GREY ARAB

[joto]

OH grey arab mare is rugged but she [obviously ]doesnt like the colour i've just watched her roll in the most disgusting liquid slurry-type mud that exists in the world. theres 3 million thousand tonnes hanging off the thing, dripping merrily, her head is no longer white, nor any other bits which stick out from the extreamities.
would take a photo but weathers revolting.

[greyhorses]

LOL! I've got two greys - an arab and a fat cob - and they both like the mud too - oh and sleeping with their faces in pooh!

[sara]

Tell me about it! I think greys are genetically made to be filthy buggers

[eskimo]

LOL Sara, im not brave enough to let mine out without a rug in winter even if it is a no fill one.
My Grey IDxTB turns bay over winter, well actually he's goes like a very strange scewbald a lovely brown shade on his neck & lovely grey on his body the bit covered by the rug lol.

I'm past caring now.

[HFM]

lol sara lloyds face is like 'sorry mum'!

Whereas my two come up the field, in full camoflage, like 'HEY MUM! look what we did all night! yeah!' Jack seems to have a penchant for rubbing his head in mud at the moment, he gets it all over, round his eyes, in his winter beard! bleurgh!

[lolamae]

Having had a heap of greys, in all their glorious shades, all grey owners have my sympathy.

What I would like to know is this........how do they get their foreheads so filthy, what contortions do they perform?

One of mine would always have dollops of mud plastered between his eyes but I never actually caught him in the act!

[Margaret D]

Oh I've watched Arcos as I could never figure out how he did the middle of the face filth, now I know.

When rolling right over, they stretch their heads out and give their faces a right rub, delightful.

[jill]

I know somone who calls it "putting on their anoraks" i.e. feeling the cold and getting another layer on,. Could be something in that but why do greys do it more than most?

[horsiehelen]

Maybe coz they reflect the light and feel colder?

Or maybe they are all jealous of the brown horses.

[gemma]

I have a chestnut who has perfected the mud between the eyes routine - so much sometimes I can't actually see her star! It involves lying down, then twisting ones neck and grinding ones face into the mud whilst grunting with pleasure.

[Kerryf]

A non horsey friend of mine jokingly said one day, 'Maybe he likes mud as in the wild he would be easily seen by predators so he needs to camouflage himself'! I did giggle, but maybe she has a point?!

[jinks]

its an awful windy rainy evening in oxfordshire today, my horse has a rug but he has lumps of mud in his mane and ground into his neck, he gets stroppy if I try to pull it out..there is a bay horse under it somewhere, he rolls as soon as I put him out and gets up shakes and looks at me as if to say there I have put it back on again and smirks too.

[Vicky&Beenie]

grey horses mission is to get as filthy as possible lol

[HFM]

jinks im in oxfordshire too....spent an hour trying to get the mud of my (supposedly) grey beastie so i could get a rug on him in prep for the wind/rain (hes a big ol woss, but its been so mild the last few days hes been nekkid)

sitting here wondering if im cruel for wanting it to rain harder so his mane will be cleaner tomorrow

[cokey]

They're just trying to blend in, I'm sure!