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<blockquote data-quote="stocky" data-source="post: 303584" data-attributes="member: 1150"><p>Caustic, I dont mean to seem disagreeable, but red oak and white oak are the trees most common here. White oak give the most problems for us. I know of cattlemen who have cut every white oak on the place after losing cattle to them. I have been with a vet when he cut open a cow that was packed tight with white oak acorns and starved to death along with the infection from not being able to digest anything. Most of the time, here, the poison comes from the infection from the slicing of the stomach lining from the sharp point on the acorns. The animal will be sluggish and lose weight and have the scours and might live for a month before dying from infection, no matter how much medicine you give it. Others will heal and get well. Sometimes the acorns pack and starve the cow. The "acorn poisoning" is much worse in a drought where there is little grass to cushion those sharp points.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stocky, post: 303584, member: 1150"] Caustic, I dont mean to seem disagreeable, but red oak and white oak are the trees most common here. White oak give the most problems for us. I know of cattlemen who have cut every white oak on the place after losing cattle to them. I have been with a vet when he cut open a cow that was packed tight with white oak acorns and starved to death along with the infection from not being able to digest anything. Most of the time, here, the poison comes from the infection from the slicing of the stomach lining from the sharp point on the acorns. The animal will be sluggish and lose weight and have the scours and might live for a month before dying from infection, no matter how much medicine you give it. Others will heal and get well. Sometimes the acorns pack and starve the cow. The "acorn poisoning" is much worse in a drought where there is little grass to cushion those sharp points. [/QUOTE]
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