Re: Re: Eating green pine needles

["Kim Lemons" <klemons@wah.nu>]

I would have thought their instinct was better than that!  But when they
said they ate the wood chips that were toxic that contained that same plant
I wasn't so sure...I have a mare here that will eat anything standing still
if I let her...  Speaking of which, I think I need to get her collar back
on, she's eating me out of fence and pasture...<BG>  My husband informed me
that one whole 20 foot section of wooden fencing looks like a really big
termite has gotten to it.  (((Rosie who?!)))  :)



>    Kim - horses (ordinarily) will not voluntarily eat from toxic live
>plants---it is when they (the plants) are chopped up as in wood chips and
>lawn cuttings that the danger arises.    The exception would be - if the
>horses' pasture/whatever is so devoid of green stuff to eat that they start
>eating "anything green".   Example--don't put horses in a dry lot bordered
>by decorative yew, etc.
>
>Claudia
>Provin's Promises



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