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[Rainwolf]

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been shopping all day with the kid.. niece.. I hate shopping

 

[Chickielady]

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[Chickielady]

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Really ? The bad kind of Tansy ? It is very tall and aromatic and grows in abundunce with sage and yarrow...maybe I am thinking of a different weed.

 

[Chickielady]

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didn't say her goat did ... just know that accidental ingestion of toxic plants is ONE of the most common things to happen to livestock....
Tansy grows SUPER well on this side of the mountains.. It is one of the most commonly ingested toxic plants by livestock in western washington.

Please please read the link I posted.. its right from the WSU.edu website. I have it around me, I pull it whenever I see it. Symptoms of tansy toxicity are liver related as it causes cumulative irreversible liver damage. Tansy Ragwort is NOT a pretty plant.. it is an illegal noxious toxic weed. Common Tansy is a different plant and had many medicinal/culinary purposes.

Here is another article from Island County... http://www.islandcounty.net/weedcontrol/weedweb/wdtext/tansy.htm It mentions symptoms of Tansy poisoning.

This is straight from the WSU website:
****The greatest infestations of tansy ragwort occur west of the Cascades. In some areas, it is at or near the crest of the Cascades, and it is invading areas east of the Cascades. Contaminated straw and hay brought by hunters from infested sites west of the Cascades were major carriers of tansy ragwort seed.***

Oh wow J- that is a compltely different weed than I am thinking of that we had in Eastern WA and north Idaho...sorry.
But what do you think about CWD with her goat ?
Have you seen any animals come in with CWD ?

 

[Chickielady]

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OK now that you are here, have you seen CWD with goats ?

 

[Chickielady]

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Here's an interesting read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tansy . I'm trying to think if I've seen it on my place and just ain't sure. I wonder if it could be a natural wormer for chickens? Hmm.

Btw, as for goats, I've found that goats somehow know what they should eat or not eat. I've got Foxglove and ferns and I'm sure other stuff here that they shouldn't eat and for whatever reason they just seem to know to stay away from that stuff.

God Bless,

THIS is the kind we had in North Idaho that does not grow here, and the other kind that J posted looks like little daiseys, is a whole different movie, I have NO idea about that.
My Tansy had no petals on it, and we used it for alot of different things.
OK got that figured out, and how did this discussion come about ?
Does Illia think her goat ate Tansy and died ?
If so, I think it would of gone in convulsions.
I think worms or CWD...

 

[Chickielady]

DH has to leave in the morning to haul down to CA...the house there has some electrical problems and all sorts of weird stuff going on, we assume they are growing pot, and suddenly we have a $500 power bill, on a home that is grid tie solar ? You gotta work really hard to use more power than those panels generate....none the less it is totally screwing up my holiday...

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

Well, new 6 inches of snow. I am already sick of it.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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NO ???? It must just be from all the bators they are running and esstree lights fer da chickens.

And FINALLY somebody else thinks the same possible cause as me .......... WORMS !!!!! When we had goats with those symptoms I would worm and most (not always) in a day or 2 we got spaghetti and the goat was getting better.

 

[jbear]

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Ooh I sure wish we had some of that!!

I know you are tired of it but it's much prettier to look at than the mucky yard!