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Discussion on Pasture with piles of grass sitting for months
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Member:
ceceb
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Posted on Saturday, Nov 23, 2013 - 2:55 pm:
I board my horse at a facility that two months ago cut the pasture next door for the first time in a year. This resulted in about 30 piles of cut grass throughout the pasture sitting. They are now wanting to move my horse into that pasture and I'm not in agreement. Their solution is to spread out the grass piles. The weather has been hot, humid then dry and rainy over the last 2 months. The decaying grass is black under the piles. I feel I should be concerned. There are horses in there but the owners have not said anything. Thanks for any help
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mrose
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Posted on Saturday, Nov 23, 2013 - 7:36 pm:
To be brief, you couldn't pay me to put my horses in that field. If the cut grass had not been piled up, the weather was dry, and the grass had dried out, that would be different. I doubt your horse would eat the blackened grass, but even that cut grass that is spread could have botulisim spores or mold spores. Personally, I would want more time to pass before horses were put out on it.
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DrO
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Posted on Sunday, Nov 24, 2013 - 8:35 am:
Hello Cece,
Sarah is right, rotting grass can result in botulism poison being formed, which may persist after spreading the rotting piles about.
DrO
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