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  • From: "roxann" <roxann AT ancientearthwisdom.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] NO Buckwheat Hay, was What's planting in your zone 6-7?
  • Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 15:40:01 +0000

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





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