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Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: Penninehillbilly on July 15, 2013, 12:40:57 pm

Title: Horsetail (marestail?)
Post by: Penninehillbilly on July 15, 2013, 12:40:57 pm

Hi
reading a list of poisonous plants, it mentions horsetail, my goats eat it if they get chance, but I pull them away, could/should I let them eat it? (might help keep it down, it's got way out of hand)

Title: Re: Horsetail (marestail?)
Post by: sokel on July 15, 2013, 08:35:45 pm

Our horses try to eat it every chance they get and yes its toxic. Not sure about goats but it def is for horses

Title: Re: Horsetail (marestail?)
Post by: Pedwardine on July 15, 2013, 10:52:56 pm

Bad for sheep too so I imagine the same applies to goats.

Title: Re: Horsetail (marestail?)
Post by: fiestyredhead331 on July 15, 2013, 11:16:49 pm

I must have weird goats  :-\ they have (despite our best efforts) buttercups in the field, and bracken and horsetail around the place but they don't bother with it or have become immune? or maybe there are just better things to eat and they have become choosy? I don't know, but after buying just about every book on goat keeping they still surprise me