Speaking of Acorns Help!!!

[Potato!]

I had the contractors fixing my fencing yesterday. They cut some branches to the small oak tree in order to get the new posts in and I didn’t notice that they has shoved the branches complete with acorns over the fence and onto the bank but within reaching distance of the horses. I popped up at lunchtime and my mare had stripped one of the branches of leaves and acorns :0 I’m now really worried about her now. What are the symptoms of Acorn poisoning.

I have now removed the branches from behind the fence and electric fenced it off so they can’t get near it until I can get it taken away.

 

[Potato!]

Anybody?

 

[Meowy Catkin]

Ring the Vet and ask for their advice.

 

[dogcalleddill]

My mare has been colicking on and off for the last two days and the vets think it could be acorns. Several other horses though are unaffected.

 

[Joyous70]

My boy has a taste for acorns unfortunately many years ago he collicked, vet did say it was due to eating acorns.

He made a full recovery and is still with me now into his mid twenties. I just make sure there are non around for him to eat now, im lucky there are no acorn trees over his grazing paddock.

ETA: When i informed YO that he had eaten acorns from the field & that they were poisonous to horses her reply was "well he's the only one daft enough to eat them" i soon left the yard