Goats/Poisonous Plants

While goats are generally choosy about what they eat, certain plants are quite poisonous and so the goat owner should make sure that these plants are not present in grazing areas.

(Links here are to chapters in A Wikimanual of Gardening)

• Monk's hood
• Milkweeds
• Foxglove
• Hellebores
• Hydrangea (wilted leaves contain cyanide)
• Black Walnut
• Pokeweed
• Cherries (wilted leaves contain cyanide)
• Rhododendrons and Azaleas
• Nightshades
• Yew
• False Hellebores (lethal in small doses)

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• Common poisonous evergreens in the mid-Atlantic region

References

• http://netvet.wustl.edu/species/goats/goatpois.txt
• http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/goatlist.html