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Is there any relatively easy treatment for acorn toxicity?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1716711" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>Deer have proline-rich tannin-binding salivary proteins, which allow them to eat acorns and other high-tannin foodstuffs with no issue. Goats also have tannin-binding salivary proteins, but they are different from the proline-rich ones found in deer saliva. Cattle, sheep, horses lack any of these tannin-binding salivary proteins, so are much more affected by the tannins/gallotannins present in acorns. </p><p></p><p>I've seen acorn-poisoned cattle down, treated with IV & oral fluids, laxatives, charcoal, get up and stagger over to go right back to eating acorns.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1716711, member: 12607"] Deer have proline-rich tannin-binding salivary proteins, which allow them to eat acorns and other high-tannin foodstuffs with no issue. Goats also have tannin-binding salivary proteins, but they are different from the proline-rich ones found in deer saliva. Cattle, sheep, horses lack any of these tannin-binding salivary proteins, so are much more affected by the tannins/gallotannins present in acorns. I've seen acorn-poisoned cattle down, treated with IV & oral fluids, laxatives, charcoal, get up and stagger over to go right back to eating acorns. [/QUOTE]
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