[cARRIE]

I put our 2 lambs and l goat in out garden in Sept. to clean it up and 1 lamb died to eating a pepper plant. Can I now put the others out there due to it's been very cold and had snow in there? Thanks again cARRIE

 

[Ross]

I know nightshade is toxic but I can't remember the details. (And I have to run this am!) I'm pretty sure David C Hendersons, vet guide for sheep farmers, covers it pertty well even if its an English prespective. Some things get toxic or more toxic after a freeze though. You lost a lamb to a pepper plant? What kind? I had a break in to my yard this spring and they ate my green pepper plants with no problems. I'll look up what I can this evening if you can't get a better answer. I'll bet the Merk Manual could add something too.

 

[bergere]

Nightshade is Toxic to sheep, as are Potatoes and Tomatoes.
I would avoid letting your sheep eat these plants.

Have never heard of a sheep dying from eating a Bell Pepper plant? Could it be possible it at something else just before?

Aome Toxic plants are..
Aconite Alk
Acorns
Alder Buckthorn
Alfalfa
Allspice Alk
Alsike Clover Pht
Aloe
Alsike CLover
Amaryllis
American-Laurel
American Elder
American Holly
American Mistletoe
American Yew
Angel's Trumpet
Anthurium
Apricot
Aroid Family
Arrow Grass Cya
Arrowhead Vine
Asparagus Fern
Astragalus
Autumn Crocus
Avocados Alk
Azalea
Bagpod Vol
Balsam Pear
Baneberry Vol
Barberry Alk
Belladonna Lily (Amarylis)
Bird Of Paradise
Bird Rape
Bittersweet
Black Cherry Cya
Black-Eyed Susan
Black Henbane
Black Locust Cya
Black Nightshade Alk
Black Oak
Black Snake Root Alk
Black Walnut Cya
Bleeding Heart
Bloodroot Alk
Blue Cardinalflower
Blue Cohosh Cya
Blue Flag Iris
Bluebonnets
Blueweed
Bog-Laurel
Bouncing Bet
Boston Ivy
Boxwood Alk
Bracken Fern
Brake Fern
Broad Bean
Broomcarn Cya
Broom Snakeweed
Buckeye (Horse chestnut) Cya
Buckwheat Pht
Bulbuous Buttercup
Bur Buttercup
Burke's Lupine
Burning Bush
Buttercups Vol
Caladium
Calico Bush
California Bluebell
California Rose-bay
Canada Nettle
Canada Yew
Canadian Milk-vetch
Candelabra-Cactus
Caper Spurge
Cardinalflower
Castor Bean
Celandine Alk
Celery-leaved Buttercup
Ceriman
Cherry Cya
Chinaberry
Chinese Evergreen
Chinese Lantern
Choke Cherry Cya
Chives
Christmas Rose
Chrysanthemum
Clamoun
Climbing Nightshade
Clover Int
Cocklebur Int
Coffee Weed
Collodium
Colorado Rubberweed
Common Comfrey
Common Groundsel
Common Hop
Common Milkweed Cya
Common Nightshade
Common Poppy Alk
Common Privet
Common Tansy
Common Vetch
Coriaria
Corn Cockle Cya
Corn Poppy
Cowbane
Cowslip
Creeping Charlie
Creeping Fig
Crotalaria Alk
Croton
Crow Poison Alk
Crowfoot
Crown of Thorns
Cut Leaved Coneflower
Cut-Leaf Philodendron
Cyclamen
Cypress Spurge
Daffodil
Daphne
Death Camas Alk
Delphinium (ornamental)
Devil's Backbone
Devil's Ivy
Devil's Weed
Dicentra Alk
Discarded Christmas Trees
Dog Hobble
Dogbane Cya
Dologeton
Downy Brome Grass Int
Drunk Cane
Dumbcane
Dutchman's Breeches

