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Hungry or thirsty horses are more likely to eat poisonous plants, as are those pastured on overgrazed lands. [5] Animals with mineral deficiencies due to poor diets will sometimes seek out poisonous plants. [6] Poisonous plants are more of a danger to livestock after wildfires, as they often regrow more quickly. [7]
As benzene is ubiquitous in gasoline and hydrocarbon fuels that are in use everywhere, human exposure to benzene is a global health problem. Benzene targets the liver, kidney, lung, heart and brain and can cause DNA strand breaks and chromosomal damage, hence is teratogenic and mutagenic. Benzene causes cancer in animals including humans.
Poisoning from cantharidin is a significant veterinary concern, especially in horses, but it can also be poisonous to humans if taken internally (where the source is usually experimental self-exposure). Externally, cantharidin is a potent vesicant (blistering agent), exposure to which can cause severe chemical burns.
The Galician or Galician Mountain Horse, Spanish: Caballo de Pura Raza Gallega, [1] Galician: Raza Equina Cabalo Galego do Monte, [5] is a breed of small horse from Galicia, in north-western Spain. It is genetically very close to the Garrano breed of northern Portugal. [ 2 ]
If buttercups, red clover or dandelions were toxic to horse, there would be very few if any pastures in the UK that horses could graze! Listing by genus when only a few species are involved is quite wrong. There's also confusion between the plant itself being toxic and it being toxic when infected with a fungus or other non-plant organism.
Livestock Nutrition Center, which supplied the feed, said it was ‘truly sorry’ for the loss of the valued animals
Veterinarians in Palm Beach County's western communities warn horse owners of tainted feed contaminated with toxic weed.
Grass is a natural source of nutrition for a horse. Equine nutrition is the feeding of horses, ponies, mules, donkeys, and other equines. Correct and balanced nutrition is a critical component of proper horse care. Horses are non-ruminant herbivores of a type known as a "hindgut fermenter." Horses have only one stomach, as do humans.