sellefrancais wrote:
I would recommend having someone else there if it's your/his first time so they can hold his tail to the side to prevent him from kicking... just in case.


Here's how it went with one of my previous geldings...sponge, sponge, duck, duck, sponge, sponge, duck, duck

Natty Bumppo wrote:


i am always amazed that people feel the need to ask if roaching is the answer. roaching is never the answer. never. not even if your horse's mane is on fire and the only way to put it out is to cut it off. it'd look better singed off from an out of control fire than from being roached. the end.