RE: [AlpacaTalk] Poisonous plants ?
Hi Ken,
I’m rather simple in my online skills…I just put “Kentucky + plants toxic to livestock“
Into my browser and came up with quite a list of local flora that seems to be toxic in your area. Looks like U of K has some resources also.
This is about the extent of my “computing” abilities…but there are resources local to you, more or less, that should help. Meanwhile,
I’m so sorry for your loss of Willa! They are so sweet that it is like losing a child when one goes unexpectedly. Let’s hope that running through the lists now available about your area, you don’t have any more of the bad ones…and that you can successfully “alpaca-proof” your farm!
Here is hoping that all the rest of your herd is and remains in ruddy good health for the foreseeable future.
Best of luck,
Allison
Allison E. Moss-Fritch
New Moon Alpacas
Santa Clara, CA
http://www.newmoona
408/248-3581
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Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 12:43 PM
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Subject: [AlpacaTalk] Poisonous plants ?
A warning as well as a question. I just lost my sweetest little girl. I'm new to alpaca and the 4 that I collected this summer have cleared the partially wooded 1-acre lot I had made them. So while I am at home and can watch them they have had access to the front yard, about 6 acres. Things were fine for a couple weeks then this Sunday it turned tragic. Willa was dead not 11 hours after I put them up for the night and everyone was healthy and fine. Preliminary report from the autopsy is Taxus toxicity. She had eaten from a Yew bush in the back yard by the fencing that I thought was another juniper bush. The Yew bush is very common in Kentucky and through out the USA. It is very poisonous and can cause death in minutes. I'm heart broken. What are the other plants I should be eradicating from my farm ? The leaves are falling and I think I read oak leaves are dangerous when not completely dry or growing and green. Is that true ? If so I am in serious trouble. The kids are locked in the dry lot until I hear back from the vet with a full report.
Ken Hoh
Alpaca Hoh Ranch
Owenton, KY
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