Grazing muzzel to stop horse eating acorns??

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I was told this morning by the girl i share a field with, that my yearling Boots has been eating the acorns which have fallen in to our field.

I dont know how much shes eaten, i havnt seen her eating any myself but im now worried. The field owner said when enough have fallen off the tree its easist to sweep them in to a pile and then remove them from the field, but im worried about in the mean time my horse eating them.

The field owner wont let me fence this area off. I went to sweep them up today but they have fallen in to long grass and there isnt actually that many that i can see. Without spending all day on my hands and knees looking for them i'd proably only manage to pick up 4 handfulls in about an hour.

So how worried should i be?!?! Is there anything else i can do? I dont want to reduce Boots' grass intake but i wonderd about a grazing muzzel? just untill most of them have fallen off the tree and i can then pick them up easier.

Also is there anything i can feed to her to try an reduce the chance of any problems relating to the intake of acorns in the future?
 
I would be moving yards if the YO wouldnt let me fence my horse off from something so poisonous.

No idea about the muzzle though. xxxx
 
flamehead said:
I would be moving yards if the YO wouldnt let me fence my horse off from something so poisonous.
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Yeh i am really annoyed about it as a horse there last year died from it but there isnt any other yards to move to, I have just moved from a farm because they kept letting my horse out of its field :@
 
Mow the area to make it easier to sweep up, know the problem you have with picking them up! Had to pick up a bucketfull a day from a field of a horse i was looking after! Took me hours!!!! :(
 
I think i might just have to spent all day tomorrow picking them up then, only thing is that its not jsut one day picking them up as more will come down.

So no one thinks that a grazing muzzel will prevent her from eating them?
 
It's worth a try - I'd give a grazing muzzle a go.

Or try raking them into a pile to make them easier to pick up, or borrow an old fashioned metal roller and maybe roll them into the ground/pulp. Not tried this one myself but just thinking of other solutions! Or can you drive into the field every day and drive over that area and muller them that way?
 
ooooo i could drive in to the field i guess, might beable to find a roller too. Its just while theres not enough on the ground to rake/sweep them up easily.
 
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