Basic Horse Grooming Made Easy – For Beginners Young & Old

Daily basic horse grooming should be on the top of your list when it comes to caring for your horse. You’ll need some basic horse grooming tools & equipment.

Stiff brush: A brush to loosen dirt, hair, and caked mud from the coat. Also use it after a nice long ride or workout to brush the sweaty areas of your horse back, girth etc…

Finishing brush: A brush with soft bristles for giving your horse’s body a final polish

Face brush: a soft bristled brush made especially for the face.

Curry comb: A comb to loosen dirt and hair, make sure you get rubber one as they are the best.

Hoof pick: Used to remove rocks and other debris from the hooves.

Mane comb/brush: A comb for the mane and tail. Plastic rubber or metal combs are best because these will last longer.

Shedding blade: A metal blade for loosening dead hair from your horse’s coat, especially after winter.

Grooming is rather easy. Start by using a rubber curry comb. Use it in a circular motion to loosen dirt that has settled under the horse's hair. Don’t use the curry comb on your horses face. Next get your stiff bristled brush for your horse's body. Start at the neck and work your way down to his withers, back, stomach and hindquarters flick the brush away from the coat so that the dirt comes off of his coat. Look for any scrapes, fly bites bumps etc…and treat them as needed. Then after you’ve made sure you’ve gotten the heavy dirt off you come back with the finishing brush to get any excess dirt and to smooth the coat out to a nice shiny finish. Also use your finish brush on your horses’ legs

Use your face brush gently on your horses face. I generally start from the bottom of the face or neck & work my way to the top to get a horse used to being brushed on the face.

Next I comb my horses mane and tail, pretty self explanatory though here’s a grooming tip. I run my fingers through my horses mane & tail so that when I comb it, I don’t get a lot of excess hair coming out in my brush.

Lastly I pick out my horses hooves. I check for any rocks or debris, any scrapes on the bulbs of the hoof, pastern and fetlock areas. If you have access to an arena, After picking out my horses hooves I usually walk my horse around the arena to pack the arena sand in his hooves so he doesn’t get any rocks or debris in there.

That’s pretty much basic horse grooming. There are some extra things you can do but we’ll cover those in another segment.

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