Chestnuts on Legs......?

[domane]

I know this has been on here before but if I put chestnut in as a search I get all the posts to do with chestnut horses!!! :(

What's the easiest way of reducing the size of them? I'm sure someone said that if you soak them, they will just peel off? If so, what should I soak them in and for how long? Or is there another way. I supposed I could ask the farrier but I would like to know how I can deal with them myself. Cherry has one standard one on her off-hind and a mini-mountain on her near-hind :p

Thank you..... :)

[Wally]

Just clip them back with garden secateurs. Do it a bit at a time unti you are confident at how short to make them. I clip them back with hoof nippers.

[No_Angel]

get a hoof knife, there good for whipping them off:)

[domane]

Just clip them back with garden secateurs. Do it a bit at a time unti you are confident at how short to make them. I clip them back with hoof nippers.

OK. Secateurs? OMG!! I do have a decent pair of secateurs, being that OH is garden/turf by trade but..... she will stand as still as a rock..... but..... oh, I will have to be brave! Wally, you should see some of the haircuts I gave my kids when they were younger :eek:

Oo-er.

Can you sense I'm a little nervous about this.............?

[chickflick1066]

Apparantly if you wack on the vaseline, leave overnight then the next day they'll just peel off. My horse still has hers.

[michie]

A horse belong to a lady at my stables had a huge chestnut on his hind leg. I tried to peel it off and it wouldn't budge. I think the lady just had the ferrier do it. If he's out every 6 weeks, I can't imagine the chestnut getting that huge in that period of time.

[millie n pride]

I just pick Pride's off. Makes me feel sick tho :(

[domane]

Makes me feel sick tho :(

Yep, I think I'm there with you ..... and the thought of getting anywhere near with a blade.... well! :rolleyes: She's not in discomfort, it's just not easy on the eye.... the ergots have grown again too, nestling amongst all that feather where they think they can't be seen. I think I'll have a word in my farrier's ear... :)

Sorry for being such a wuss :o

[raggydoll]

vaseline smother em with it leave over night and they peel right off next morning. Makes me feel sick tho :p

[joey_olop]

I just pick mine off!!! When I first got Blackie he had some whoppers on his legs!!! I love picking them off its like picking a scab!!

[stormy's mum]

yup just pick them off i love picking them off why i dont know guess im a bit odd
lol

[domane]

yup just pick them off i love picking them off why i dont know guess im a bit odd
lol

You don't fancy a trip to Wiltshire do you??? :D

[Maddison's girl]

*sticks fingers in ears and shuts eyes tight* lalalalalalala cant see or hear *shivers* ewwwwwwwwwwwww puckey

[domane]

Or.....

..... give your OH "an important little job to do" ....... :D

(preferably when you are sitting at home, too far away to worry/see/hear, with your feet up in front of the tv with a beer! Role reversal or what!!!)

I can hear the conversation now.... "Hear you are hun... here's the secateurs.... off you pop...." :p

him: "You want me to WHAT?????" :eek:

[Maddison's girl]

hehehe I can see his face now :eek:

[Lovemyappy]

slather vaseline on them.. might take more then one time though if they are really big.. but they eventually will fall/peel off.

[WelshJumper]

I put hoof oil on them! Makes them soft enoff to peel off.

[tbtess]

I must just be totally lucky then cos i've never had to bother with my mare's, her chestnuts are tiny, at the moment they don't stick out at all. Thats not a bad thing i hope :o

[capalldubh]

Read this thread the other day and had a go at the giant one on mare's off hind last night with equivalent to hoof nippers from OH's tool kit. I didn't go down too far, just took the big wobbly top off. It was surprisingly easy, very soft, and mare didn't even **** an ear at me.

They're weird looking things inside, I have to say, possibly even weirder than the craggy outside appearance. THey look like horn, but very soft.

Thanks for posting the tips :-)

[Trewsers]

Why do you want to get rid of them?:confused:

[capalldubh]

Why do you want to get rid of them?

Don't know about everybody else, but simply because it had got so big and craggy that bits of the flick brush kept getting caught in it. Probably meant it was about to drop off of its own accord, but who can tell? It just looks more like the other three now.