She pees on her tail and it's bleaching?

Question

My Mare pees on her tail, her tail isn't not too long, it originally was too long when I first got her, it's now about 3 or so inches below her hocks. She is bay so naturally has a black tail but on the bottom few inches where she pees on it it has been bleached to a dull white / grayish colour.

I have watched her and she appears to be a bit lazy when peeing, she doesn't seem to stretch herself out enough or lift her tail enough and so catches the bottom of her tail with wee splash.

I have owned quite a few mares and never had this problem. She is currently only on a grass and hay diet and still doing it, she also did it when on a hardfeed (stabled) diet so I don't think it's anything she's eating.

My question is, is there anything I can give her to reduce the amonia in her wee or really anything at all I can do to reduce it? Has anyone ever seen or heard of this?

It's not a massive problem, I don't show her at the moment, I've just never seen it before and wondered if there's something I can do or how common it is.

ps. I won't put her tail in a bag to solve this or plait it, it's not that big of a problem that I want to take her tail away from her as we live in Australia, she really needs her tail against the nasty flys and bugs we have.

Thanks guys and gals.

Answer 1

ooh...australian flies. that's the worst and it would be torture to disable her only weapon against flies.

that isn't a very common problem and it isn't that bad but if you are concerned about shows or things that you do need her to look her best you can find gels and temporary dyes to put in the end of her tail.

some good  ways to fix it is actually using african american women's hair dye . avoid the redish or purple tents. it helps if you put  a towel or a wrap behind the tail so you dont dye their butt.

   in some countries it is illegal  to put any products for humans on horses or any animals so make sure you arent gonna get in trouble for this! i'm not sure about the laws there.

  hope this helps

  

Answer 2

http://equisearch.com/horses_care/health...

This just came out on equisearch. Hope it helps!

Answer 3

I guess the only option is to just live with it. There's not much you can do to rearrange the pee except prevent her from drinking, but I'm assuming you'd rather have a horse with a pee bleached tail then no horse at all. They do have a product for if and when you start showing. It comes in a  can and is very much like spray paint only safe for horse hair. Just get it in black and spray the bottom of her tail for shows.