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Re: [RC] Toxic amount of acorns? - rdcarrie

Our 10-ac. pasture is full of oak trees.  All 8 horses eat acorns.  I do watch them to make sure that none of them spends all its time gorging, but none of them really go nuts...they just munch on them a little each day.  My 11 yr old mare probably eats the most, but even she isn't unreasonable.  If I saw one of the group that seemed really fixated on eating acorns, I'd do something, but that hasn't been the case.  In fact, even with 8 horses, there are still enough acorns on the ground that we get 5 or 6 deer in the pasture every evening eating them. 
 
 Dawn in East Texas
 
 
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From: Truman Prevatt <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: rides2far@xxxxxxxx
Cc: rdcarrie@xxxxxxx; ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:34:10 -0500
Subject: Re: [RC] Toxic amount of acorns?

I think acorns are one of those things that if a horse is used to eatting them - they are fine, but if a horse has never had them before or it's been a long time and eats a bunch they will cause a problem. Where I used to live we had lots of oak trees in the pastures. The horses kept the acorns pretty well cleaned up. They never had a problem with them. Where I am not we don't have many oak trees - some pines and some wild cherry but only one or two oaks on 20 acres. 
 
At a ride last year we happen to camp near a grove of oak trees. My horse ate, among other things, acorns on Friday night. I did pull him at 30 miles because the just didn't seem right. He wouldn't eat. I suspect the acorns were bothering him since he hadn't seen many for 8 years (when he liven in an oak a hammock where he ate them all the time). I moved his pin out so he could not get them. In a few hours he was back to normal. 
 
Of if your horse is use d to them - I wouldn't worry much. 
 
Truman 
 
rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote: 
 
>> And some >>horses can apparently develop an addition to acorns. 
>> >> 

>A little clarification. He's got fresh Coastal Bermuda hay in front of 
>him at all times. I throw more than they'll clean up out morning & 
>evening. I've also started putting it at both ends of the field so if he 
>happens to feel hungry under the oak trees and doesn't want to walk to 
>the usual hay spot, it will be right there. I don't know if the acorns 
>are the problem, but I do know he loves them. When we were pre-riding the 
>trail at Skymont he'd start trotting slower in some places with his nose 
>to the ground, then stop dead and rustle around for acorns. (they had big 
>ones!) It seems to have been a bumper crop this year...good for w ild pigs 
>I hear. 

>Angie 

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