Horse Grooming
Stall Rest Secrets – Keep Your Horse Sane
Stall rest is challenging for horses – time to get creative and banish boredom.
Tidy Up Your Horse’s Winter Coat
How to tidy up the fuzziest of horses, without doing a body clip. It’s all optional!
Horse Bathing Tips
Tips for bathing your horse – but you will still probably get at least a little bit wet.
Horses and Ticks – Blech!
How to help prevent awful ticks from latching onto your horse. These buggers must perish.
Cleaning Your Horse’s Ears
How to care for your horse’s ears – it’s deceptively hands-off, but you still need to get in there for daily inspections.
Your Horse’s Dry Skin and Dull Coat
Help your horse’s coat be less dull and dry. This is often part season, part nutrition, and part grooming.
Udder and Sheath Cleaning
Your horse may, or may not, need regular sheath or udder cleaning. Horse can attract flies, and feel itchy or uncomfortable with excessive smegma, and this can create painful beans for stallions, geldings, and mares.
Improve Your Horse’s Winter Coat – 6 Easy Tips
Spend a little more time grooming your horse’s long winter coat, add a dollop of product, and feed for healthy skin to keep your horse shiny in their winter coat.
Horse Grooming Tips for a Photo Shoot
Getting your horse ready for a photo shoot is a lot like horse show prep – bath early, clip and trim two weeks out, and don’t hold back on shine products. Also consider lighting, location, props, and backdrops. Here are the best tips to get ready!
Using Pig Oil for Horses vs. Pig Oil with Sulphur
Pig oils are helpful to help feathered horses resist mud, thus decreasing the chances of mud fever. The antimicrobial sulfur added to some pig oils help with mites and skin conditions.
51 Horse Grooming Tips
Horse grooming doesn’t have to be time consuming and annoying – here are many, many horse grooming tips to get your horse’s skin healthy while saving time and money at the barn. Horse grooming is health care!
The Ultimate Horse Show Packing Checklist
Stay organized and pack quickly with this downloadable horse show packing checklist. Some items have more than one use, and you can change up the list as you need! Never forget anything for your next horse show.
Poultice for Horses – Soothe the Legs
Tips on using poultice to cool your horse’s leg and hooves Check the ingredient for things that test at horse shows, like menthol, capsaicin, or other prohibited substances. Use standing wraps to secure the poultice overnight.
Fly Sprays For Horses – Chemical, Fatty Acid, or Essential Oils?
Fly Sprays For Horses: Chemical, Fatty Acid, Essential Oils Fly season is coming up, which means endless fighting with gnats, stable flies, and all varieties of flying insects that want to annoy us and the horses. Fly sprays for horses come in seemingly endless varieties, so how do you know which to choose? Natural ingredients
Why Horses Stall Kick
Horses kick for many reasons – pain, play, communication, defense, and more. Understanding stall kicking and why horses kick can help you determine why your horse may be kicking inapporpriatly.
Costumes for Horses – Homemade Halloween Outfits
Have fun with blankets, sheets, felt, glitter, and more when you make your horse’s Halloween costume. Costumes for horses can also be store-bought.
Meet Amanda C – Groom’s Class Winner
Meet Amanda Chiapetta – Winner of the 2016 Shapley’s Groom’s Class at WEF! Every year, for several year’s now, Shapley’s sponsors and hosts a series of Groom’s Classes at shows across the country. Shapley’s also sponsors numerous “Best Turned Out Awards” to be given to Top Grooms of horses in major competitions across the
