March 6, 2008

Between speaking engagements and other work I'm building this page to provide you with information I have accumulated on plants I have worked on or have been asked about. Please check back as I improve and add more information.

If your animals eat something that's not on my list, drop me an email (kvoth@livestockforlandscapes.com) and I'll add it for the benefit of others.

Plants Cows Have Been/Are Being Trained To Eat

Plants Trained Animals Have Also Added to Their Diets

Other Plants Info

Plants Cows Have Been/Are Being Trained To Eat

• Black Mustard
• Dalmation and Yellow Toadflax
• Knapweeds
  • Spotted Knapweed
  • Diffuse Knapweed
• Leafy Spurge
• Thistles
  • Canada Thistle (Cirsium Arvense)
  • Distaff Thistle
  • Italian Thistle (Carduus pycnocephalus L.)
  • Milk Thistle
  • Purple Star Thistle (Centaurea calcitrapa)

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Plants Trained Animals Have Also Added to Their Diets

• Black mustard
• Coyote Bush
• Thistles
  • Bull Thistle
  • Musk Thistle
• Multiflora Rose
• Sulfur Cinquefoil (Potentilla recta)
• Willow

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Other Plants Info

• Buttercup - Ranunculus spp.
• Field Scabious (Kautia arvensis)
• Gorse (Ulex europaeus)
• Orange Hawkweed (Hieracium aurantiacum)
• Oxeye Daisy
• Russian Thistle (Tumbleweed, Salsola kali, Salsola tragus)
• Scentless Chamomile/Scentless False May Weed (Anthemis arvensis, Tripleurospermum perforatum (Merat) or Matricaria perforata)
• Yellow Starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis)

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