The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: ewesaidit on July 10, 2016, 07:34:06 pm
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Ive noticed some brown mushrooms dotted around one of my fields tonight - could this cause any problems for sheep? They are dark brown some smaller and domed and some larger with flat tops. Brown gills underneath. Some of the larger flat topped ones have a small blackish dot in the centre.
Can anyone advise please
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Some of my fields have hundreds , yellow/ orange /brown/white only things that seem to eat them are slugs
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Our tups have normal mushrooms in their field and they do eat them with no ill effect. For the ones in your sheep field, I would get a proper ID just in case they are the magic variety or actually poisonous. I wonder how sheep would act after eating too many magic mushrooms :thinking:
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We have thousands of 'em on the farm and no way to control them as they just come up overnight. An indicator that our ground is nutrient-rich ancient pasture cut from the woodland of 900+ years ago. The slugs eat the field mushrooms, summer boletes and giant puffballs and the rest appear to be ignored.
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Thanks folks. Did a bit of googling last night but couldn't find one exactly the same.
Where does one go to get an expert opinion on a mushroom?!
A couple of the lambs sometimes behave like they're on magic mushrooms right enough :D
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In France you take them to the pharmacy but I have no idea for here. You'd need to find a mycologist? There's bound to be an online website/forum for fungi lovers.
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Thanks fleecewife