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Little River, TX | No it is just a story to illustrate a point.
Usually my story goes with the horse wondering onto the Rail Road tracks and the Amtrak hit and killed the horse. After which the Vet opinioned that blister beetles in the hay is the reason the horse died.
Veterinarians are very knowledgeable but their knowledge is not universal. There are a lot of myths about the blister beetle and usually the myths prevail.
Entomology is a speciality all in it's own. It is no sin for a soil specialist or an animal specialist to not know the finer points of the blister beetle.
Being a hay farmer I need to know just enough of a number of specialties to get the job done. I found that if I want to sell alfalfa hay to the general public, I needed to know more about the blister beetle.
The idea that it requires fewer blister beetles to kill a horse is only partially true.
What the truth is, a horse being a horse will colic and die with less than a lethal dose of blister beetle poison.
Now this is supposedly true. Some people ate frogs legs from wild frogs. Supposedly these frogs had eaten a sub lethal dose of blister beetles. So these people had a secondhand sub lethal dose. Their symptoms was some discomfort urinating.
At one time a TAMU bulletin said that 2 beetles would kill a horse, and that is and was completely untrue.
At one time I as informed that a sheep can eat blister beetles by the bucket full. That is equally not true. | |
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Soil question - Base saturation
