AlinFaolan
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Anyone had health issues with horses eating holly?
Eating Holly.
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The Fuzzy Furry
Living in 🦄 🦄 land
Squits.
I've found it was youngsters or dieters who would rummage in the Holly, often ending up with the squits. Try and fence it off if you can.
I've got holly in the hedging of 2 paddocks and *touch wood* none of the current fuzzies has a taste for it, but in the past it has only been eaten in the depths of winter.
I've found it was youngsters or dieters who would rummage in the Holly, often ending up with the squits. Try and fence it off if you can.
I've got holly in the hedging of 2 paddocks and *touch wood* none of the current fuzzies has a taste for it, but in the past it has only been eaten in the depths of winter.
Carrottom
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I have seen mine have a nibble on it with no visible effects. It forms the best wind break in the hedge.
AlinFaolan
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It's the other lad out with mine, I did another post regarding him being unwell, off his food etc. He's had one lot of steroids, just about to start another course, just trying to work out what might be coursing it and there is Holly in their field that they have been seen nibbling.
Peregrine Falcon
Hoping for drier days
Forest ponies hear chainsaws and follow the sound. It is a good source of protein.
PurBee
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My mouthy gelding nibbles it but the sensible mare doesnt touch anything other than grass, hay, willow trees and gorse flowers, even when hungry...incredible.
My gelding didnt ever have loads of it though, a lot of times its the amount the horse has that can cause reaction and severe toxicity rather than the plant itself being toxic with just a few nibbles. Very few plants keel a horse over with just a few nibbles, except for the real baddies like yew trees.
Even oak leaves the gelding has nibbled a few here and there, just never enough of it to cause problems.
I did cut back the ivy to just limit his ability to get at loads of the holly.
Deer completely stripped a holly tree i felled and left on the ground in a few nights...they love eating holly in the winter.
Holly is indigenous here so grows everywhere, a magnificient tree, im amazed such a waxy evergreen is palatable to some horses.
Thankfully horses are not interested in wild mushrooms, plenty of toxic ones grow around my trees and ive monitored their reaction to them and theyre really not into them. Even my mouthy gelding refuses mushrooms, and he gives everything toxic a swoosh around his ‘uninhibited’ palate
he loves ferns, ivy berries, blocks of peat sod, licking plastic tarps, even licking my arm like a dog would. Coincidentally he tries to chew on my longhaired german shepherd’s tail. Anything new i show him, he tests it to see if it is edible, even a rubber tyre!
He’s the one in my profile pic checking out how tasty my camera is
My gelding didnt ever have loads of it though, a lot of times its the amount the horse has that can cause reaction and severe toxicity rather than the plant itself being toxic with just a few nibbles. Very few plants keel a horse over with just a few nibbles, except for the real baddies like yew trees.
Even oak leaves the gelding has nibbled a few here and there, just never enough of it to cause problems.
I did cut back the ivy to just limit his ability to get at loads of the holly.
Deer completely stripped a holly tree i felled and left on the ground in a few nights...they love eating holly in the winter.
Holly is indigenous here so grows everywhere, a magnificient tree, im amazed such a waxy evergreen is palatable to some horses.
Thankfully horses are not interested in wild mushrooms, plenty of toxic ones grow around my trees and ive monitored their reaction to them and theyre really not into them. Even my mouthy gelding refuses mushrooms, and he gives everything toxic a swoosh around his ‘uninhibited’ palate
he loves ferns, ivy berries, blocks of peat sod, licking plastic tarps, even licking my arm like a dog would. Coincidentally he tries to chew on my longhaired german shepherd’s tail. Anything new i show him, he tests it to see if it is edible, even a rubber tyre!He’s the one in my profile pic checking out how tasty my camera is