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Title: Toxic Trees?
Post by: aboud on May 01, 2018, 12:29:18 pm

Afternoon All,

I have been offered some Silver Birch, Rowan and Hazel trees and I was wondering if any of these are toxic to any livestock?

Many thanks!

Title: Re: Toxic Trees?
Post by: pgkevet on May 01, 2018, 01:37:00 pm

You can collect and process silver birch sap to a sweetener so I doubt it's poisonous (and it;s soemtimes used to make wooden spoons etc) and there's plenty on my land that the sheep ignore anway. Hazel they love. Rowan might be toxic to livestock but whether they'd eat it i don't know. I've got some in my hedges but the berries tend to be out of reach.

Title: Re: Toxic Trees?
Post by: doganjo on May 01, 2018, 03:41:23 pm

I don't know if trees are listed here but it's quite useful anyway
http://poisonousplants.ansci.cornell.edu/comlist.html (http://poisonousplants.ansci.cornell.edu/comlist.html)

Title: Re: Toxic Trees?
Post by: Steph Hen on May 01, 2018, 05:58:25 pm

Fed all three to my goats.