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melholly

  • Joined Oct 2010
  • East Sussex
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Ragwort
« on: August 14, 2011, 06:05:54 pm »
Quick Q to all you knowledgables out there, is ragwort at all poisonous to ducks? I'm not a lazy so and so - did try googling but couldn't find a non-horse related search result!

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northfifeduckling

  • Joined Jan 2009
  • Fife
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Re: Ragwort
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2011, 06:45:55 pm »
I wondered about the same - or for chickens?
I pulled them up anyway... :&>

jaykay

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Cumbria/N Yorks border
Re: Ragwort
« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2011, 06:49:32 pm »
Backyard chicken forum had a thread about a hen who'd been poisoned by eating ragwort  :(

Since it causes liver damage and we've all got livers, I would have thought it was poisonous to most living things, ducks included (cinnabar caterpillars not, obviously).

I pull the horrid stuff up too, but you should wear gloves and then burn it  >:(

Hopewell

  • Joined Apr 2011
Re: Ragwort
« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2011, 07:57:11 pm »
Other than Cinnabar caterpillars I would imagine ragwort is poisonous to anything that eats it. It is more likely to be eaten by mammals when dried in hay but I would imagine chickens would be more likely to peck at it when its fresh. It's affect is not immediate usually and gradually builds up over time causing liver failure.

 

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