The honest answer: a daily round plus a weekly session
A Belgian does not need fussy grooming, show-ring grooming or daily bathing. What it needs is consistency at scale. This is one of the heaviest breeds in the world, standing around 16 to 18 hands with a broad, deep body, and every grooming job — brushing, hoof care, mane work — simply covers more ground than on a riding horse. Budget a short daily session of ten to fifteen minutes and one longer weekly groom, and a Belgian stays in excellent order. Neglect the daily round for a week and the catching up is a project.
Daily: feet and feather first
The non-negotiable daily job is the feet. Belgian hooves are enormous dinner plates that collect packed mud, stones and manure, and the breed carries feathering around the fetlocks that holds wet dirt against the skin. Pick out all four feet every day, and while you are down there, part the feather and check the heels and pasterns for the scabs, greasiness and soreness that thrive unnoticed under hair. A quick brush over the body with a stiff brush knocks off dried mud and bedding and gives you the daily once-over for cuts, rubs from harness, and any swelling on those massive legs. In work, sponge sweat from under the collar and saddle areas afterwards — salt drying in a thick summer coat makes a draft horse itch and rub.
Weekly: mane, tail and the full brush-down
The Belgian's mane is thick, often wavy, and grows fast; the tail is full and collects debris from the bottom up. Once a week, finger-comb or carefully brush out the tail, picking out tangles from the ends upward rather than tearing through them, and do the same for the mane. A full body groom with curry and brushes in sequence lifts the grease and scurf a daily flick-over leaves behind. This is also the time to wash the feather properly if it has become filthy, and to dry it thoroughly afterwards — damp feather left against the skin invites the very problems the daily check looks for.
Seasonal realities
In spring a Belgian sheds a genuinely impressive volume of winter coat, and daily currying for a few weeks keeps the horse comfortable and stops it rubbing patches out on fences. In summer the thick neck and crest sweat heavily, and midges bother the mane line, so expect to rinse sweat off more often and keep the mane clean. Bathing the whole horse is a warm-day, occasional job — it takes a long time to wet, wash, rinse and dry a horse this size, and a badly rinsed draft coat holds soap and dries itchy.
Keeping the round covered
The Belgian's grooming is easy work that is easy to postpone, which is exactly why it belongs on an assigned list rather than in someone's memory. Set the feet-and-feather check as a daily task and the mane and tail session as a weekly one in KinsLe's Care Teams, and each job is marked complete with a timestamp by whoever does it — so a horse this size never quietly goes a week without its heels being looked at.