What can happen when cattle eat toxic Johnsongrass?
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.
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