E F G H
Eastern Whorled Milkweed
Elderberry Cya
Elephant Ears
Emerald Duke
English Bluebell
English Holly
English Ivy
English Yew
Entire Leaved Groundsel
European Buckthorn
European Elder
European Spindletree
Fall Crocus
False Hellebore Alk
False Jessamine Alk
False Ragweed
February Daphne
Fiddleneck
Field Horsetail
Five Hooked Bassia
Flamingo Lily
Fly Honeysuckle
Foxglove
Friar's Cap
Fume Wort Alk
Garden Sorrel
Garland Daphne
Garlic
Gas Plant
Giant Dumbcane
Giant Hogweed
Glory Lily
Goat Weed
Golden-Bean
Golden Chain Tree
Golden Rain
Golden Trumpet
Grass Pea
Greasewood
Greater Celandine
Green Dragon
Green False Hellebore
Green Tansy Mustard
Ground Cherry
Ground Ivy
Groundsell
Guelder Rose
Hairy Vetch
Heart Leaf Philodendron
Hellebore Alk
Helmet Flower
Hemp Alk & Cya
Hemp Dogbane
Holly
Horse Chestnut
Horse Nettle Alk & Cya
Horse Radish
Horsetail
Hound's Tongue
Hyacinth
Hydrangea

I J K L
Iceland Poppy
Indian Hemp Cya
Indian Mustard
Indian Poke Alk
Indian Turnip
Indian Tobacco

InkberryAlk
Iris
Ivy Cya
Ivybush
Jack-In-The-Pulpit
Japanese Plum
Japanese Wisteria
Japanese Yew
Jasmine
Jerusalem Cherry
Jimsonweed Alk
Johnson Grass Int
Johnson Grass Cya
Kafir Lily>Cya
Kalmia
Kentucky Coffeetree
Klamath Weed
Kochia
Laburmum
Lamb's Quarters
Lantana (photodynamic)
Large Leaved Lupine
Larkspur Alk
Laurel Cya
Leaf-Laurel
Leafy Spurge
Leatherwood
Leucothoe Cya
Lily of the Valley Cya
Lobelia Alk
Locoweed
Low Larkspur
Lupines Alk

M N O P
Maidenhair Tree
Majesty
Maleberry Cya
Mandrake Alk
Mango
Marble Queen
Marijuana Cya
Marijuana Alk
Marsh Arrow Grass
Marsh Horsetail
Marsh Marigold
Matrimony Vine
Mayapple Alk
Menzies Larkspur
Mescal Bean
Mesquite Int
Mexican Breadfruit
Milkweeds Cya
MiloCya
Mistletoe
Mock Orange
Monkey Pod
Monkshood Alk
Moonseed Alk
Morning Glory
Mother In Law Plant
Motherwort
Mountain Laurel
Multi-flora Rose Int
Mushrooms
Musk Thistles Int
Naked-flowered Sneezeweed
Nap At Noon
Narcissus
Neothytis
Night shade Alk
Nightshade Cya
Northern Water Hemlock
Nutmeg
Nux Vomica
Oaks
Oats
Ohio Buckeye
Oleander Cya
Onion
Opium Poppy
Oriental Poppy
Ornamental Hypericums Pht
Osage Orange
Pawpaw
Peaches Cya
Penciltree
Periwinkle
Peruvian Lily
Petty Spurge
Peyote
Philodendron
Pigweed
Pin Cherry
Pink Death Camas Alk
Pink Lady's Slipper
Plums Cya
Poinsettia
Poison Darnel Alk
Poison Hemlock Alk
Poison Ivy
Poison Laurel
Poison Suckleya
Poison Sumac
Poison rye grass Alk
Poke Alk
Pokeberry Alk

Pokeweed Alk
Ponderosa Pine
Pot and Spider Mum
Potato
Pothos
Poverty Grass Int
Precatory Pea
Prickly Comfrey
Prickly Lettuce
Primula
Prostrate Pigweed
Privet

