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Halln5

Posted on Sunday, Jun 27, 2004 - 12:28 pm:

I've noticed that my 29 year old gelding not only stands under our lovely willow tree for shade and fly relief but yesteday he was eating the leaves--pulling branches down and eating them. Is this dangerous? Thanks.
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DrO

Posted on Sunday, Jun 27, 2004 - 6:49 pm:

Though we know these trees have salicylic acid in them there are no reported cases of poisoning from them that I can find. There are many species of willows so there may be differences.
DrO
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