Tezzy
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This year loads of cowslips have cover the field. Are they safe if the horses eat them at all?
Cowslips!
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Tezzy
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I have just found a web site with a list of poisonous plants for hosers. The cowslip is on there 
The whole field as just shot up with a sea of yellow.
The whole field as just shot up with a sea of yellow.
Ravenwood
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"Why did the Bull Rush? Because the Cow Slipped" Boom Boom 
Sorry, on a more serious note - are you sure they are cowslips? they are not very common anymore in Britain?
Can you show me the link where it classifies them as poisonous? I was pretty sure they are not - infact I know they were used as a herbal remedy or wine as the following quote.........
Cuisine
Cowslip leaves have been traditionally used in Spanish cooking as a salad green. Uses in English cookery includes using the flowers to flavour country wine and vinegars; sugared to be a sweet or eaten as part of a composed salad while the juice of the cowslip is used to prepare tansy for frying. The close cousin of the cowslip, the primrose (P. vulgaris), has often been confused with the cowslip and its uses in cuisine are similar with the addition of its flowers being used as a colouring agent in desserts.
Sorry, on a more serious note - are you sure they are cowslips? they are not very common anymore in Britain?
Can you show me the link where it classifies them as poisonous? I was pretty sure they are not - infact I know they were used as a herbal remedy or wine as the following quote.........
Cuisine
Cowslip leaves have been traditionally used in Spanish cooking as a salad green. Uses in English cookery includes using the flowers to flavour country wine and vinegars; sugared to be a sweet or eaten as part of a composed salad while the juice of the cowslip is used to prepare tansy for frying. The close cousin of the cowslip, the primrose (P. vulgaris), has often been confused with the cowslip and its uses in cuisine are similar with the addition of its flowers being used as a colouring agent in desserts.
Tezzy
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Hi Revanwood, You made me laughed when I read your post
I was seaching the net last night & came across this link http://www.tinyhoovesrescue.org/poisonous_plants.htm
I love cowslips. I used to have lots in the other house where I lived. Today they are hard to find as you say, they aren't common any more.
In all the years I have been at this field, there as never been any cowslips at all. This year mine & everyones field are covered in them. It looks beautiful when you drive up to the fields. I will phone the vet on Tuesday & ask them. I don't know what I am going to do if they are poisonous. It is a 18 acre field & they are all over it.
Sorry forgot to say, the plant is named, Marsh Maarigold: Cowslip on the web page. They have miss spelted the name putting an extra A in Marigold.
I was seaching the net last night & came across this link http://www.tinyhoovesrescue.org/poisonous_plants.htm
I love cowslips. I used to have lots in the other house where I lived. Today they are hard to find as you say, they aren't common any more.
In all the years I have been at this field, there as never been any cowslips at all. This year mine & everyones field are covered in them. It looks beautiful when you drive up to the fields. I will phone the vet on Tuesday & ask them. I don't know what I am going to do if they are poisonous. It is a 18 acre field & they are all over it.
Sorry forgot to say, the plant is named, Marsh Maarigold: Cowslip on the web page. They have miss spelted the name putting an extra A in Marigold.
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spider
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That is rather confusing. When they have put two names together it looks like they are alternative names for the same plant. However Marsh marigold is a shiney yellow flower like a buttercup and cowslip is more like a primrose. Never heard of either being poisonous. More likely that marsh marigold is as buttercups can hve bad effects on some horses.