Jim. If flower has a yellow center it may be forget me nots flower. or it is a grass with blue flowers. Hard to see in the picture.
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Jim. If flower has a yellow center it may be forget me nots flower. or it is a grass with blue flowers. Hard to see in the picture.
John, yes, the buttercups are not good for many kinds of livestock, including horses. Same with other things that "just grow", so folks who have livestock need to take care in that respect.
My friends in vet school all have the same 1st year assignment - to collect as many toxic plants as possible and make a book with laminated leaves, drawings, descriptions and notes on the potential physiological effects that plant has on certain animals. (Some may kill after eating a single leaf!) Although I keep several books of toxic plants, field trips to help locate, ID, and collect these plants have been a great education for me as well. We were scouring my property, friend's farms, roadsides, even commercial nurseries! (That's the only place we found oleander)
There are toxic plants everywhere. Fortunately, in general an animal usually will not eat most toxic plants unless confined with nothing else to eat. I have seen goats eat the flowers of buttercup but I think the nasties are concentrated in the leaves which they wouldn't touch. I don't like to spray herbicides on the fields but I will use 2-4-d every few years when I see buttercup starting to come back since it chokes out the grass. (it will take out the horse nettle and pigweed too)
Wilted back cherry leaves are a special concern since the trees are everywhere - I recently removed a 120' tall cherry tree well outside the llama fence but with the potential to drop branches in the field during a storm.
JKJ
Dad kept bees when I was growing up. We lived in the country and didn't have a lawn. We had a yard. There was a large patch along the lane from the house to the barn that was nearly 100% clover. When blooming it was a bee carpet. You didn't dare walk there with bare feet.
Thankyou Andrew. My wife deserves a lot of the credit also.
It has taken many years for the crows to trust me being a man. They took to my wife after a few years.
This is because men hunt around here, me being a hunter when I was younger. They truly appreciate our help in leaving food for them in our yard.
Every spring the extended family returns to help protect the young and feed them.
I make sure to buy a big ham with plenty of fat for them, after we have eaten our fill of course, and buy whole chickens so we can leave the bones and fat. But it is the hot dogs that really get them excited. At a buck a pound it really is not as ridiculous as it seems.
We buy 50 lb bags of dog food and give them that mostly. The blue jays really like it also, and the red bellied wood pecker and nut hatches.
Friends for life as the saying goes.