Horses chestnuts

[Aidey]

My 16.2 chunky warmbloods chestnuts are absolutely tiny!

The ones on her front legs are about 1/2 an inch and the ones on her hind legs are about the size of a garden pea! If not smaller! She is blanket spot.

Is this ANOTHER 'appy thing'? like the no growing of mane or tail

Also at the back of her fetlock joint where they usually have chestnuts here as well .. she doesn't have any at all!

But I love her anyway with or without her chestnuts

I also have a 14h LW cob mare whose chestnuts are HUGE and extremely hard, you need a hammer and chisel to get hers off

So yeah, is it another appy thing?

 

[MiCsarah]

I'm sure there is somebody on here who was asking a few weeks ago about chesnuts. I dont think their horse had any on the front but had them behind. It sounds like ti could be quite common

 

[Miss L Toe]

My boy has fronts and none behind, he is Trotter x not a common type,, I seem to think chestnuts tend to be bigger on cobs and other cold bloods.
He is a tiny part Andalusian, and has a lot of mane and tail

 

[Aidey]

Ah sorry if this thread has been done recently I haven't seen it.

Just thought she was a little strange not having some, nice to know she isn't the only one lol

 

[POLLDARK]

The growth on the fetlock is called an Ergot not a chestnut, useless info I know.

 

[Archangel]

It shows her quality Nothing to worry about at all.
My arabs have tiny neat chestnuts, miniscule ergots and thin docks, the chunky cobby lad has ergots that go round like ram's horns if you let them and dreadful coarse chestnuts and a dock like a slab (he is very cute though).