Ragwort – the danger

Following Peter Morgan's article, 'Caring for Dobbin' yesterday, there's a follow-up comment on this serious issue from Talulah: She says:

There seems to be a 'halfwit' taking matters into their own hands in the Audlem area, tresspassing into fields and chopping the heads off Ragwort plants.

I turned up at my field one day last week ready to pull up my ragwort (which had been intact the night before), as I do every year and had already started this year, only to find someone had entered my field and chopped all the heads off.

I AM FUMING, and the numpty who has done this has seriously jeopardised the health of my horses. I spent hours clearing up what I could but there are leaves and petals mingled in with the grass, spread far and wide and the horse won't be able not to eat it!

If people feel they should interfere then there are plenty of Ragwort plants in grass verges that they can attack, where the plants left to die won't ENDANGER horses' lives.

What an incredibly stupid, reckless and life threatening act – part knowledge really is a dangerous thing – or maybe they just don't care a hoot about the horses that graze those fields – in which case it's a whole more serious crime.

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