The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Cattle => Topic started by: YorkshireLass on September 13, 2017, 07:45:44 pm
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Fencing a new field, noticed a neighbour's laburnum tree overhanging. Obviously it's all poisonous, but how palatable is it? We will have a legal right to trim back the overhanging branches, but is it something we should think about moving the fence away from (out of reach)? Thinking of seeds dropping into grass / hay...
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Our cattle regularly from back the laburnum trees in a neighbouring garden. They've been there 30 years now and no ill affects
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Mmm that's interesting.
I generally go with "if there is enough food, they know not to eat poisonous stuff", but that sort of nuance is lacking in general info.
I reckon we see where the fenceline naturally falls then trim back the really overhanging bits?
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Sorry I was dreaming when i read and wrote that message. I was thinking leylandi not laburnum :innocent: :thinking:
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OH
Oops :D
Yeah I mean the very pretty yellow flowered thingy.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Laburnum_anagyroides_flowering.jpg/220px-Laburnum_anagyroides_flowering.jpg