Body Clipping + How To Get Color Back Quickly??

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It's that time of year again.. Time to Body Clip the show horses. I did two yesterday, a dark chestnut and a bay. The bay looks great ( always does after bodyclipping) and the dark chestnut looks like a gruella! Everyone in the barn is on a hair coat supplement so I know thats not the problem, but how can I get there color to come back RIGHT AWAY? I was told to sweat with linament.. Anything else to try?

[VLayne]

Nothing. You've cut the hair short so their skin color is showing through (the skin is dark gray/black). Also, the hair is a different color at the root than the tip. You just have to wait for it to grow back.

[3kidsandahorse]

It won't help the color, but you can spray some stuff called "pink". I believe it's in the ethnic hair care section of Walmart, or maybe in a tack store. I can't remember. It will add some oil to the coat and make it shiny and not quite so dry looking.

[wstrngrl]

LOL, that's why we don't body clip this late unless absolutely necessary (which it rarely is thank god :p)

[Jrchloe]

It will only take 2-3 weeks for it to look normal. Just groom well to bring blood and oil up to the skin (like popping a towel) and maybe some spray conditioner and you should be fine.

[D_BaldStockings]

As a former dog groomer, I have often wondered why horse people body clip with a #10 blade, which is quite short.
...if it is possible to order a #8 or on down to a #4 blade for the big Osters, that leaves a lot more hair on the animal and you would not have the scalped look.

I know the show cattle people use clipper blades leaving the hair longer so they can 'sculpt' a bit.
Might be worth looking into for a late date body clip.

Mary

[kmmed1]

We used this for the odd colored ones for years, and it helps. Mix in a 5 gallon bucket 2 cups of corn oil, water as hot as you and your horse can stand, and enough iodine to turn the water pink.
Work your horse covered up with a neck sweat and a jog sheet, make sure he sweats. After your done, bath him in the iodine mixture, keep stirring as the oil will separate from the water. Don't scrape him, cover him with a couple of wool coolers and walk him for 10 minutes. Uncover him, scrape him, and then rub him dry.
You won't see a big difference right away, but it really does help. Just don't use too much iodine.

[pbs]

It's that time of year again.. Time to Body Clip the show horses. I did two yesterday, a dark chestnut and a bay. The bay looks great ( always does after bodyclipping) and the dark chestnut looks like a gruella! Everyone in the barn is on a hair coat supplement so I know thats not the problem, but how can I get there color to come back RIGHT AWAY? I was told to sweat with linament.. Anything else to try?

Try useing Avons Skin so soft mixed with water it waorks really well for us.

[Cynthia]

We used this for the odd colored ones for years, and it helps. Mix in a 5 gallon bucket 2 cups of corn oil, water as hot as you and your horse can stand, and enough iodine to turn the water pink.
Work your horse covered up with a neck sweat and a jog sheet, make sure he sweats. After your done, bath him in the iodine mixture, keep stirring as the oil will separate from the water. Don't scrape him, cover him with a couple of wool coolers and walk him for 10 minutes. Uncover him, scrape him, and then rub him dry.
You won't see a big difference right away, but it really does help. Just don't use too much iodine.

I'm not questioning that this works...but my goodness, how does one come up with THAT? :blink::thumbup:

[Ignitor]

We have used Olive Oil instead of the corn oil and Tuttles in stead of the Iodine.. Same premise..after we work them in a sweat ( blanket and jog sheet) we bath them in this mixture ..must be hot water.. and yes you have to keep mixing it .. then wrap them up in coolers and bake them.. It puts the shine in the coat .. darkens the color and the Tuttles helps ease the muscles.

We have been doing that mixture since 1980.. and it works. I remember the Old timers just baking he horses with Tuttles for the sheen and to warm the muscles before the class.. not sure how we came about with the olive oil being added to just clipped horses..but we did and it works.

kmmed1 has a few more WGC ribbons on her walls then I do.. so I would say try her way.

[kmmed1]

The iodine in the bath mixture has a tendancy to "dye" the hair follicles, which is why you don't scrape off the excess right away. I don't know why it works, other than you are opening up the hair follicles, when you get them to sweat, but it does work, and I've been doing it for over 20 years.

[july]

As a former dog groomer, I have often wondered why horse people body clip with a #10 blade, which is quite short.
...if it is possible to order a #8 or on down to a #4 blade for the big Osters, that leaves a lot more hair on the animal and you would not have the scalped look.

I know the show cattle people use clipper blades leaving the hair longer so they can 'sculpt' a bit.
Might be worth looking into for a late date body clip.

Mary

LOL
as a current dog groomer i have thought of that too. i just body clipped a black horse and a chestnut, both look great. i used a #7f reverse and they look just like they do in the heat of the summer, not shaved,not hairey either and no clipper lines.

[silvia]

If you use a little iodine in the mix, what do you do for white markings? Won't it dye them a bit pink?

[kmmed1]

I make sure that the mixture isn't applied to the white markings. I use as little water as possible to wash a horse, and make sure that the feet aren't soaked. If you use enough iodine to dye the white, then you have too much.

[NicoleE.]

If you want to you can wash the horse with a color shampoo, after it has been clipped. If it is a Chestnut or bay use a Quikblack (black shampoo). I really doesn't change their color to much, but it will brighten the coat and bring out the shin.

[silvia]

I have a chestnut with two white socks and a stripe, can't see how I would avoid getting the socks wet with the mix if I am washing the rest of him - or are we talking a damp/wet sponge application?