Your to much -- for the love of squirrels

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Date Posted: 06:30:22 11/24/01 Sat
Author: RR
Subject: Your to much
In reply to: Beverly 's message, "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire..." on 04:30:21 11/24/01 Sat

I would call a vet and ask them. the problem with chestnuts is there is so many dif kinds. If your unsure call the vet and ask them.

>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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