
01/21/2022
Excellent info! Please don’t trim those whiskers! 🙏
Beautiful sparkly whiskers ✨ But what are they for?
Whiskers have nerves at their base, so they provide sensory feedback to the horse. Horses explore things with their muzzle, and it’s a visual blind spot, so their whiskers are extra important here to give them information about objects, distance, textures and so on. They increase a horse’s awareness and sensitivity and help to protect delicate areas.
It’s great that the practice of whisker trimming is slowly being relegated to the past, with many countries and equestrian bodies no longer allowing whisker trimming on welfare grounds. 👏🏻