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FinkleyAlex

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Hi all - I went for lunch today at a farm near me which has a donkey grazing in a small paddock (size-wise its the size of a lammi type paddock). The paddock is completely overrun by hemlock which has come up quite high - at points the donkey is almost hidden behind it and there is virtually no grass between the hemlock. I wasn't sure if hemlock was as poisonous to donkeys as it is to horses but the ever wise Google says it is. I'm not usually the interfering type but I can't let this donkey graze in a paddock with virtually nothing but poisonous hemlock for him, who should I be calling about it?
 
Gosh they do look similar - the only thing is that hemlock seems to grow higher than cow parsley and it was quite high? Maybe I should try and take a photo of it next time I pass.
 
Part of my field is covered in cow parsley and I had a right panic thinking it was hemlock but turns out not to be thank goodness but it's quite tall, so tall I loose my Shetland and half my cob if there stood among it, it seems to have suddenly sprouted from no where!!
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