RE: Re: red maple / now OAK

["C Eyler" <eyler@mindspring.com>]

<snip> horses are
rarely affected (likely due to a unwillingness to consume oak).

<snip>

PREVENTION: Oak toxicosis is easily preventable with proper livestock and
pasture management. Animals tend to eat oak only out of necessity,
therefore by providing adequate and nutritious feed in the spring when the
oak leaves bud out and again in the fall when leaves and acorns drop, the
incidence of toxicosis should be minimized or eliminated.

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My well-fed gelding thinks that acorns are candy...much more appetizing than
hay or grass.  He doesn't have access to a whole lot of them (trees are on
the adjoining property), but while they last he's in heaven.

Cindy Eyler
Baltimore


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