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["roxann" <roxann AT ancientearthwisdom.com>]

well, the reason i'd thought of it in the first place is because peaceful 
valley has it listed as a forage crop in their catalog. 

something else i didn't know, that i just recently got an awful lesson on, is 
that horses cannot eat fairly big quantities of oak buds either. one of my 
horses were eating the buds off some limbs my husband was trimming from the 
tree, it was a lot of buds, i'd say half a bucketfull, and it caused his 
liver and kidneys to shut down and he did die from internal bleeding and 
organ failure about a week later :(  i didn't think he would eat something 
that wouldn't be good for him, but he was gobbling them up like they were 
candy and i so so wish i had known better. there was a mare we were keeping 
for a friend who was being really bossy toward him, not letting him graze 
with them and running him away from every spot he tried to eat - i didn't 
know how serious it was at the time, didn't know he wasn't getting to eat 
much at all - and that is why he ate so many of the buds. terrible terrible 
way to learn something :(

Roxann