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Date Posted: 04:30:21 11/24/01 Sat
Author: Beverly
Subject: Chestnuts roasting on an open fire...

Seasons Greetings, and a question for all sciuridae fanciers - does anyone give their squirrels chestnuts (stupidmarket supply)? If so, do you roast them first, to reduce the tannin? Seems a squirrel would be most unlikely to roast them, in the wild, but I find no definitive source that indicates whether squirrels eat them, either. Some sources indicate toxicity for horses in the buckeye (horse) chestnut (Ohio's state tree, I believe.) One paper, however, indicates the fellow with a horse chestnut in one of his cattle paddocks must rush to beat the "whoppers" to the chestnuts, or they eat them, first, and he doesn't get as many for himself. He says he's never lost a member of the herd to any chestnut - related illness, and indeed, was considering naming one of his beef coos (that's Scot for cows) "Huge Hefner" because the cow so enjoyed the chestnuts! (All right, all right. So I made up the part about naming his beef cow "Huge Hefner." It cudda happened, that way...)

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