AN UNEXPECTED POISONING? | TECHNICAL #65: Acorn Toxicity

Sign up for the FVF newsletter! Video links sent straight to your inbox once a week, plus anything cool that's livestock health related I see on my travels... https://sendfox.com/farmvetfilms ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oak trees and their acorn fruit (nut? seed?) are surprisngly toxic to livestock. 2022 has proven to be a bumper year for the acorn crop and so it has been high risk for what is otherwise a reasonably rare poisoning. NFU Cymru 'Acorn poisoning and the risk to livestock' https://www.nfu-cymru.org.uk/en/news-... Farmers Weekly 'Livestock deaths prompt warning over acorn poisoning risk' https://www.fwi.co.uk/livestock/healt... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Instagram:   / farmvetfilms   Facebook:   / farmvetfilms   Twitter:   / filmsvet   I'm Kaz, a young farm vet working in Northumberland (but now on sabbatical in New Zealand!), which is in the North East corner of England. I grew up in the city and found myself doing this job by a very happy coincidence. This channel is an attempt to show my friends, family, and anyone else who cares, what I do on a day-to-day basis. If you have an interest in veterinary medicine, farming, food or the countryside, join me for the ride.