Purple Cockle
Purple Locoweed
Purple Sesban

Q R S T
Quaker-Bonnets
Radish
Rain Tree
Rape Pht
Rapeseed
Rattlebox
Rattleweed Alk
Red Chokecherry
Red Clover
Red Maple
Red Oak
Redroot Pigweed
Red Princess
Reed Canarygrass
Richweed
Rhododendron Cya
Rhubarb
Rock Poppy Alk
Rosary Pea
Russian Knapweed
Saddle Leaf
Sand Burr Int
Saskatoon
Scarlet Pimpernel
Scotch Broom
Seaside Arrow Grass
Sensitive Fern
Sevenbark Cya
Sheep Laurel
Sheep Sorrel
Show Lady's Slipper
Showy Milkweed
Siberian Scilla
Silky Lupine
Silver Cya
Silvery Lupine
Skunk Cabbage
Small-Laurel
Smooth Pigweed
Snakeberry
Sneezeweed
Sneezewood Sorghum Cya
Snowdrop
Soapberry
Soapwort
Soldier's Cap
Sorghum Cya
Sour Dock
Southern Mountain Laurel
Spider Lily
Spatulate Leaved Heliotrope
Spotted Cowbane Alk
Spindletree
Spinach
Split Leaf
Spoonhunt

Spoonwood
Spotted Dumbcane
Spotted Water Hemlock Alk
Sprangeri Fern
Spreading Dogbane
Spurge
Spurge Laurel
Squirrel Corn
Squirrel Tail Grass Int
St. John's Wort Pht
Stagger brush Cya
Stagger grass Alk
Staggerweed Alk
Star of Bethlehem
Stinging Nettle
Stinking Rabbitbrush
Stinkweed
Stoned Fruits Cya
Sudan Grass Cya
Sunburned Potatoes
Sun Spurge
Sunflower
Sweet Pea
Sweet Shrub Alk
Swiss Cheese Plant
Tall Larkspur
Tall Manna Grass
Tansy
Tansy Ragwort
Taro
Tartarian Honeysuckle
Thin Leaved Snowberry
Thorn Apple Alk
Timber Milk Vetch
Tobacco
Tomato Vine
Tree of Heaven
Tri-Leaf Wonder
Trillium
Tulip
Two Grooved Milk Vetch

U V W X
Umbrella Plant
Varebells Alk
Veined Dock
Velvet grass Cya
Velvety Goldenrod
Virginia Creeper
Water Hemlock Alk
Weeping Fig
Western Bleedingheart
Western Minniebush
Western Poison Oak
Western Water Hemlock
Western Yew
White Baneberry
White Camas
White Cohish
White Clover
White Hellebore
White Rose Bay
White Sanicle
White Snakeroot Cya
Wild Black Cherry Cya
Wild Cabbage
Wild Calla

Wild CherriesCya
Wild False Indigo
Wild Ginger
Wild Hydrangea Cya
Wild Indigo
Wild Mustard
Wild Onion
Wild Parsnip Alk
Wild Radish
Wisteria
Wolfs-bane Alk
Wormseed Mustard
Wood-Laurel

No Listings
Y Z
Yellow Iris
Yellow Jessamine Alk
Yellow Lady's Slipper
Yellow Rocket
Yellow Sage
Yellow Star Thistle
Yellow Sweet Clover
Yellow Toadflax
Yew (ornamental)
No Listings

 

[Ross]

It's important to remember all things are toxic it just depends on the dose! Clovers are listed as "toxic" but only because they have a feasable doseage they can take in, typically clover is a pretty good hay even as a "pure" stand but sheep should not have free access to the feed and hay or grass pasture available too.

 

[Gary]

Those exhaustive toxic lists are next to useless,should have a rating as to how
toxic and some plants like the Yew is toxic at all times while Wild Cherry is only
toxic at very specific times etc.

 

[Ross]

Would you have any web references that we could link to Gary? A list is a start but a complete reference done out by hand is a monumental task. This list is copied as a sticky too so feel free to add constructive additions to it there. Thanks

 

[Don Armstrong]

After the night shade bushes freeze can goats and lambs eat them?

Yes, of course! Just like the first time.

What you didn't ask was - will the plants still kill them? And the answer is.... "Yes, of course! Just like the first time".

Honestly, they wouldn't get much from the leaves of a few chillies or tomatoes, and it doesn't take much to pull them and compost them. Why not spend the two minutes to pull the poisonous plants out?