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Post by fimacg on May 22, 2011 10:31:25 GMT
for the last week the boys have all been producing ginger coloured poo... not the bright green of grass only diet or the golden of hay.
if it had been just one of them I'd have been worried but the fact that itwas all 3 made me realise it was something they were eating and I've finally caught them in the act...
The are very delicately nibbling the bright yellow flowers of the gorse bushes.
so I bet this is the only time when green and yellow dont make blue but instead a very intersting ginger hue!
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Post by zara on May 22, 2011 14:12:15 GMT
Mmmm lovely Fi, they obviously like gorse flowers x
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Post by scattymare on May 23, 2011 7:45:32 GMT
ooh lovely!
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Post by ceej on May 23, 2011 8:36:09 GMT
mine have the odd ginger too at the mo, but no gorse in my field...?
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Post by fimacg on May 23, 2011 9:17:40 GMT
any other flowers they could be eating - I have to admit I have never seen it that colour before...
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Post by ceej on May 23, 2011 12:56:02 GMT
well my field has loads in it as it has a hedgrow and Harry loves to forage - buttercups are rife amongst (although they leave them alone - this is another thread i havent had time to start yet! Not sure what to do and whether only the flower is mildly toxic or whether the leaves are too - they are a nightmare to get rid of) urm, blackthorn, hawthorn, thistle, trees. could be anything!!
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Post by haffyfan on May 23, 2011 18:44:36 GMT
lovely! Pleased to say I ahve never experienced this to date. Wasn't gorse the staple diet of the ID at one time though!
Ceej I get loads of buttercups but not sure you can affectively do anything about them. Last year for the first time they were just left and this year is no worse/no more than normal.
In previous years A has sprayed them but this means keeping the horses off for x amount of time etc and it makes not a blind bit of notice the following season hence just leaving them. I read they would have to eat an awful lot to get ill (and they appear to not touch them at all) and that as soon as they die (ie in hay) they are no longer poisionous at all.
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Post by dannyboy on May 23, 2011 20:08:06 GMT
Murphy's poo is ginger too - wonder what it is? Like Ceej, Murphy has been nibbling on the hedgerow i.e. blackthorn, hawthorn, thistle, trees.
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