My horses HATE having their ears clipped.

[Palm_Beach]

@Brown Derby

NOT directed at you OP–Some people create this issue by spraying horses in the ears while bathing. Always use a sponge. Note that babies don’t mind at all when their ears brush up against mama while nursing. Ear-handling evasion is often man-made garbage.

I spray heads before teaching them to have their ears clipped. I don’t spray inside the ears, the horses drop their heads down low and I spray behind the ears (bridle path), browband area and back base of ears, and down the cheeks, around the mouth and up under the jaw and cheekbones. Once they are good with getting their heads sprayed they adapt to the clippers like nothing. It’s simply a training process just like everything else. You just need to be careful you don’t spray inside the ears.

[seabreeze]

Ditto everyone else. I stopped doing it several years ago. I’ll neaten up the outside, trim the bridle path and trim up legs and fetlocks, but that’s it. I don’t touch the whiskers at all anymore.