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Summary: Using soft brushes increases circulation in horses and polishes their coats. Learn how to use short soft brushes in this free pet care video from a certified equine massage practitioner.
Judith Falk is a certified equine sports massage practitioner from Lincoln, Vt., and the owner of Second Wind Equine Sports Massage. Falk first became interested in equine massage...read more
"So here we have 3 different kinds of Soft brushes. We have a nice one with long bristles, it's great for the horses body but it is very soft. You could use it on their face and on their nose if you needed to and they're not going to have to many objections to it, the bristles are very soft. This is a nice one because it has a strap on the back of it to help it stay on your hand while you're working on them. The bristles are a little bit, they're quite a bit shorter than the other ones but again it's very soft. So this is a better one to use in the summer when their coats are shorter. You can really work down their sides with it. The soft brushes will add some circulation to their skin to, get the blood moving and give a nice polish to their coat too and this is one of my favorites, this little tiny face brush. It's very very soft. It's little so it can get into areas like underneath their chin, in between the cheek bones. You can use it nicely on their face, around their eyes. Just polish their coat a little bit and this is something that most horses like. It's very soothing to them to have this used."