{"id":407811,"date":"2025-09-08T12:38:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T12:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/407811\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T12:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T12:38:14","slug":"ten-cattle-die-in-bristol-somerset-from-hemlock-poisoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/407811\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten cattle die in Bristol, Somerset, from Hemlock poisoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Tyndale Vets, who cover south west England and south Wales,\u00a0issued a warning after &#8216;several cases&#8217; of Hemlock Water Dropwort poisoning.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A vet at the practice confirmed that eight out of 42 cattle died in Bristol at the end of August, and there were two found dead the weekend before.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The practice said: &#8220;I imagine any areas that had been in drought were at similar risk of poisoning.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;This is because the water level in ditches are lower, so cattle are going deeper into ditches\/digging for water. It can also occur after ditch dredging and removal of the plants that livestock can consume.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The plant has these characteristic tuber roots\u00a0and the flower itself can look similar to Cow Parsley, though the stem is firmer and woody.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Please be vigilant and check any ditches for hemlock prior to putting livestock in the field. Wear gloves if removing hemlock. It is also still toxic if bailed into hay.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.southwestfarmer.co.uk\/news\/25435375.hemlock-water-dropwort-warning-uk-farmers\/?rel=cl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Farmers warned of deadly hemlock as cattle die in south west<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Signs of Hemlock Water Dropwort poisoning include:\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rapid breathing\n  <\/li>\n<li>Teeth grinding\n  <\/li>\n<li>Muscle weakness\n  <\/li>\n<li>And eventually, seizures and paralysis\n  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n  Hemlock Water Dropwort poisoning can affect both sheep and cattle, and there is no treatment or cure.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyndale Vets, who cover south west England and south Wales,\u00a0issued a warning after &#8216;several cases&#8217; of Hemlock Water&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-407811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115168719934378330","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}