NF Ponies and acorns

[Penny Less]

Have you seen the article in the DM (yes I know some of you secretly read it) ponies dying after eating acorns.

 

[carthorse]

They used to put pigs on the forest to eat the acorns. Wonder if they still do. Poor ponies

 

[Hoopsa]

The pigs are out and, because there are so many acorns, the pannage season (when pigs allowed on the Forest) has been extended by six weeks until the middle of December.

 

[Sprout]

The pigs still go out in some areas, but there is such a huge amount of acorns it has been a real problem this year.

 

[LauraWheeler]

I think another problem this year was the storm. It bought down huge trees near us and lots of branches. The ponies were feasting on the leaves and acorns in the morning, I chased them off as I left for work, But in the afternoon while out riding I came across one of them dead We have loads of pigs in our area to but there are just to many acorns for them to hover up

 

[Dubsie]

Is a huge problem just the sheer volume of acorns, I have shovelled heaps from just one tree because our NF has a real taste for them - and he's fenced off from it too, that's just the ones that have blown his side.