, or mix in a little yellow bottle pyrhana. If I’m doing pyrhana then I add in lemongrass extract because I can’t stand the smell. I want my horses smelling like little old ladies or lemons.