On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Virginia Tupper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my newly fenced pasture buttercups are blooming everywhere! > > I'm sure I read that they're a poisonous plant for horses and there > are too many to hand pick. I'm afraid to use pesticides and poison > the horses. I picked a few handfuls but there's so many. Could hubby > mow and solve the problem? Is it the flower or the whole plant that > isn't good? > V
They are poisonous but a horse would have to be starving before they would eat them - they are very bitter tasting. I have seen many a pasture with horses and buttercups and no problems. -- Laree in NC Doppa & Mura Simon, Sadie and Sam (the "S" gang) "Yet when all the books have been read and reread, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them." - William Farley "I ride ponies because heart is not measured in hands." - Steve Edwards
