Wrong In All The Right Ways

ruffians-view:

Very proud of my boy, he took us to the top again despite his age! Love you buddy! :)

equined:

delphineandchercher:

from-dark-bays-to-dappled-grays:

black-tobiano:

horseyhumor:

equined:

I love coming home when my pasture looks like this!!

Ok, not at all picking on anyone in particular but i have seen several pictures lately of fields covered in buttercup (those yellow flowers), and I feel the need to educate a bit.

Yes, it is pretty.

NO IT IS NOT PRETTY IN YOUR PASTURE. Buttercup is POISONOUS! And although they won’t eat it when they have other options if that is all they have to eat - aka the entire field is covered like in the pictures I’ve seen - horses will eat the buttercup. And be POISONED! (Also, around where I live a lot of people think that it causes stringhalt)

Moral of the story: buttercup is not pretty in your pasture!

Really? I’ve heard horses can get ‘buttercup burn’ but that not all horses do, but not get poisoned

I could be wrong though, it’s just what I’ve heard, and though I know of horses getting poisoned by ragwort I’ve never heard of one being poisoned by buttercups even though they are far more common in horse’s fields

i shall go forth and google this now

Yes.. Buttercups are poisonous when a horse eats a lot of them. Just be wary!

Horses, among other animals, usually avoid poisonous plants, such as buttercups.

Yes to all of these points. It is however very common for horse pastures in my area to be filled with buttercups and they sprout every year here. I’ve had my horses on the same pasture for 7 years and have never had a problem with it (as well as my neighbors) because they are smart to avoid them. We also bush hog regularly, so they disappear rather quickly.

from-dark-bays-to-dappled-grays:

love.

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kaeli-paige:

“It was a dark,stormy night when she saw him,standing upon his grave.He looked much like the stallion who was buried beneath him,until lightning flashed and his grey coat was illuminated.He was very big,nearly around 17hh.His rump had very faint dapples,hardly visible in the lighting.His muscles were toned greatly and his legs looked strong and agile. It almost looked as if he was trained to be an eventer,cutting horse,and a racer at the same time.But,of course,it took many strikes of lightning to just see this much of the horse. She had been sitting there for nearly half an hour,just trying to study the strong beast before her.With a loud bang of thunder rocketing through the sky,the stallion through bobbed his regal head viciously,and took off into the woods.” -Kaeli Bartholomew ( A section from my story.)

prettycolors:

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