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My 2 are fluffy all year round, and it doesn’t even get that cold here!
They are fed right and are on a conditioning, joint and ulcer supplement.
How can I help 'slick' them up? Any tricks anyone would like to share is welcomed!!
Also, I am thinking about trimming them up some, but I don’t want to go all the way down, any recommendations on size of blade to use?
Thank you!
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Location: Minnesota | I use Espana SILK Protein Spray on all three of my horses and it keeps their coats looking amazing. It smells great on top of it. Ill see if I can get some pictures to load. |
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Location: South TEXAS | my 2 main horses have been under lights since October and keep a blanket or sheet on depending on the temps. but it is over 70 a good bit here so that helps.
I want to body clip my mini pretty bad cause she is very wooly and sweats on the warm days |
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Location: Minnesota | Ctrygirl14 - 2014-01-23 1:36 PM I use Espana SILK Protein Spray on all three of my horses and it keeps their coats looking amazing. It smells great on top of it. Ill see if I can get some pictures to load.
Here are my three. I use that product daily and I think it really makes their coats shine.
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Location: East Tennessee but who knows?! | Cup per day of ground flax seed. Best coat supplement there is, IMO. Helps them shed out quick and puts a lot of oils in their coat. Nylon or lycra sheets will polish one up without a lot of elbow grease. Brushing every day helps some but the flax does a lot on its own.
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| I don't know how slick you are talking about but the only way to keep them "show horse" slick in the winter is keeping them under the right kind of lights for the right amount of hours per day and keeping them pretty warm. I work for a hunter under saddle show barn so I know all about it. They keep the lights on a timer 6am to 10pm no matter what. And it is an insulated barn with each horse having a sheet and thick winter blanket on. This is in north texas so it is not extreme cold here. |
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| We feed 1/2 cup/day of milled flax and our horses are always super shiney. We keep them blanketed in the winter to prevent them from hairing up too much and I think it helps a little, but they dont wear blankets in the summer unless the bugs are really bad, and they're still shiney so I give all the credit to the milled flax! |
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Location: Deep South | A full body slinky and a medium-heavy weight turnout blanket. That's it on my boy and he's tight haired, and show pretty right now. The only time the blanket comes off is when it's warm enough that he would sweat if I left it on. We don't have extreme cold at all here, but if it drops below 25 at night or is supposed to rain and immediately drop to low temps I'll shut him up in the barn. Other than that he's on full turnout. |
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Location: Great NW | If your horses are "fluffy" year round you need to take another look at their diet. They are missing most likely missing something. |
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Location: Wasagaming, Manitoba, Canada | I keep my horse blanketed (he wears a slinky too) and he comes into the barn at night.
He gets 1lb of rolled oats with molasses a day and good quality hay. Nothing too exciting 
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| Worms can cause the coat to look bad also. You could have the vet run a fecal to see if that is the case.
If not, lots of currying, the rubber ones work good. |
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Location: The Great Northwest | speedjunkie - 2014-01-24 2:40 PM If your horses are "fluffy" year round you need to take another look at their diet. They are missing most likely missing something.
I would do a complete blood work up. It would help in what to feed and any organ problem would show. |
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Location: The Great Northwest | Tys-ol-lady - 2014-01-24 12:02 PM We feed 1/2 cup/day of milled flax and our horses are always super shiney. We keep them blanketed in the winter to prevent them from hairing up too much and I think it helps a little, but they dont wear blankets in the summer unless the bugs are really bad, and they're still shiney so I give all the credit to the milled flax!
Flax NutraFlax from Horse Tech great feed. It does so much more than help with the skin and hair. |
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The Advice Guru
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| Pssm can have abnormal hair coats |
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| quikchik - 2014-01-23 7:15 PM
Worms can cause the coat to look bad also. You could have the vet run a fecal to see if that is the case.
If not, lots of currying, the rubber ones work good.
I actually just had this done that too long ago. Turns out they had Strongyles and were treated for them. I saw a huge improvement in their overall health/look. Everything I had been putting into them wasn’t doing a darn thing before, now they look 10 x's better...I just can’t get them to slick up. |
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| skye - 2014-01-23 8:05 PM
speedjunkie - 2014-01-24 2:40 PM If your horses are "fluffy" year round you need to take another look at their diet. They are missing most likely missing something.
I would do a complete blood work up. It would help in what to feed and any organ problem would show.
We did fecal as well as blood work, everything else way normal besided the worms which we treated. |
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| Thank you all for your thoughts! Going to add some flax to their diet and go another round with Pancur PowerPac just in case.
Thanks!! xx |
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Location: Where I am happiest | speedjunkie - 2014-01-23 5:40 PM If your horses are "fluffy" year round you need to take another look at their diet. They are missing most likely missing something.
Yep!!
Are you feeding a good mineral? |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | This is a bad time of the year trying to slick one up, why dont you wait untill spring befor trying to take their warm coat off? And Healthy Coat is a great supplement that I use.  |
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| I suggest you try Equipride! |
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