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Post by Neeners on Mar 5, 2003 8:15:08 GMT -5
I see them in all the catalogues, what is their purpose? lol
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Post by ZenRider on Mar 5, 2003 8:24:33 GMT -5
To keep the horse clean for show. Used a lot by halter people, but other show people use them too. Me, I have a brush.  Oh, I think Johnie used one on Forest when his face was shaved for his surgery. |
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Post by RavensMom on Mar 5, 2003 8:25:38 GMT -5
Well, let's see, which ones are you talking about? Since I've had several near-misses with the QH world, we have a Jammies tail-bag, mane-tamer and shoulder protector for under a blanket. Is it the mane-tamer you're talking about? I think since they don't braid, they use them to flatten their manes??? I don't know, we use it on a chronic braid-rubber so they don't get as fuzzy and to keep the hay chafe out of them. The same horse (immensely high-maintenance) also wears not one, but two tail-bags (the Jammies being the underneath one). Raven, who has mouse-fur instead of horsehair on her bod, wears her Jammies under her blanket because no matter how they're made, blankets rub her shoulders bare.
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Post by Neeners on Mar 5, 2003 8:26:16 GMT -5
So its just a clean thing .... lot of money just to keep their head/neck clean... and i bet my guys would have that ripped to shreds after a day lol
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Post by RavensMom on Mar 5, 2003 8:28:06 GMT -5
Yup, they rip reeeaaally easily, but they're cool and stretchy in all directions.
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Post by Neeners on Mar 5, 2003 8:29:30 GMT -5
I have the shoulder guard for Cherokee, not matter what blanket i bought him (3-4 blankets so far) he got shoulder rubs. Seems to have stopped the damage.. The ones im talking about go from the shoulder to neck and on their face ..The mane tamer i can see the use for.. Infact Rhea may need that one when i cut off all her mane lol she has some WICKED cowlicks!
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Post by RavensMom on Mar 5, 2003 8:35:35 GMT -5
QH people think of everything. Of course, they also tie them in their stalls so they don't rip their clothes... OK, I'm not being fair and generalizing. Check out those colors, man! Just like their showshirts, chaps, etc. All we get is black, khaki, navy, white... Give us a pastel shirt with stripes and a monogram and we're stepping out, whew BOY!!!
All of my forays into the QH world for equipment and my SMBII boots, Jammies, etc. are all BLACK!!!! What a waste when you can get tie-dyed-paisley-leopard in neon colors... ;D
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Post by Smay on Mar 5, 2003 8:56:24 GMT -5
slicking the horse down for show, polishing the hair coat, taming the mane, and keeping the horse clean after you've spent HOURS washing, bleaching, polishing, trimming and spot cleaning a WHITE HORSE! hee hee.... For show horses, they primarily use them in the stall to keep the dust off their ultra-clean coats.... I bought the CUTEST IN THE WORLD little black slinky for Twister the pony, since he could NOT keep himself clean and wanted to lay down in the wet spots, no matter HOW clean we kept his stall. It helped keep his LONG silver mane clean and his tail bag kept that clean...but of course they aren't waterproof and the he could still get his side stained by laying down in the pee spot. Silly rascal!
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Post by ZenRider on Mar 5, 2003 13:57:50 GMT -5
Yup forgot the keeping braids or bands thing. Hmmm, SMay, you may have a point in the keeping a white horse clean thing. Though somehow I think Zen would find ways to sabotage me there too.  |
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Post by Lisann on Mar 6, 2003 12:26:05 GMT -5
I have one of the ones that covers the shoulders and face. I don't like it. It's a cotton/lycra one, and it rubs and doesn't fit right. I'd like to try the lycra ones, but....$$$  |
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Post by niaru on Mar 6, 2003 17:30:18 GMT -5
When I first came to the US I ended up riding at a Morgan show barn. The horses all had weird things on them in their stalls (tail wraps, neck wraps etc) and weird tack. The German girl who was working there as barn manager, groom, and rider/trainer, told me they also used the lycra neck wraps as sweats to make the horses' necks thinner...  Was she pulling my leg?! At the time it didn't surprise me since everything in that barn was pretty outlandish to me ;D. |
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Post by ClaireLV on Mar 7, 2003 18:32:26 GMT -5
Neeners, are you going to make some?? I want to get one for Jasper but they are soooo expensive. He has a mane that refuses to lie flat!
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Post by Lynne on Mar 7, 2003 19:04:44 GMT -5
Who knows what they're REALLY for! just to buy and have fun buying? BUT.....I've always thought someone should make them in hunter orange! Seriously, then if you live in podunk places like Boondocks Kentucky you could put the sleazy on the horses and maybe the red-neck drunks with guns wouldn't shoot them during hunting season....? Just an idea...
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Post by Neeners on Mar 7, 2003 19:13:22 GMT -5
Ive thought about making them.. but fleece is hard enough to work with being that it shifts and moves under the needle, i cant even imagine what lycra would be like lol... but......i could always give it a go |
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Post by Smay on Mar 7, 2003 21:43:30 GMT -5
You might be able to produce these things using lycra blends or whatever...you know Lycra is SUPER expensive material for some reason.... that may be why these things are SOOOOOo expensive. I could kick myself because last year, I saw the extended hood type ones... the ones that zip all the way from their under jaw, down to their chest, and then cover their shoulders and velcro around their girth.... It's pretty big. WELL, I saw them for $19.95!!!!!! Now you NEVER see those for that price. they are usually $60! Anyhow I bought a "med" - the smallest they had - for Twister to help keep him clean during his little "show season" we had there in August... It is VERY NICE and I should have bought like TEN of them! Twister needs a "small" or a "Pony" or whatever...the medium was too big in the face...I had to take a hair scrunchie, and PULL the face part up between his ears and tie it up a little so that the EYE holes wouldn't slip down and cover his eyes! It was the FUNNIEST thing I've seen in a while, when I first put it on him, left for supper, came back in the later evening and there's Twister, standing there with the slinky completely covering his eyes and hanging down over his nose! Oh the poor thing, but he didn't even care! His ears had also shifted down into the slinky head part, and were folded flat down on his head....so funny. I should have taken a picture. Maybe I'll recreate that.... ANYWAY, if you could make them for less than the $130 or whatever they cost - the full body ones - you'd be able to sell a lot.... But maybe the trouble wouldn't be worth it. People DO buy those things like crazy... go to a QH show and look at how many you see!
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Was she pulling my leg?!
