christina_ski
Well-Known Member
Hello,
This will be my first time showing a black horse, much less she is a weanling (well come august she will be lol). She is solid black with 4 white feet and a mixed tail. The problem is she was clipped out when she was a month old, and she look good then, but is now a patchwork of funny colors at 2 months old. Her body has grown back nice and black, but her head, neck and mane are a brownish sunbleached color, and her legs are greyish above her white markings (her legs where clipped about 2 weeks later then her body, our blades gave out on me) She does not have grey in her at all, both parents are black pinto with no grey parents. We had one black filly do that to us last year (the grey on the legs), but she was not showing, so we didn't do anything about it.
Is there a certain way you clip black horses to have them be a nice jet black (or close to it) For example do I need to reclip her a few weeks before Nationals, and again so many days before?? Would it possible to enhance her color with like hair dye (I have no idea how to do that tho)
I am open to all ideas, she is beautiful little filly who is going to be a nice one in the futurity halter class (She is all of 25.5" tall at 2 months old) I just don't want the judge to see a patchwork of colors and not the horse.
Thanks,
Christina
This will be my first time showing a black horse, much less she is a weanling (well come august she will be lol). She is solid black with 4 white feet and a mixed tail. The problem is she was clipped out when she was a month old, and she look good then, but is now a patchwork of funny colors at 2 months old. Her body has grown back nice and black, but her head, neck and mane are a brownish sunbleached color, and her legs are greyish above her white markings (her legs where clipped about 2 weeks later then her body, our blades gave out on me) She does not have grey in her at all, both parents are black pinto with no grey parents. We had one black filly do that to us last year (the grey on the legs), but she was not showing, so we didn't do anything about it.
Is there a certain way you clip black horses to have them be a nice jet black (or close to it) For example do I need to reclip her a few weeks before Nationals, and again so many days before?? Would it possible to enhance her color with like hair dye (I have no idea how to do that tho)
I am open to all ideas, she is beautiful little filly who is going to be a nice one in the futurity halter class (She is all of 25.5" tall at 2 months old) I just don't want the judge to see a patchwork of colors and not the horse.
Thanks,
Christina