sticky balls!

[nat_1]

Lol! Nice title
Every day for the last couple of weeks ive been picking out those small sticky/spikey balls from the hedgerows put of my yearlings main,forelock n tail!
What are they?
Anyoneone else been having to pull and untangle these from manes etc?
She looks like a punkrocker everyday till i sort her out lol!

 

[becca1305]

I think its off a plant called "stickyweed" funnily enough! Im sure it has a posh name though! Its green and the plant itself is kind of weirdly sticky made up of separate stems with small leaves and about 1 foot tall maybe. The cats often come back from playing in the copse with them stuck in their tail and fur, but no problems with the horses yet!

 

[GingerTrotter]

its called a far worse name in Scotland - - - - StickyWilly
No joke! it actually is

 

[ThePony]

if they are very small and green are they sticky willy? http://www.dgsgardening.btinternet.co.uk/cleavers.htm
or if larger, brown and with loads of hooks on are they burs? http://www.sciencephoto.com/media/33989/enlarge

 

[mudmonkey17]

Used to have same problem with horse I rode. Took hours to get them all out ruined his tail aswell.

 

[GingerTrotter]

if they are very small and green are they sticky willy? http://www.dgsgardening.btinternet.co.uk/cleavers.htm
or if larger, brown and with loads of hooks on are they burs? http://www.sciencephoto.com/media/33989/enlarge

Small and green = sticky willy

 

[Allie5]

Yep sticky willies! Right pain the backside to get out of a standard poodles coat when she's been rooting in the bushes!!

 

[Gluttonforpunishment]

Yup - have spent the last couple of weeks pulling them out of my mares mane.

Have found Canter mane and tail does help stop them sticking quite so much.

Worst though is when hubby returns from shooting with his Clumber spaniel's belly and leg fur covered in burrs and sticky balls.

Not sure why I get the job of grooming them out. Luckily said pooch is very content to spend an hour being loved and pampered!

 

[Daisy11]

Yes defently called them
, I have a tree in my field that has them mane and tail gets full of them
I found a trick of using baby oil for them

 

[Hoofprints in the Snow]

Cut them down before the balls appear, then chop up and dry slowly. I do this with nettles and hawthorn leaves. Mix together and then you have the base of hedge herbs I also add dried rose hips and dried mint. Add a little to the feed over winter its only what nature provides and that they would eat themselves if they had access if free to roam.
Meant to say they are called cleavers or clivers.

 

[Borderreiver]

Just to add that this plant is very good for your horse. I gather them from the hedgerows to give to my mare who loves them. She had a major liver problem last winter and they are very good for the liver apparently, so don't curse them, use them!

 

[superted1989]

Markie decided to trip the light fantastic into a load of bushes the other day whilst hacking. Back at the yard, his feathers were totally full of burrs, took ages to get them out!

 

[nat_1]

Ohh glad im not the only one then lol.its the larger light brown ones,about 1cm diameter.
God she gets in a right tangle with them,i must pick out 20-30 a day.im not sure where they are along the hedgerow,think its everywhere,too much for yo to go and cut down in a 22 acre.