Conifers

[mangobiscuit]

Are conifers poisonous when eating by horses?

I have heard from some people that they are, and some that they aren't......

My horse is now in a field with 2 other horses and it has a line of short conifers in it. My horse and one other literally stand there grazing on these trees for ages (until i shoo him away!)

Advice??

x

 

[Ecila]

I didn't think they were, i don't know for certain!! Not something you hear about being poisenus are they.....

 

[mangobiscuit]

No - well the amount that he has consumed I bloomin hope not!!!

Apart from the poison risk - he's making a beautiful shape out of them........

Very artistic is my Finnian.....

 

[Agent XXX999]

http://www.equine-world.co.uk/horses_care/poisonous.htm

FYI!

I think we should go hacking! (and maybe stop at a pub!)

 

[showjump2003]

I thought they were? Probibly wrong.

 

[Agent XXX999]

BTW MG posted pics of my boy on Photogallery...you are going to know who I am now when we pass in Waitrose!

 

[Kate_13]

I thought they were too, but my lot used to eat them as I was surrounded by them. It hasn't done them any harm.

 

[mangobiscuit]

Ooooo so do I!!

I know a pub that's half way....wonder if we could rope some kind people into coming and holding the neddies whilst we get some drinks

x

 

[mangobiscuit]

Haha - ok gone to have a nose in the pics.......

I probably will recognise you

 

[izzyxxx]

something i read said in the winter it is a nice change for horses to be given conifers insted of hay so i wasn't to worried as mine was munching away at a conifer but a friend told me that it is very poisonous and that they had known horses to die from eating them so i really have no idea!!!hope not cuz after they said that i fenced it off but she has demolished half the tree!!

 

[Clodagh]

My pony - gone now - nearly died after eating conifers. She went blind and fitted. She was in a starvation paddock cos of lami and munched on loads of them.

 

[mangobiscuit]

Oh gosh!??

SOrry to hear that!

This is what I mean about all the mixed opinions on the status of conifers being poisonous..........

 

[Parkranger]

I don't know that greedy boy of yours!

ty just stands there watching them!

Babe, we'll get the leccy fencing and fence them off....... x