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Help Your Horse Shed
Horses shed their coat twice a year—in the spring and fall. During this process, the next season’s coat is growing simultaneously. Check out some tips for helping your horse shed.
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Cold Weather Grooming Tips
Grooming your horse in the winter takes a little more elbow grease than in summer. The routine and grooming steps are the same, but you must account for longer hair and no option to bathe if it’s too cold where you live. However, there are ways to deep-clean your fuzzy horse in cold weather.
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5 Mistakes to Avoid When Grooming Your Horse
When you develop a grooming routine during your daily barn chores and riding, it can be easy to fall into some bad habits or forget about an important step. Here’s a list of mistakes to avoid while grooming your horse and what you can do instead.
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Six Winter Grooming Challenges
With winter comes a change in your horse's coat, and your grooming habits. Knowing how to take care of your horse's winter coat is essential to ensuring he has a healthy summer coat, as well. Learn tips from a grooming expert from Shapley's, the official grooming products sponsor of the U.S. Pony Clubs, about how to overcome these six common winter grooming challenges.
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Good Grooming Goals: Get Your Horse Ready for a Rally or Horse Show
This Good Grooming Goals article from Shapley's, the official grooming products sponsor of USPC, discusses how to take care of your horse day-to-day in order to be ready when it comes time for a rally or horse show.
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Good Grooming Goals: Dealing with Rain Rot
Learn all about rain rot in horses, including how to treat and prevent this skin condition.
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Summer Horse Grooming Solutions
Professional equine groom Cat Hill offers advice for three common summer grooming problems.
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Make the Most of Spring Horse Grooming
Use these tips from a professional groom to give your horse a spring makeover.
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Fall Grooming Fixes
As the crisp fall weather arrives, our horses present us with some unique grooming challenges.
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