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> > > This woman that owned 
a boarding stable got shavings with black walnut and even though people told 
her after the first horse foundered not to use it, she continued >>>to do 
so.... sad very sad.

I get rough cut sawdust from a neighbor with a sawmill. He also has horses. I 
asked him if he ever cut walnut and he said, "No." He usually cut oak, pine and 
cedar. He assured me that if he ever cut walnut he'd warn me. He had never 
heard of walnut being a problem and didn't seem to believe me. 

Then one day I was shoveling up a load and noticed a dark wood and remembered 
the odor of it from when I made a walnut book stand in my high school woodshop 
class. I called him and asked and and he said, "Oh yeah, I did cut a walnut 
tree". I don't know the difference in black walnut or regular walnut but in 
order to be able to use his sawdust in the future I shoveled up 2 loads of 
walnut and took them to my dog & chicken pen. (big time farmer, 3 chickens)Just 
to get it away from the pile.

Moral is, don't trust them to warn you if they ever cut different types. They 
just don't worry about such things.

Angie

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