Ewe lamb sudden death

[jambi1214]

I think I'm gonna continue to hand pick the perilla plants I see out and put boys.back in this area.the next few days. I don't have extra pasture or area for them and they are currently in my back yard but no much left for them to get eat. Will not use Roundup anymore although I did use it around electric fencing....but with cancer concern I need another product! In spring or whenever pastures are prepped I will get someone out to spray I guess the whole pasture.

 

[Baymule]

I started a plant I.D. Thread. My I-phone had a button at the bottom of a picture that identifies plants and animals. Not 100%, but close. Feel free to add pictures and identification!

Grass, Weeds and Forbs-Picture I.D.

Wandering around the pastures, I’m finding a wide variety of plants. I’m taking pictures then using google plant ID to see what they are. I thought it would make a good reference for others. Please add your own pictures and ID so we all can learn. I was excited to see these. There’s not a...

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[SageHill]

I had oaks all over the property in Lindale. When I let the sheep in the yard to graze, they ran to their favorite tree to scarf up all the acorns. None had any ill effects. Maybe because they ate a variety of other plants, the acorns didn’t bother them.

I think you're right. Especially after all I've been reading lately. The ones that had issues were new here, probably ate too many "candy" acorns. I'll find out soon if they learned their lesson - acorns are starting to fall!

 

[Baymule]

I had a horse lose a couple hundred pounds, nothing worked, he was wormed, gave extra feed, still skinny. I finally caught on. Found him standing under a big white oak tree, just standing. An acorn fell and he went over and ate it. He was literally waiting on acorns to fall! Goofball. Between him and the deer eating the acorns and end of the season, he finally gained his weight back.

 

[Baymule]

What about the ewe that was acting off and not herself? Is she ok now?

 

[Finnie]

I had a horse lose a couple hundred pounds, nothing worked, he was wormed, gave extra feed, still skinny. I finally caught on. Found him standing under a big white oak tree, just standing. An acorn fell and he went over and ate it. He was literally waiting on acorns to fall! Goofball. Between him and the deer eating the acorns and end of the season, he finally gained his weight back.

Was it a problem with the acorns causing him to lose weight? Or the fact that all the time he was standing there waiting, he wasn’t grazing?

 

[Baymule]

Was it a problem with the acorns causing him to lose weight? Or the fact that all the time he was standing there waiting, he wasn’t grazing?

Eating the acorns. Acorns will make cattle lose weight too.

 

[Finnie]

Oh, I see.

 

[Ridgetop]

Will not use Roundup anymore although I did use it around electric fencing....but with cancer concern I need another product! In spring or whenever pastures are prepped I will get someone out to spray I guess the whole pasture.

Grazeon is safe for livestock but check Farmerjan's thread about it since it stays in the system for 12-18 months. I don't think you can butcher animals within that time. Check with Farmerjan and Baymule - she is spraying fencerows to put up pasture fence.

Eating the acorns. Acorns will make cattle lose weight too.

So will very high protein hay. We were feeding first and second cutting alfalfa to our dairy goats for higher milk yields. Super high protein - great for milk yield. We bought it by the field and had it delivered as we needed it. We fed it to our horses since it was what we had. Our two older horses both lost a lot of weight. They were really energetic and happy but looking thin.

I was livestock leader for our 4-H club at the time and while preparing for one of my meetings on how to feed market animals, both for gaining weight and holding them back, I suddenly realized that that high protein hay was keeping them from gaining weight no matter how much extra we fed. Took them off the good stuff and put them on lower quality hay and they started to fill out again. DUH!

 

[Baymule]

Grazon stays in the soil up to 18 months, not in the animal. Grazon kills broadleaf plants. I would suggest spot spraying the Perilla so you don’t kill off the “good “ weeds and forbs the sheep love to eat.