Follically Challenged

[twisting]

I have been looking at the pictures of everyone's horses and the things that caught my eye was all the lovely forelocks. Do you guys have a secret to maintaining them, or I'm I just the owner or the only mustang who doesn't have a beautiful forelock.

I adore Keno, despite his lack of follicular activity. I just feel bad for him whenever I have to braid his forelock. It's nothing but a few wispy hairs, barely enough to hold the yarn, and that's after letting the bridle path grow out so I could do an equine comb over job.

Don't even get me started about the mohawk he's been sporting all summer. Nothing will get that thick mane to lay flat. If it didn't have to be short enough to braid I would love to let it grow out. Poor guy looks like a fjord. Well a forelockless fjord.

Any advice on how to tame his wild locks?

[stormyranch]

No, I was gong to say,, let some of his mane grow out and comb it up from his bridle path. Unfortunetly Dino really doesn't have a lot of forlock and neither does Katie, so I think you're stuck with it.

[DianneC]

If its any consolation Tia, who is 28, has never had the big thick mane and tail either.

[grullagirl]

My horse ruger has one of the most scraggily manes you have ever seen, suprisingly enought though he has a thick forelock and a tail that never seems to stop growing. His tail actually annoys me a bit since i'm constantly pulling mesquite branches out of it. Its suprising to see how many things can be hiding in a horses tail. Your horses mane may not lay straight because of a calic, ruger has half of his mane on the other side of his neck due to one.