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rosie
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 England
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 Posted - 11 Apr 2009 : 6:06:02 PM
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Grooming Rosie this afternoon, & as fast as the hair was coming out, 2 crows were picking it up & flying off with it.
Walking away from the field we then saw the 2 crows, with Rosie's hair in their beaks dropping it into a newly built nest.
What a lovely thought, that in time to come, crows will be hatching out into a lovely nest lined with Rosies grey hair!  
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garnet
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Posted - 11 Apr 2009 : 6:25:58 PM
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| We have nests like chandeliers where the swallows stick in bits from Taggart's huge white mane and tail. (He is Garnet's boyfriend.) She is providing enough moult for the whole county to have a mansion! |
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Grey Girl
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England
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Posted - 11 Apr 2009 : 7:01:29 PM
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| I find it's the housesparrows who grab horse fur first. In fact, this year, I think they took all that I put out. We have some many little birds nesting again in our garden, it's great! |
 Said the little eohippus, "I´m going to be a HORSE"  |
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jillandlomond
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Scotland
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Posted - 11 Apr 2009 : 7:25:51 PM
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Snap Lisa! I too was grooming my very hairy grey Polish gelding, Lomond this afternoon, and the birds were having a ball! |
    
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Karon
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England
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Posted - 11 Apr 2009 : 7:51:16 PM
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| I was watching 2 sparrows taking balls of horse hair for their nests this morning Some of the lumps of fur (from my grooming) were bigger than the sparrows! |
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gossy
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England
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Posted - 11 Apr 2009 : 8:56:51 PM
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| Its the jackdaws down our way, always love you to groom in the field so they can grab the fur, they will have nice warm baby chicks,in nice soft nests. |
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tamila
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England
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Posted - 12 Apr 2009 : 07:24:46 AM
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| I groomed out mountains of grey hair from my two oldies and the birds lined up on the fence to wait for me to finish. By the evening practically all of it had gone. They seem to kmow about this every year. |
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croftys
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England
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Posted - 12 Apr 2009 : 09:29:56 AM
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| We have a hairy shetland here on livery and the birds land on him and help themselves to his loose hair!! |
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nicolanapper
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England
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Posted - 12 Apr 2009 : 1:25:57 PM
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It was such a lovely day yesterday, and I was grooming my two girlies with my daughter. As fast as the hair fell to the gound the birds were picking it up. When I take their rugs off first thing every morning at the moment, they roll and the birds all swoop down on the fur left behind on the ground. It is lovely to see. In fact my daughter pointed out to me that she saw two birds flying into the eves of our house, with grey horse fur in their beaks!
It is so lovely to see this,
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Mrs Vlacq
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Wales
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Posted - 12 Apr 2009 : 1:54:10 PM
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ALl gets collected and put on back edge of muckheap and the birdies take whichever colour they like!  |
    
- V Khazad - V Calacirya & V Sulime - Quarida(L) - V Boogie Knights - V Hamra Tofiq |
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bexr
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England
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Posted - 12 Apr 2009 : 9:44:46 PM
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| A few years ago, a neighbour came rushing over saying we had a dead horse in the field, and the jackdaws were eating him. So in a panic I rushed round the corner to the field, to find my OH cob, laid flat out in the sun, with the jackdaws pulling loose fur off him. Far from dead, just liked the feeling and the sunshine. He was most miffed, when I made him get up and checked him over, and grumply wondered off to eat grass. The neighbour couldn't believe a horse would let the birds do that to him. |
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gossy
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England
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Roseanne
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 12 Apr 2009 : 10:40:46 PM
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| We've found some beautiful nests in the past, lined with lovely soft horse hair. One year someone left a haynet in the trailer. We used the lorry and when someone next went to the trailer, there was this beautiful nest, made perfectly in the hay of the net, with green moss and thickly lined with Shalkar's white fur. The kids took the (empty) nest to school to show the class. |
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