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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Draft Horse
  • Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 20:42:58 -0800

If vetch isn't perfectly cured it caused a type of paralysis in the hind end of a horses. Doesn't bother cattle but can play real havoc with horses. However, there are several varieties of vetch and quite a few cause problems in both animals and two-legged critters. Grass Vetchling can only be fed for a short period of time. Sweet Peas (in the same family) cause problems in humans, horses and turkeys. Green Vetch (Indian Vetch, Chickling Vetch and half a dozen other names for this plant) causes paralysis of the larynx in horses and neuro changes in monkeys, humans and rats. Ah, vetch is an interesting plant.

And, I should have mentioned, cause other folks aren't from my area, some of the grasses and their resulting hays that aren't save that grow in the areas other folks are in: Sorghum, Sudangrass, Johnsongrass, Sorghum-Sudangrass hybrids plus Kentucky 31 fescue for pregnant mares. They can all cause paralysis and urinary disorders plus the Kentucky 31 contains toxic endophytes.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Walton" <waltonrp AT gmail.com>


Good quality hay doesn't = big bucks. It equals hay that is clean, no mold,
no vetch, no foxtails, no star thistle.

What is the problem with vetch?

Rob - Va
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