What can happen when cattle eat toxic Johnsongrass?

From SUNUP SUNUP July 5th, 2022

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Rosslyn Biggs, DVM, gives a quick overview of the potentially deadly effects of prussic acid.

If livestock eat Johnsongrass with a fatal amount of prussic acid toxicity, their blood becomes filled with oxygen that cannot be absorbed by cells. Toxicity levels are highest after drought and frost.

https://extension.okstate.edu/articles/2022/prussic-acid-toxicity.html

Learn more in this OSU Extension fact sheet: https://extension.okstate.edu/fact-sheets/prussic-acid-poisoning.html

Contact your local OSU Extension county office for forage testing: https://extension.okstate.edu/county

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