[blackbelly] Showy Crotalaria
Okay I thought I would provide a link for you all to check out-- as a friend in Ms raises goats, and a neighbor of hers had a goat just DIE-- and this plant was in the pasture, recently browsed. I am sending to both the consortium and Blackbelly list because I thought I had seen wehre a young ram that had been available for sale died suddenly, and it hit me that the general locale was about right. www.ppws.vt.edu/scott/weed_id/cvtsp.htm also: www.lsuagcenter.com/en/crops_livestock/livestock/animal_health/horses/Horses+Poisoned+by+Showy+Crotalaria.html if this plant is out there in your pastures, it could explain some sudden deaths. Please, look for it. No one wants to lose a baby of ANY age to something that can be eliminated from the pastures. Terry W ___ This message is from the blackbelly mailing list Visit the list's homepage at %http://www.blackbellysheep.info
Re: [blackbelly] Showy Crotalaria
Here in Tennessee we call that stuff Milkweed. If you break the branches a sappy, white fluid will emerge. It looks like milk and stinks like the dickens!! unfortunatly it is everywhere at our place! The books do claim that it is poisonous. The sheep will pick around on the VERY young leaves at the first of the season--probably because they long for anything green. But mine will NOT eat it once it gets about 5 inches tall. It gets very tall and 1 plant will bush out alot. It provides shade in the hot summer months. BUT, you have got to cut that stuff before the seeds get mature--if you don't it spreads like WILDFIRE. We actually get in there and cut it with a reap-hook, and throw it out of the field. Just my two cents worth. www.ppws.vt.edu/scott/weed_id/cvtsp.htm also: www.lsuagcenter.com/en/crops_livestock/livestock/animal_health/horses/Ho rses+Poisoned+by+Showy+Crotalaria.html if this plant is out there in your pastures, it could explain some sudden deaths. Please, look for it. No one wants to lose a baby of ANY age to something that can be eliminated from the pastures. Terry W ___ This message is from the blackbelly mailing list Visit the list's homepage at %http://www.blackbellysheep.info ___ This message is from the blackbelly mailing list Visit the list's homepage at %http://www.blackbellysheep.info
