Show us your legs :-)

[newforest]

Just took this today to look back on before the muddy legs start appearing.
There is a muddy tuft.

 

[Trewsers]

Oooh bonny feathers! My Chloe sadly has had hers taken off. The mud began here a bit ago and she does suffer with chronic itching and mf all year round so off they came. She looks funny without her flares.

 

[Jessey]

They're looking lush

2 pairs for 1 here no fluffy socks tho

 

[newforest]

Hank is a lovely colour right now with his lighter mane.

 

[Star the Fell]

I can't believe how clean those legs are!
Our fields are really, really muddy. Mylo s lovely thick white feathers are black!

 

[domane]

Mine and the mare's! Amidst her bath this afternoon..... she's shedding her feather, Jack's always go really thin at this time of year too!

 

[newforest]

Mine and the mare's! Amidst her bath this afternoon..... she's shedding her feather, Jack's always go really thin at this time of year too!

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I only wash hers probably once or twice a year. Spring after winter when it's warmed up enough and possibly in the summer.

 

[newforest]

I can't believe how clean those legs are!
Our fields are really, really muddy. Mylo s lovely thick white feathers are black!

I have had to dig out the dandy brush to get rid of a few patches of mud today.
I think the mud actually falls off. The vet commented on how shiny her coat was= slippery as hell without the saddle!

 

[Jane&Ziggy]

Ziggy got a bib clip today and when I looked down at his legs I couldn't believe how his feathers were coming for the winter!

 

[newforest]

I think I need to redo my photos. I don't think we are this clean now.

 

[chunky monkey]

Mine aren't that clean but I keep oiling them so we are still reasonable. I will see if I can get some tomorrow.

 

[Lissie]

Loving the feather!

Here are Lottie's sturdy legs:

 

[Vicki100]

Rather floofy

 

[Lemme]

until next spring ours are only that clean when the snow cleans them off! we scrape mud off foot and coronet when the farrier visits but that's about it, we leave them alone and let them do the job they are designed for, only exception this year may be Gem , if she goes out for a ride then she might get a quick dandy just so boots can go on but suspect if winter is bad that won't be often.

 

[Bodshi]

Before and during (you can imagine the after)

ETA - sorry I don't get why there is an extra attached pic, or why the others are so big!

 

[newforest]

View attachment 90209 View attachment 90210 Before and during (you can imagine the after)

Ha ha sorry had to giggle.
I can do that just going through the woods. Does your girth look filthy as well?

 

[newforest]

if she goes out for a ride then she might get a quick dandy just so boots can go on but suspect if winter is bad that won't be often.

I am like that. Brush the top half to go out and leave the bottom that looks like it's already been.
I only brush the feathers to remove mud/burrs they haven't been washed.

 

[Bodshi]

Ha ha sorry had to giggle.
I can do that just going through the woods. Does your girth look filthy as well?

Everything was filthy, including my face . I've been picking hard nuggets of mud off Raf's belly all week ...

 

[newforest]

December 2. Our mud is developing.

 

[Bodshi]

December 2. Our mud is developing.

So why do you have mud on the ground and yet the white hairs on her legs are levitating above it? Wonder why that doesn't work for Raf, and he doesn't even have feathers ...