Warning - The Perils of Flea Darts/Grass Seeds

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Yesterday morning noticed my horse having a bit of trouble eating, not too bad but dropping bits which she normally doesn't do (she had dentist about 8 weeks ago), then last night seemed a bit worse, kept opening mouth and making funny faces whilst trying to eat, so phoned dentist and explained, he said he would come down Monday (today) afternoon, so this morning hubby fed her and said she didn't eat her brekkie looked really uncomfortable and a little depressed which really worried me, anyhoo long story short dentist came and when he looked/felt couldn't feel any probs with teeth but when he lifted her tongue she had a fistful of flea darts wedged underneath her tonge in the groove where her tongue joins the mouth, he got them all out and rinsed her mouth then had another look, poor thing her tongue is all sore where they must have been scratching and digging in, gave her a bute in her dinner tonight which she scoffed down like nothing was wrong, he said he's seen more cases of this in the last few weeks than he's seen in many years, and what a great dentist he is, he travels about 20 miles to my yard and came at the drop of a hat and didnt want to charge me a penny cause i'm a regular, what a lovely bloke, I did insist that he took £20 though even if it just covered his diesel, and that was a struggle trying to get him to take that.
 
 
Oh I see, I thought by the title that you meant those but didn't want to look silly! Must have been horribly uncomfortable, poor mare! I'm glad we still have very short grass in our fields, stops things like that happening, for the most part. Horses seem to have an uncanny knack of hurting themselves doing the most mundane activities (eating!)
 
We spend all of our time field proofing the paddocks and don't think about something like this happening! Thankyou for making me more vigilant and hope horseys ok x
 
Thanks for that
I had not heard of it
Googling it sounds like an ornamental garden grass which has escaped into the country.

I have Himalyan Balsam, the dry seed pods explode when touched so try to cut/pull it all before it goes to seed--worried horses could get eye damage.
 
I actually don't have these growing in my field, my grass is pretty short so they would notice easily, they came from a new large round bale of hay which i recently sourced from a different supplier to normal, my other 2 horses eating the same hay were fine though, dentist checked them both just incase. So that's three quarters of a large round bale that i won't be feeding now, not risking that happening again, have opened a new one tonight and it doesn't have any in so must have been cut from a different field.
 
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