Unusually long hair

[Bushwhacker]

I went out tracking yesterday and found a hair on a barbed wire fence next to a small woodland and patch of marsh.

It's about a foot in length, wirey, ginger/brown in colour.

There are lots of Roe Deer in the area and this was found at a point where they jump over the fence.

I just cant fathom out what part of the body this hair came from. There are no horses or livestock in this area so it must be a wild animal.

It is definitely a hair, and not part of a plant or string as I first thought, because it gave off that stench when I put my lighter to it.

Any ideas?

 

[y0dsa]

Wild pony, perhaps?

 

[Bushwhacker]

No wild ponies around here, this is in West Dorset.
I also thought it could be a hair from a horses mane, but nobody rides horses in that part as it's private land.

 

[Cobweb]

Wayland's Beard!

 

[BigShot]

Are you sure it wasn't person-hair?

 

[Bushwhacker]

Are you sure it wasn't person-hair?

Absolutely, it was far too coarse - almost like fishing line.

 

[BigShot]

Could have been a surfer.

 

[Shewie]

I can only think of two possibles, a long coated cow or a horse tail or main hair ?

Can`t think of anything else with hair that long

 

[Shewie]

What about HFW, that`s his neck of the woods isn`t it ?

 

[monkey boy]

its a bigfoot

 

[Toddy]

Have to say it sounds like Highland cow tbh but a foot long is pushing it even for them. The only three things with hair that long normally are humans, ponies, and I was going to say dogs like red setters, but they're like the cows, not quite that long.
No idea........interesting to hear what it is though.

cheers,
Toddy

 

[Klenchblaize]

A lucky find and no question as to the owner:

I should go back NOW and lay your trap!

Cheers!

 

[Shewie]

A lucky find and no question as to the owner:

I should go back NOW and lay your trap!

Cheers!

Is that Carol Decker or whatever she was called ? T`pau ?

 

[Klenchblaize]

Is that Carol Decker or whatever she was called ? T`pau ?

Haven't a clue mate but no close season as far as I can tell!

Cheers

 

[OldFingersGreen]

sounds like a highland cow to me, few of them round here they have long, very wiry, gingerish hair that is very course.

 

[inthewids]

Maybe Fergie was out for a walk?

 

[firecrest]

Have to say it sounds like Highland cow tbh but a foot long is pushing it even for them. The only three things with hair that long normally are humans, ponies, and I was going to say dogs like red setters, but they're like the cows, not quite that long.
No idea........interesting to hear what it is though.

cheers,
Toddy

would that be one of them "heery coos" then

 

[xylaria]

Could a fox hunt of rode through. They tend to keep to private land, and unlike trekking can go pretty off road.