Anyone have this happen before? Hair disaster

[TimeDance]

So I just dropped a good amount of money on this Star Hopper. Her hair was a little messy, so I washed and conditioned it. With conditioner in, I combed through it and the hair just began to fall apart. It was practically disintegrating in my hands. I have never seen pony hair do this. Even after the hair had dried again, the tail especially continued fall apart.

Here is how much of the tail was left before I decided to cut it all off because it was shedding everywhere. I didn't want or plan to rehair this pony, but she's getting a rehair now.

Has anyone else experienced such a thing? I had never seen anything like this.

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[Artemesia's Garden]

It happened to me once with a Barnacle. His red hair is prone to a kind of cable rot. My only ideas as to a cause would be this or someone used bleach on it.

[SweetNightmare]

Happened to me with some of my g3's
There's a thread with some examples but it does focus on g3's

[Ponybookworm]

I had a Mum Sweet Celebrations with brittle hair syndrome too. She was later Customised though, with an upgrade purchased

[BlackCurtains]

Yeah, I've had this happen with a couple G3s. Sun damage can also cause brittleness.

[Wardah]

Could oxyclean treatments have caused this? They seemed to be fairly common way to deal with dirty ponies.

[SweetNightmare]

Could oxyclean treatments have caused this? They seemed to be fairly common way to deal with dirty ponies.

I don't think so, most cases (including mine) were just due to age. Not much you can do about it besides trying not to touch the hair if you see that it's brittle or just reroot.

[pinkkittywinks]

I have had this happen

Love pkw xxx

[TimeDance]

Could oxyclean treatments have caused this? They seemed to be fairly common way to deal with dirty ponies.

In this case, I did not use oxyclean on this pony.

But I'm glad I'm not the only one who has had this happen.

[Wardah]

Could oxyclean treatments have caused this? They seemed to be fairly common way to deal with dirty ponies.

In this case, I did not use oxyclean on this pony.

But I'm glad I'm not the only one who has had this happen.

I wasn't suggesting you did. Unless it was a childhood pony, it's probably been though a few other people. I was just wondering as it's not very common with G1s.

[SunPony]

I've never encountered that with a G1...closest would be a baby pony I have with very "hard" hair - I'm not sure how to describe it, it feels very rigid.  But it hasn't broken off at all.  Maybe it will in the future.  It's sad that it happened to your Star Hopper At least you are a talented re-hairer, so she's in good hands.