Re: RC: Eating green pine needles

[Teddy Lancaster <teddy@runningbear.com>]

Be VERY careful about wood chips!!!!  Cherry and Walnut in particular can KILL
your horse within 24 hours. Just standing on walnut can do that and chewing on
cherry most certainly will.  I used to get wood chips, but when the tree company
could not guarantee that no walnut or cherry was present, I put a stop to it.  I
almost lost a mare due to 1 part per 1000 of walnut in wood shavings from a
sawmill.  Don't ignore this!!!

Teddy

SeeUN100@cs.com wrote:

> Hi all, have a question I though someone might know?!!  My gelding has
> horrible feet and the cinders he was on were killing his feet.  Our farrier
> recommend putting wood chips down over the cinders to reduce the abrasiveness
> of them. APS, is now delivering wood chips to us daily...which is helping my
> horse feet tremendously!!!  The "BIG" problem is that my geldings kinda munch
> on them but the mare I board "chows" down on every new load (she would rather
> eat chips than breakfast!).  The chips are fresh and have a lot of green pine
> needles in them.  I talked to our vet, and he said that it shouldn't be a
> problem but then gentleman that is dumping our chips said that the last
> people he dumped for had two colts die (supposedly from the chips).  I
> believe I have read somewhere that fresh needles and chips where only toxic
> to pregnant mares?  Am I right, have any of you had ANY problems or heard of
> any problems associated to wood chips and/or pine needles????  Should I worry
> about impactions?   Will they get sick of them and stop eating them in time?
> Also, this isn't a brood mare....I don't think she will ever be bred.
>
> I am really worried about this mare (and my geldings) and any advice anyone
> can give me would be GREATLY appreciated.  Thank you so very much!!
>
> Johnna Robb
> Flagstaff, AZ
> SeeUN100@cs.com
> "He who is impatient waits twice." -- Mack McGinnis "
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