How do you get these out!

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I've moved to a new yard that has (no idea what the actual name is) spiky weeds. About an inch across, round and get matted up in fur, stick to clothes etc. I've spent ages finding and removing these from my pony today. Anyone know an easier way? Pony has thick mane and coat so just been teasing them out and getting them stuck on me!

All you can eat Chinese at my favourite restaurant tonight for anyone who can help :D
 
Burs?

Easiest way, crop the ******* weeds down in the field :)


For getting them out the pony, I just pull and split the hair in two and slide them out. If you keep them coated in oil or silicon spray, makes it slightly harder to stick to also.
 
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horses like to eat them too :) i always called them sticky ball plant... very scientific ;) but to answer your question - i have no idea sorry! :o
 
Sticky ball plants is a good name!

I've never come across them before and they are pain in the bottom!

Ill give him a good coating of mane and tail spray tomorrow. x
 
If there's any around, horses are guaranteed to find them! I've never found an easy way - remove weeds as suggested, cut out or spend ages combing out.
 
I use to pull them apart but they go everywhere and you feel like there under your clothes.

39 in total - this little foal wouldn't stay away from them. Here his playing unicorn ned.

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We turned the show ponies away after hoys one year, when we bought the m&m back in he had found a rouge bur plant and matted his mane and forelock! It took days to tease them out with baby oil and coat shine, we paid for it all season with judges asking why on earth had we pulled an m&m mane, we hadn't he did!
 
I wet the hair slightly with a sponge then run baby oil through with my hands, leave it a few mins then they come apart quite easily but the little bits can make splinters in your hands and generally stick all over everything!

My haffy loves eating stuff like that! Some people cut them out :-O she'd have no mane left!

The plants are reeeally hard to dig up too so I tend to stomp on them and try to break the stems over a week or so!
 
From vast experience of these pesky things the easiest way is not to let them get in, in the first place, after years of getting them out of shetland and Fells full manes and tails. Took me ages to realise this, but I am not the quickest starter off the blocks. It hurts when they break up and spike your fingers - bit like loft insulation if you touch it without gloves. I now go round the croft they still appear in ,despite spraying, with secateurs and a knife before they get ripe. I think they are a type of dock plant.

DosyMare - wot a brilliant picture of your foal.
 
Another vote for baby oil all the way.

It will get out the worst mess you can imagine (that forelock pictured would be 5 minutes work)

Just soak and work through, easy.
 
When mine gets these in his mane and forelock I call it his walnut whip hairdo! I pick them out with my fingers (the buds stick to them too) then brush through with wide toothed brush. Need some grass, then the horses won't bother with them
 
baby oil or pig oil
soak, comb/tease out the next day :) i know it looks a hopeless task,but start and the bottom of the hair,it is do-able.
 
Burs (Burdock) Luckily I don't have them in the field but they are on the bridleway where I ride. My cob mare with a bit of feather stamps madly when they get tangled so I have to get off, pull them out, then carry on.
Yuk - makes me think of Dandelion and Burdock drink.
 
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