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Can goats eat ragwort

Updated: 11/10/2022
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Ragwort (Senecio jacobaea), also known as St James wort, has a moderate risk to goats as it contains a pyrrolizidine alkaloid, that has an accumulative effect of building up in the liver and causing chronic liver disease. Ragwort is also not very palatable.

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