Mushrooms....

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Right, I was moving the girly's fences out a bit today to give her a new strip of grass and I noticed a load of mushrooms. From what I could see, there were 2 types. The first was light stalk and underneath but a very dark brown on top and smelt quite 'woody' and there were loads of them. The second there were only a few and they were more 'pointy' in the top and were yellow/orange and had no distinct smell. What are they and are they poisonous to horses/people? If so, how is best to get rid of them?

Cheers :)
 
Try and get some photos of them, there is no way anyone can be sure from your descriptions.

We get really tasty field mushrooms in one of our fields, and plenty of these on the tracks

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Fly agaric (or Magic mushrooms) :D
 
OK. Just trying to find something that looks like them on the net (didnt have camera or phone with me to take a pic earlier). They didn't have spots on the top like in your picture. Never had to worry/deal with mushrooms before so never really taken an interest in them! I guess though the ones which are OK for humans are OK for horses?
 
For goodness sake, be careful! Field mushrooms/horse mushrooms are quite similar to amanita phalloides or the Death Cap and can easily be confused. They also grow in a similar environment.

Apparently, the Vikings used to eat the spotted mushrooms (aminta muscaria), beloved of the illustrators of children's fairy stories, to make themselves go berserk before going into battle. Moral: Beware of rhinos....:eek:

Don't eat anything you're not sure about.
 
:confused: I still dont know,....I will make a point of taking pics tomorrow if they have grown back. I have no interest what so ever in eating them, I just dont want the girl eating them if they are piosonous :( hope shes got enough grass and sense to leave any be that I missed
 
Dry Rot said:
For goodness sake, be careful! Field mushrooms/horse mushrooms are quite similar to amanita phalloides or the Death Cap and can easily be confused. They also grow in a similar environment.

Apparently, the Vikings used to eat the spotted mushrooms (aminta muscaria), beloved of the illustrators of children's fairy stories, to make themselves go berserk before going into battle. Moral: Beware of rhinos....:eek:

Don't eat anything you're not sure about.
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S'okay rotty, we have a fungi specialist on the estate :D Though my surname, and therefore my probable ancestry, is Viking, so that may be cause for concern :eek:

I'd make a good Viking
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:D :D :D
 
Miss L Toe said:
If you have ever tried raw mushrooms, you won't think your horse will eat them, never heard of any problems.
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No, I haven't either (though I do love raw mushrooms), it's not often horses eat things that they really shouldn't, they'll be enjoying eating all the new grass :)
 
I once did a fungi forage in Hamsterly Forest, Durham years ago, brilliant day,
as I remember, if the frills under the cap are pale don't eat, reddish caps with spots are poisonous but very pretty.
We had field mushrooms in our fields and the horses ignored them
 
Many years ago I spent a summer with a group doing up a farm house in Provence for a rather nutty but highly intelligent governor of a London hospital. We'd go out collecting fungi, bring them home and identify them from the book, then cook the edible ones. They really were delicious! So when I came home, I tried to do the same here. Ate what I thought were chanterels -- and was violently sick! I haven't done that again since! :(
 
Haha oh dear dry rot! Don't think I'll be attempting any mushroom foraging without an expert on hand (although I do plant identification at uni etc), it seems a bit too risky!
 
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