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Poision
Carolyn Fernihough
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Are Leylandi cuttings poisionous to cattle?
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Carolyn Fernihough
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Yew is certainly poisionous.
But yew is not leylandii. Yew contains some specific chemicals called taxines.
Just below is a link to a book about poisonous plants. The book has a section about yews. You can look in fhe index, and there doesn't seem to be any reference to Leylandii (through that doesn't mean Leylandii is safe to eat)...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Handbook-Poisonous-Injurious-Plants-Goldfrank/dp/0387312684/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1354791459&sr=8-3#reader_0387312684
do not feed your cattle leylandi or anything like that,yew is very deadly and I could go on.feed them what they normally eat.I known so many horses that have been fed what people think is alright and they die .
Why are we talking about yew? Leylandi is absolutely nothing to do with yew!
However, Leylandi can be a skin irritant and there are some reports of it causing abortion in cattle if a lot is eaten. IME most cattle would not eat much of a growing Leylandi, but if someone put prunings in their fodder they might well eat enough to cause problems. Some cattle just do not have much of a self-preservation instinct!
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