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i know that chestnuts are more sensitive and some might say ''hot headed''compared to every other colour!!! but did you know that they have 10,000 more sensativity nerves per square inch all over their bodies to any other colour!!!! so thats why they are so sensative. i only found that out today!!! they say you learn something new everyday!!!
 
Really?? Are you sure thats true?? where'd you here that?? So that proves the chestnut mare thing then, and also that you must be a bad rider if they don't go for you!
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Maybe a reason why human red heads are so feisty too!
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a friend of mine practised as a NH instructor years ago and she was looking through her old notes yesterday, and the lady teaching uses a ''chestnut mare!!'' as her demo horse, as they are 10,000 times more sensative and its a perfect horse to teach NH with!!! its interesting to know isn't it!!!

i bet if you all think back to when you have met/owned/ridden chestnut horses they are more firery one way or another than any other colour!!!
 
Umm Ive only ever known one chestnut who was a cowbag, most of the chestnut geldings Ive known have been sweethearts.

10,000 more sensitivity nerves per square inch?!
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Can you please post the link to this and I will show it to my 7 chestnut horses, because they quite obviously have not read this piece of literature!
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Hmm well I have mares and geldings......seems that none of mine have read the manual.
 
Obviously the chestnut shetland mare in the field next to my lad whome of which I have handled many times has not read the manual either Tia!!!
 
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i know i dont think geldings are quite as bad but have their moments!! i own geldings not mares!!! their sooooo much more laid back!!!

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but if ALL chestnuts have 10000 more sensitivity whatsits, surely it should apply just as much to geldings?
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I think there is some truth in it as when we had our chestnut horses freeze marked the lady doing it said she had to leave the irons on for less time with a chestnut compared to any other colour.
 
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What a total load of tosh!

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PMSL!! Now I was trying to be diplomatic!!! But now you've started, I'll just baaa along too
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.... sorry Sophie, but whomever told you that rubbish is winding you up! 10,000 times more sensitive?? Can't be.
 
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I think there is some truth in it as when we had our chestnut horses freeze marked the lady doing it said she had to leave the irons on for less time with a chestnut compared to any other colour.

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Sure, the hair folicles may react faster - but 10,000 more nerve endings - if that was true you wouldn't be able to freezemark it at all!!!!
 
chestnuts have pink skins like greys, but because they have pigment in their coat,they mark to make the hair white through killing the pigmentation unlike greys which they make bald because of lack of any pigmentation.
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I know that, but they said if they left the irons on the same amount of time for a bay and chestnut horse, the bay would have white hairs the chestnut would be bald.
 
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any colour mare is more fiesty anyway, when you gently touch a chestnuts side it will flinch or react quicker!!!

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Are you for real?

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Because bays dont have pink skins, darker the skin I'm presuming the "tougher" they are!? Not sure on that though, but def has SOMETHING to do with the pink skin! Lol!
 
I think your friend may be getting a little confused between hair colour and skin colour. Was she thinking that horses/animals/people with light skin are slightly more sensitive to outside agents than horses/animals/people with dark skin?
 
It would only be bald because of the colour of skin though, not the colour of the hair. Not all chestnuts have light skin is what you have to remember, so therefore not all chestnuts would be sensitive.
 
she's a top NH lady so im not going to question what she says as ive been doing NH and it works alot better than all the normal methods of handling horses. its really interesting. i would reccomend everybody tries it. if all else fails at the end of it you will have a horse with bloody good manners!!!
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Well you really should question her. In fact you should ask her if she can direct you to the evidence that she is telling everyone as fact!
 
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