Shedding

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Finally, it’s spring and SHEDDING time again! In my experience it is better to start grooming your equine with a plastic multi-bristled, human hairbrush to get the dead undercoat off your equine than to use a shedding blade at first. The shedding blade cannot reach the shorter undercoat and can break off healthy hair shafts. The 20 hairbrush works particularly well on the thicker donkey hair coats that can easily get tangled. If you use the hairbrush first, you can come back over it lightly with the shedding blade and it will only remove the dead, longer hairs that are already loose. Doing it this way will pull the undercoat from the roots that are ready to let go and won’t cause breakage of healthy hair. After the hair brush and shedding blade, a quick once over with a damp (but not wet!) dandy brush, will remove the excess dust from the aerated coat. A sprinkle of Johnson’s baby oil in the mane and tail will soften the hair, make it easier to comb over, and will keep equines from chewing on each other’s manes and tails during mutual equine grooming and playtime. Learn a lot more under TRAINING and in our STORE for much more information about the management and training of your equine at www.luckythreeranch.com.