While I’m not a big believer in using soap on animals very often, (it strips their coat of essential oils) sometimes it’s unavoidable. When it’s bath time, it’s bath time.
Although it seems self-explanatory, sometimes it helps to know any tips & tricks before attempting to wash a horse for the first time. This quick video provides an overview of washing techniques with advice for the best ways to get your animal clean.
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How Dirty is Your Horse
Again I feel like it’s important to mention that most soaps strip oil out of your animal’s coat. This isn’t something they do in nature so it is a foreign process to them. When you do use soap, be sure to use organic products made from vegetable oils (some conventional soaps use animal tallow – double ew).
This is great! I need to keep this so I can reminded of it when summer is back. Thanks, Karin
O.K, I am guilty of loving to give my horses a bath. Love it. Especially my grey who loves to sleep in his manure and poop in his tail. I also think on hot summer days a nice sponging with just water and a non alcohol brace must feel so good to them with all their bug bites and itches. Do I bathe too much? Probably. Guilty. Although since I live in Maine they get a six month or longer break from my bathing they are safe from me ruining their coats.