Plants Toxic to Goats

Below is an excerpt from Dairy Goat Journal's March/April, 2009 issue on toxic plants for goats. Plants Toxic to Goats by Category •Volatile or essential oils as poisonous principle: Baneberry, buttercups, crowfoot, ground ivy, lobelia, snakeberry, spurge, white cohosh. •Saponin containing plants: Bagpod, coffee weed, purple sesban, rattlebox, soapwort. •Photosensitizing plants: Buckwheat, Goat weed, Klamath weed, Lantana, Rape, St. John's Wort. •Plants that cause mechanical injury: Clover, cocklebur, downy brome grass, sand bur, squirrel tail grass. •Tannic acid as a poisonous principle: Oaks •Poisonous principle not fully known: Inkberry (poke weed) •Resins as poisonous principle: Some discarded Christmas trees, namely Ponderosa pine needles.

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