Chestnuts!!!!!!

[moneypit1]

Got my Fly boy out for a good groom and cuddle today and noticed that his chestnuts on his front legs were huge. SO,,,,, I picked them! Oh how satisfying! The dog enjoyed them too. Do you ever pick your horses or are do you leave well alone? (Can't help myself, bit of a scab picker too)!!

 

[merlinsquest]

Cant bear scraggy chestnuts

I always peel them off if they are tatty

 

[Eaglestone]

I just loooooooooooooove picking things so my old boy is Chestnutless and Ergotless in a flash ..... I will pick at anything, very satisfying

 

[Tabbi]

eeeewwww and there was me thinking this post would be about chestnuts to eat!!! lol

 

[moneypit1]

Yummy! What is the point of them anyway?

 

[meardsall_millie]

They're a remnant from evolution. Horses stand on the equivalent of your middle finger, the splint bones are the next 2 fingers, and the chestnut is the thumb.

Not sure what happened to the little finger...?!

 

[moneypit1]

Scary! How on earth do they manage to support themselves let alone us?

 

[djlynwood]

Had no idea they could be picked off, I just carefully groom around them

Is it like picking a scab off?

 

[mrsew]

I pick them off too!!

 

[Cahill]

i hate seeing untended ones.all mine are taken off flat.my cob has ones that come off in 1 piece,the shetlands are slightly crumblier.i cut my cobs ergots off with secatours or my farrier does it.

 

[toffeesmarty]

Yup love picking them off.
I also get the yard job of cleaning the boys bits. I enjoy this too

 

[Ottinmeg]

don't get chance to pick otto's front ones off as he bites them off!

 

[kellyeaton]

i pick them off put soak them in oil so they are rally soft then fall off in one go!

 

[longtalltilly]

I pick them off! I cant stand big chestnuts!! i dont think any of mine actually get the chance to grow!