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horses love tree leaves: stories about my horses and cats
Well, I made a startling discovery about my horses and when I run out
of fresh green pasture grass. My horses love eating leaves of elm, mulberry, ash and other trees. So I prune along the fence rows the trees branches and give them those to feed on for the day. This takes added time, and more time to clean up the denuded limbs on the ground, but it is well worth it for I have to clean up the brush anyway. And what is worse is the old practice of cleaning up brush and setting fire with air pollution. My way, the horses get good food, and I get more firewood in the end. Now I wonder if they teach this at agriculture schools, that livestock love leaves of trees and to use our brush to a good goal rather than cut it down and burn and pollute the air. I remember someone in Austria or Germany about 5 or 10 years ago posting to my comments saying that he fed his cattle or horses with brush in the evening as a "snack". Well the horses love the tree leaves so much that they rather eat the leaves than find grass. But the favorite of horses is apples and oatmeal cookies. Archimedes Plutonium http://www.iw.net/~a_plutonium whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies |
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horses love tree leaves: stories about my horses and cats
On Aug 19, 4:23*pm, Archimedes Plutonium
wrote: Well, I made a startling discovery about my horses and when I run out of fresh green pasture grass. My horses love eating leaves of elm, mulberry, ash and other trees. So I prune along the fence rows the trees branches and give them those to feed on for the day. This takes added time, and more time to clean up the denuded limbs on the ground, but it is well worth it for I have to clean up the brush anyway. And what is worse is the old practice of cleaning up brush and setting fire with air pollution. My way, the horses get good food, and I get more firewood in the end. Now I wonder if they teach this at agriculture schools, that livestock love leaves of trees and to use our brush to a good goal rather than cut it down and burn and pollute the air. I remember someone in Austria or Germany about 5 or 10 years ago posting to my comments saying that he fed his cattle or horses with brush in the evening as a "snack". Well the horses love the tree leaves so much that they rather eat the leaves than find grass. But the favorite of horses is apples and oatmeal cookies. Archimedes Plutoniumhttp://www.iw.net/~a_plutonium whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies testing the iphone |
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horses love tree leaves: stories about my horses and cats
On 8/19/11 4:23 PM, Archimedes Plutonium wrote:
Well, I made a startling discovery about my horses and when I run out of fresh green pasture grass. My horses love eating leaves of elm, mulberry, ash and other trees. So I prune along the fence rows the trees branches and give them those to feed on for the day. This takes added time, and more time to clean up the denuded limbs on the ground, but it is well worth it for I have to clean up the brush anyway. And what is worse is the old practice of cleaning up brush and setting fire with air pollution. My way, the horses get good food, and I get more firewood in the end. Some cut. You might want to take a look at this: http://tinyurl.com/3pokpn5 Some trees and plants are toxic to horses. |
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horses love acorns; stories about my horses and cats
I was pleasantly surprized last week, the horses love acorns from oak
trees. I would have thought the tannic acid in them was too strong to be palatable and that they would also be rather tough to grind. But apparently not. And also, a lot of people think a horse behaviour of chewing on wood is abnormal. I think it is normal behaviour since when I throw them tree branches to eat the leaves, they also chew on the cambium green layer for nutrients. So horses chewing on wood is their way of saying that they want some green tree bark to satisfy their craving. When I let the horses loose each day, they head for the apple trees first, then the pears, and finally the acorns, and then the grass. Also, with my headlamp, I usually see the reflection in the horses eyes and the cats, but also I now see that large spiders have those reflecting eyes. ArchimedesPlutonium http://www.iw.net/~a_plutonium whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies |
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