Smogul
Well-Known Member
I have always been told horses only eat ragwort when there is nothing else available or it is dried and mixed in with forage. At the weekend, grazing my pony in hand, I realised he was tucking enthusiastically into some ragwort. I removed him from this temptation immediately but I would be interested to hear if anyone else had seen this. The field I was grazing him in had great grass (normally used for dairy cattle but cleared for our event), thistles and nettles in the verges and various flowers, all of which he sampled.