Acorn poisoning

[MallingLleyn]

Hi, a long shot but does anyone have a remedy for acorn poisoning? I have a ram a bit off colour I suspect he has picked up a few acorns after yesterdays winds. I have heard abou strong tea or coffe any views?

 

[Werzle]

Hi, a long shot but does anyone have a remedy for acorn poisoning? I have a ram a bit off colour I suspect he has picked up a few acorns after yesterdays winds. I have heard abou strong tea or coffe any views?

Had a pet goat years ago that ate some poisonous plant , dosed it with very strong tea and it lived. It was lay flat out bleating in terrible pain, they reckon you can dose with a watery charcoal mix too

 

[JSmith]

Yeah think charcoal would be the way to go but if he’s been in the oak tree field a while I wouldn’t of thought it should bother him because he’d be used to them! The ewes have been eating them for weeks here an not bothered them!! Could be wrong though

 

[Tim W]

My ewes love them ---every time they go to a new field they run to the oak trees and hoover them up
No one seems to have come a cropper yet
Apparently a high dose can lead to kidney failure

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

We lost 3 shearlings a couple of weeks ago when they were still very green, but now they are brown the ewes seem to hoover them up happily. It may be that your ram has not been exposed to them so has poisoned himself. Strong black coffee might work, it does with Rhododendrons!!

 

[Downton_shep]

My ewes love them ---every time they go to a new field they run to the oak trees and hoover them up
No one seems to have come a cropper yet
Apparently a high dose can lead to kidney failure

Always amazes me how soon they spot a oak tree in a new field. Moved some ewes this morning and they basically ran straight to the tree.

 

[Werzle]

My ewes love them ---every time they go to a new field they run to the oak trees and hoover them up
No one seems to have come a cropper yet
Apparently a high dose can lead to kidney failure

If you have enough mouths and/or they eat the fallen acorns up daily they never get the chance to eat enough to hurt them

 

[Bury the Trash]

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[Highland Mule]

Coffee through a drenching gun - every 15 minutes for 8 hours. That's the recommended for rhodedendrons. I wasn't quite that regimented but saved three out of four that were out of it earlier this year. I also added a bit of sugar, and gave them multi-vitamin injections.

 

[milkloss]

Another one for coffee here. I think it stimulates the gut.

 

[Johngee]

Also try a vitamin B12 injection

 

[Highland Mule]

Also try a vitamin B12 injection

I’d guess it’s been make or break by now - how are they doing @MallingLleyn?

 

[Bury the Trash]

Problem is even if they are 'saved' the irreparable liver damage could mean a shortened life span anyway same for them eating Rhode's and some types of Laurel etc...

 

[Generally01]

So do acorns affect cattle negatively?
I noticed our milk cows really like em eat all they can get to.

 

[Global ovine]

There is no antidote for acorn poisoning. Activated charcoal solution will soak up the toxin in the stomachs of sheep and cattle. So will oxidants such as magnesium sulphate and burnt lime both in weak solution act as a preventative if risk is high.
Its kidney failure that will cause death or need to euthanize, so anything that keeps fluids going through the system will lower this damage. Use a drench gun to regularly administer warm water with some vegetable oil added to help purge the gut.

Don't feed straw or poorer hay if risk is high as that slows movement through the gut exposing the animals to more toxin absorption.

 

[GrannyAching]

I'm sure I've read that some animals do get a "depraved appetite" for acirns and will gorge on them. I always look for any animal make with excessive dribbles or froth from rumination and try to move them on to fresh grass to get over that initial green acorn phase.

 

[farmerm]

My ewes love them ---every time they go to a new field they run to the oak trees and hoover them up
No one seems to have come a cropper yet
Apparently a high dose can lead to kidney failure

Our do the same, they race to the oak trees. As a rough count we must have as many oaks in or around our fields as we have ewes, maybe more. I would not be surprised if each tree yields more than 1T of acorns in a year like this. Right now I have 2 anorexic ewes I suspect have poisoned themselves this Autumn

 

[Al R]

Oak tree’s circa 4ft tall and 8ft wide, 5-6 on a block of land I’ve taken on. These acorns are totally round, are they/could they be poisonous. Land owner has said I can move them if I really want - no trees here so no idea myself.

 

[GrannyAching]

Oak tree’s circa 4ft tall and 8ft wide, 5-6 on a block of land I’ve taken on. These acorns are totally round, are they/could they be poisonous. Land owner has said I can move them if I really want - no trees here so no idea myself.

Sorry to treat you like an idiot but if they are totally round aren't they oak apple galls? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_apple . In which case, I doubt if the sheep will touch them, they're like bullets.

 

[Al R]

Sorry to treat you like an idiot but if they are totally round aren't they oak apple galls? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_apple . In which case, I doubt if the sheep will touch them, they're like bullets.

When it comes to trees I only like to see them burning - bought in logs ready chopped

So will an Oak Apple Gall tree always produce Oak Apple Galls or do they go on to produce Acorns when their more mature? I don’t really want to dig them out but if it’s going to be a gall ache I will