Horses need to eat around 10 pounds of creeping indigo daily for about 14 days to develop signs. Creeping Indigo also spreads by long, hard-to-pull roots and seeds making it difficult to fully kill in one round. It creeps along very close to the ground, making it really hard to find. This is one horrible poisonous plant, and ‘Creeping’ is the key word. Since poisonous plants pretty much all look alike to me, I have included a picture of one. If they make it 36 hours, it’s very likely they will recover. The Docs give them lots, and lots, and I mean lots, of IV fluids. There aren’t great treatment options for this toxin. They will also urinate red or dark brown urine. They become extremely depressed, and may even have blue mucous membranes. Horses are affected within about 24 hours of eating. This makes the blood unable to carry oxygen. The toxin, gallic acid, causes the body to attack and kill the red blood cells. Like many plants, wilted leaves contain the most toxin. Eating as little as 2 pounds of Red Maple leaves will cause toxicity in horses. While beautiful, Red Maple trees are very, very bad for horses. ![]() Quick dog and cat tip before I begin, since we all love cats (and tolerate dogs): Lillies are deadly to cats in very, very small (like microscopic) amounts, and Coonti palms work the same way for dogs. Heck, they’ll even come to your farm and check out your plants with you! If you’ve got questions about plants after reading my weekly dose of cat wisdom, I suggest you contact your local extension office. They tell me they are a FREE service, and they can help with all kinds of things. All of my poisonous plant wisdom has come from listening to seminars here at the clinic by really knowledgeable people from a place called the County Extension Service. ![]() It’s poisonous plant season around North Central Florida, so I thought I’d drop a little plant wisdom on you humans.
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