As spring draws near, make sure you have your HandsOn Grooming Mits hand for when your horse begins to shed their thick winter coats and this process is called shedding. We all look forward to spring and grooming your horses's winter coat out is very rewarding. Here are a few tips on how you can help speed up removing that think winter coat or to just help your horse along.
Here at Barnstaple Equestrian Supplies we have a host of Shedding Blades, Brushes and Shedding Combs including the very handy HandsOn Grooming Mits to help.
HandsOn Grooming Mits your best choice for moulting horse coats
The three stages of a hair’s life cycle are anagen, catagen, and telogen. The anagen phase is happening when hair is actively growing. This is a function of time, not length. The length of the anagen phase is set, and it’s up to good nutrition, good grooming habits, and a healthy skin to make the hairs as long as possible during that phase.
Then comes the catagen phase, where the hair and hair follicle just rest. A new hair might be forming to take it’s place, but mainly there’s nothing going on. This phase might last a few weeks.
Lastly, there’s the telogen phase, where the hair falls out in preparation for a new hair to start the anagen phase.
This explains why your horse will lose hair all year long! A nice curry glove session in the heat of summer will loosen and remove those hairs in the telogen phase. Same in the cold of winter. This also applies to the mane and tail, which of course have much longer anagen phases. There is nothing to do to prevent this natural hair loss – it’s just the same and a human finding hair in their hairbrush.
So how can we remove all this unwanted moulting hair - Try our HandsOn Grooming Mits
How To Help Your Horse Shed It's Winter Coat - Try Our HandsOn Grooming Mits!
As the daylight hours and temperatures begin to increase in the springtime, you will notice that the thick, long winter hair starts to shed. It is actually the horse’s pituitary gland that recognizes this change in daylight hours and produces hormones that cause a horse to shed its winter coat. If you are looking to speed up the shedding process, adding light and vigorous grooming can help.
Shedding Blades And Shedding Brushes For Horses - Alternatives to our HandsOn Grooming Mits
HandsOn Grooming Mits or Shedding Gloves are one of our most popular products are our hands on grooming gloves as you’ve never experienced it before!
HandsOn Grooming Mits are grooming gloves offering a revolutionary concept that go far beyond traditional curry combs, mitts & scrubbers on the market today. Wet or dry, your HandsOn Grooming Mits won’t slip or fall off while providing an incredible grooming experience - as close to nature as you can get!
These HandsOn Grooming Mits are shedding gloves giving a perfect combination of scrubbing nodules on fingers and palms gets to grips with the toughest stains & winter coats, great de-shedder simply & easily releasing accumulated hair massages muscles & stimulates circulation, use both hands with your HandsOn Grooming Mits simultaneously to groom gloves tactile touch gently cleans sensitive areas like legs, faces & ears easy to hold hose pipes & ropes hands and fingernails stay clean and dry give your horse a bonding & relaxing experience he won’t forget folds away into pocket or grooming kit
HandsOn Grooming Mits are Grooming Gloves - simply a revolution in grooming and bathing!
SHEDDING BRUSHES, CURRY COMBS AND SHEDDING BLADES - Alternatives to HandsOn Grooming Mits
Aswell as HandsOn Grooming Mits we stock Sheading Blades and other Grooming Products to help at this moulting phase. Our Shedding Blades can come in a range of bright colours and are flexible metal blade with a serrated edge and a plan edge. You might also like our rubber brushes such as the Hippo Brushes and Rubber Curry Combs or LeMieux Hippo Scribber. Finally check out our Vanish Groomer.
So with your pair of HandsOn Grooming Mits you will be well prepared in handling this messy time of year and ensure you remove your horses loose moulting hair quickly and comfortably for you and your horse.
So with our choice of Grooming Blades, Hippo Brushes, Shedding Blades and scrubbers we can offer you all the choices including the HandsOn Grooming Mits, what a range of grooming products!!
And to go alongside all our lovely grooming brushes and HandsOn Grooming Mits we also have a range of horse shampoos and mane and tail conditioners from brands such as, Supreme Products, Lincoln, Carr & Day & Martin, NAF, Omega Equine, Absorbine, Cowboy Magic.
For our more difficult tasks we also have a range of stain removers and whitening shampoos. Check out these
So lets get Horsey Shopping
Good Grooming Techniques with Your HandsOn Grooming Mits
When using a new type of shampoo, it’s smart to try it on a small area of your horse’s body and wait 24 hours to check for an allergic reaction before proceeding. Some horses have sensitive skin and may break out in hives when exposed to certain ingredients.
At bath time, use the minimum amount of shampoo specified on the bottle? usually one capful in a bucket of water. Instead of applying shampoo directly on a wet coat, put it in a bucket of water and sponge it on or onto your HandsOn Grooming Mits. This will distribute it more evenly and make it easier to rinse.
For an especially dirty coat, scrub with a currycomb or a pair of HandsOn Grooming Mits. When you are finished with the suds, rinse, rinse and rinse again. This task is easier with a watering “gun,” which has several speed and spray settings. You can widen the stream to cover larger areas, like the barrel and flanks, then soften the flow for sensitive spots. You’re not done with this step until you use a sweat scraper or your HandsOn Grooming Mits and not a single soap bubble appears.
TOP TIP - The bathing secret of many great groomers is a finishing rinse? a quick sponge down with water containing a conditioner or light oil to replace whatever shine the soap may have taken away.
Silicone spray. You can make a horse look slick and shiny just through skillful grooming, but silicone spray makes it a lot easier. Effective groomers utilize their HandsOn Grooming Mits and these products in many ways. Spritzed on the surface of a body brush, silicone sprays act as a magnet for coat-dulling dust. Applied to a tail, they help detangle strands while minimizing breakage. And sprayed as a finishing touch, they add shine and coat each hair shaft so dirt slides off - the finishing touch after using your HandsOn Grooming Mits
Savvy groomers not only have their HandsOn Grooming Mits but also know silicone sprays don’t replace grooming time and effort, but they do maximize their benefits
