Acorn poisoning

[MitchiestInge]

a horse at our new place is very very sick, prognosis not great :(

is anyone else seeing unusual volumes of acorns? my horse is obsessed with them, have actually brought him in until I can see about fencing off areas around oak trees - the not so great thing about field the size of a small county - although everyone is working hard to rake up as many as possible, vet said could take as few as ten

[Loshad]

eh have i had too much wine or is it you lot?.
FWIW have moved mine out of the field with the oak tree and they will stay out of there now until the spring (looking foward to dh going away for a few days next weekend so they can go in the play area which is looking particulalry lush )

[AlpinePony]

Errr... not bumsex duty, just um you know, "reading".

[AlpinePony]

[olderyetwider]

Is this the first tack room bumsex thread?

[Haggyoldclothbatspus]

Did HQ complain about you being sodomised brutally by a goat? Classic.

[TenderlyLovinglyByAGoat]

the love between a woman and a goat, even the beauty that is anal love, is not welcome here :(

although made self feel a bit sick when I expressed hose sentiments to hq

[Haggyoldclothbatspus]

tenderlylovinglywhatbyagoat??

[olderyetwider]

Which are you finding more satisfactory, Mitchie?

[TenderlyLovinglyByAGoat]

(not that have been told off )

[TenderlyLovinglyByAGoat]

(just trying different name, feels a bit less alarming)

[BrutallySodomisedByAGoat]

:( that's absolutely heart breaking

the mare from my first post is home, but they are not sure how badly liver is damaged - she does have some other problems too, sometimes it is better for it to be quick isn't it? unless am being unduly pessimistic

none of the horses in our field are getting to any green acorns or many brown so far, can't go on much longer can it?

[Lucyinthepie]

I think it might be worth people reading this:
ihdg.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=gh11&action=display&thread=118105

[Haggyoldclothbatspus]

I only ever ride in jeans! They hide a multitude of sins! Ours are stuffing acorns like addicts at the moment. Nobody has died so far!

[Butkin]

Went out on Sunday morning and raked up 3 large wheel barrow loads of them from the taped off parts of our fields because, having read this thread, I was nervous of them breaking through. Still got loads to fall though.

[BrutallySodomisedByAGoat]

I'm sure they have to be green, it's the same as the leaves isn't it - tannin? Tannic acid? Something?

[Lucyinthepie]

So, going back to the topic of horses dying as a result of eating acorns. Does anyone know if the dead brown ones are as toxic as the green ones?

[BrutallySodomisedByAGoat]

Purple tartan sounds nice actually, have been a bit of sharer B's purple jodhpurs. Think will campaign for change in rider attire for certain events, people with lumpy squishy bottoms should be allowed to wear jeans?

[Haggyoldclothbatspus]

No love, it looks delightfully skinny!
White breeches EVER??? WHY???
Last pair of johds I owned were purple tartan. They were bad enough! I was one giant purple tartan arse!

[BrutallySodomisedByAGoat]

Yes! But does my bum look sore big in this new guise? Talking of which, white breeches for SJ - WHY?

[Haggyoldclothbatspus]

Is that you Mitchy? I love the new name!!

[BrutallySodomisedByAGoat]

FOREST obviously
WHY?
is firriest even a word?

[BrutallySodomisedByAGoat]

Yeah, new firriest, that's it. Good idea isn't it? Mine wouldn't be impressed, although they are happy with the sheep and the cow after initial extreme terror.

[Haggyoldclothbatspus]

Mitchy, are you talking about the New Forest pannage?
Every year, hundreds of pigs are let loose into the NF to eat the acorns, so that they dont poison the ponies.

[Mirage]

If there are too many to remove,would spraying them with watered down manure make them unpalatable to horses? Or is that a stupid idea?

[Lylah]

As few as ten is a bit shocking!

I spent 2-3 hours last year raking up a huge mound of the pesky things and had the blisters to show for it! Seemed to work though.

Would I be right in thinking that it's not such a big deal once they go brown....?