permaculture

[Mark <mpludwig@facstaff.wisc.edu>]

At 02:48 PM 10/4/02 -0400, you wrote:
> Seed pods as well Heide ?
>
> Also, Black Locust is one of the hottest burning firewoods and watch you 
> don't plant them on your path too much as they are incredibly thorny !
> On Friday, October 4, 2002, at 01:11 PM, Heide Hermary wrote:
>
> > Black locust is poisonous to animals.  Why would you want to use it as 
> > forage?
> > Cheers, Heide

I ran into Dr. Dave Combs, one of our top dairy nutritionists at UW, in the 
mail room and asked about BL toxicity issues.  He stated that though there 
are very occasional poisonings of cattle by BL it only happens when there 
is no other feed for them. Apparently they will avoid eating it if given 
other choices.
Mark


Mark P. Ludwig
Poultry Research Lab
University of Wisconsin -Madison
608-262-1730 WK
608-846-7125 HM