Re: Weird Plants.
Originally Posted by
Tiffany
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It grows everywhere, Glanny wild. Most roadside verges have it & it loves pasture. When I was with horses, we used to spend hours quartering the fields & digging it up. It is deadly to most animals if they eat it, but most won't touch it, unless the pasture is bare of anything else, but
if it gets into meadow hay it's likely to be eaten then & the horse will most likely die. I have seen a horse poisoned by ragwort & it wasn't pretty.
Yes, I agree Tiff, dangerous when baled up in hay.
Yew is another one that is very poisonous isn't it.
I remember years ago my old horse was kept in a field next to the cemetery.
There were Yew trees from the cemetery overhanging the fence, and my vet at the time said the Parish council by law have to get it cut back if Yew gets near land where livestock is grazing.
He told me a horse in the next village had just died with the stuff still in it's mouth even!