How to Give a Horse a Bath
You don't need to give your horse bath often you only need to do it alt least 3 times a year!
[edit] Steps
- Curry the loose dirt and dried mud.
- Slowly rinse your horse starting at the legs and going up.
- Pour shampoo all throughout your horses body work up a lather using your hands or a rubber mitt.
- Rinse off the shampoo making sure you get off all the shampoo.
- Wash the tail, get the tail wet and then apply the shamppoo standing to the side so you don't get kicked.
- Rinse the tail, rinse extremly well
- Wash the mane, get wet and apply the shampoo.
- Rinse the mane carefully
- Dry horse with towels
- Put a clean well fitted sheet on your horse and keep him out of drafts.
- When done give your horse a pat and tell him good boy!
[edit] Tips
- dilute your shampoo, add a cup of water.
- if you have show coming up and thats why your bathing him, do the bath the day before the event.
- Praise your horse alot afterwards.
[edit] Warnings
- don't wash splashing soapy water into your hores eyes and ears nver get water in a horses ear it can get in the ear canal and may set the stage for an infection.
- don't let your horse roll afterwards!










