Under the walnut tree.....

[angus9259]

.....there's always plenty of grass. Cattle will never eat it. Soft lush grass under there and they'll be eating thorn bushes and bellerin' at me. Must have a bad taste from the rotting walnut shells????

 

[Rafter S]

Must have a bad taste from the rotting walnut shells????

Maybe so. Just like they hate to eat grass that's grown up where a manure pile was.

 

[inyati13]

.....there's always plenty of grass. Cattle will never eat it. Soft lush grass under there and they'll be eating thorn bushes and bellerin' at me. Must have a bad taste from the rotting walnut shells????

Walnut tree roots secrete a toxin. Have you noticed some plants will not grow there also.

 

[Bigfoot]

Old people say don't let horses near a walnut tree.

 

[M-5]

Old people say don't let horses near a walnut tree.

Black walnut is what Ive always heard

 

[dun]

.....there's always plenty of grass. Cattle will never eat it. Soft lush grass under there and they'll be eating thorn bushes and bellerin' at me. Must have a bad taste from the rotting walnut shells????

Walnut tree roots secrete a toxin. Have you noticed some plants will not grow there also.

Black walnuts do, not sure about those crappy english walnut trees. Saw too many cattle grazing under them in califonia to think that the grass under them is bad.

 

[Lucky_P]

Walnut trees - black or otherwise - pose no threat to horses...but some hayburners, which are prone to eating the bark off any standing tree in their attempt to restore any place they live back to the barren treeless Siberian steppes where they originated... are a threat to the trees.

That said, black walnut shavings/sawdust contain some substance (it's not juglone) that will cause laminitis(founder) in horses, if you place them in a stall bedded with said walnut shavings.

 

[inyati13]

Walnut trees - black or otherwise - pose no threat to horses...but some hayburners, which are prone to eating the bark off any standing tree in their attempt to restore any place they live back to the barren treeless Siberian steppes where they originated... are a threat to the trees.

That said, black walnut shavings/sawdust contain some substance (it's not juglone) that will cause laminitis(founder) in horses, if you place them in a stall bedded with said walnut shavings.

Not all plants are sensitive to juglone. Unfortunately, multiflora rose is one.

 

[angus9259]

All I know is that I rotate pastures and I want to wait till they eat everything before rotating and it takes FOREVER till they get interested in that grass underneath them!

 

[tom4018]

Walnut trees - black or otherwise - pose no threat to horses...but some hayburners, which are prone to eating the bark off any standing tree in their attempt to restore any place they live back to the barren treeless Siberian steppes where they originated... are a threat to the trees.

That said, black walnut shavings/sawdust contain some substance (it's not juglone) that will cause laminitis(founder) in horses, if you place them in a stall bedded with said walnut shavings.

I get the feeling someone is not a horse person.

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

Walnut trees - black or otherwise - pose no threat to horses...but some hayburners, which are prone to eating the bark off any standing tree in their attempt to restore any place they live back to the barren treeless Siberian steppes where they originated... are a threat to the trees.

That said, black walnut shavings/sawdust contain some substance (it's not juglone) that will cause laminitis(founder) in horses, if you place them in a stall bedded with said walnut shavings.

I get the feeling someone is not a horse person.

Lol, ya think?

 

[Bigfoot]

Again, science proves the old people wrong. Makes me wonder if anything they said was correct.

Edited to add:
If I find out putting urine in my ears to treat an ear ache does nothing, I'm gonna be mad

 

[inyati13]

Again, science proves the old people wrong. Makes me wonder if anything they said was correct.

Edited to add:
If I find out putting urine in my ears to treat an ear ache does nothing, I'm gonna be mad

Actually, that works. Urine from a healthy mammal is antiseptic.

The first aid response of natives to being hit in the eyes by a spitting cobra is to lay the victim on their back and plss in their eyes to flush out and denature the venom.

Remember that the next time you go to Africa.

But it is one thing to plss down someone's back but to plss in their ear is a horse of a different color.

 

[tom4018]

Again, science proves the old people wrong. Makes me wonder if anything they said was correct.

Edited to add:
If I find out putting urine in my ears to treat an ear ache does nothing, I'm gonna be mad

Actually, that works. Urine from a healthy mammal is antiseptic.

The first aid response of natives to being hit in the eyes by a spitting cobra is to lay the victim on their back and plss in their eyes to flush out and denature the venom.

But it is one thing to plss down someone's back but to plss in their ear is a horse of a different color.

He may be able to do his own ear. :hide:

 

[inyati13]

Again, science proves the old people wrong. Makes me wonder if anything they said was correct.

Edited to add:
If I find out putting urine in my ears to treat an ear ache does nothing, I'm gonna be mad

Actually, that works. Urine from a healthy mammal is antiseptic.

The first aid response of natives to being hit in the eyes by a spitting cobra is to lay the victim on their back and plss in their eyes to flush out and denature the venom.

But it is one thing to plss down someone's back but to plss in their ear is a horse of a different color.

He may be able to do his own ear. :hide:

LMAO

 

[kenny thomas]

.....there's always plenty of grass. Cattle will never eat it. Soft lush grass under there and they'll be eating thorn bushes and bellerin' at me. Must have a bad taste from the rotting walnut shells????

Walnut tree roots secrete a toxin. Have you noticed some plants will not grow there also.

I never thought I would say this but inyati13 is actually correct. The Black Walnut secretes the toxin to kill off the trees that would compete for nutrients and water.

 

[dun]

All I know is that I rotate pastures and I want to wait till they eat everything before rotating and it takes FOREVER till they get interested in that grass underneath them!

Ours must just be used to it. One edge of a pasture is a string of 50-60 foot tall black walnuts. Cows eat the grass and clover under them just fine.

 

[angus9259]

All I know is that I rotate pastures and I want to wait till they eat everything before rotating and it takes FOREVER till they get interested in that grass underneath them!

Ours must just be used to it. One edge of a pasture is a string of 50-60 foot tall black walnuts. Cows eat the grass and clover under them just fine.

They just know that bellerin' at an old cantankerous coot like you won't do them any good so they just shut up and eat it.