The Poisonous Plant Guide is constructed to enable location of a plant by either knowing the common or botanical name of the plant. The deadly nightshade lives up to its reputation once humans eat it. There may be signs of abdominal pain including kicking at the abdomen and frequent teeth grinding. Death in 4-8 days. As the disease progresses, cattle become frenzied, bellow, stagger and crash into obstacles. Fig 2 Cattle with lead poisoning become isolated and depressed. The disease is most common in cattle that accidentally gain access to large quantities of readily digestible carbohydrates, particularly grain. Most livestock poisoning comes in the spring from eating fresh foliage. The Colorado State University Guide to Poisonous Plants database lists trees, shrubs and perennials that can be harmful to animals. The symptoms of acute poisoning are trembling, staggering, rapid breathing, and death. Understand how cattle can develop nitrate toxicity or poisoning. The signs and symptoms of Black Nightshade Poisoning can vary from one individual to another. Nitrites cause respiratory distress due to interference with oxygenation of blood. Grain overload also is common in feedlot cattle when they are introduced to heavy grain diets too quickly. It may be mild in some and severe in others. Usually, stored forages with less than 1,100 ppm NO 3-N may be fed free choice to cattle. diagnosis and prevention of poisoning of animals by plants and other ... Nightshade family • Pokeweed • Redroot pigweed. Acute symptoms may include rapid breathing, incoordination or staggering, and signs of suffocation. They are rarely eaten except when animals are starving for better feed. Wheat, barley, and corn are the most readily digestible grains; oats are less digestible. Some plant species are naturally good accumulators of nitrates. It can result in death. Nitrate toxicity is basically a form of "anti-quality factor" that is associated with animals consuming plants that have a substance that creates health issues in them, just like with bloat is an anti-quality factor, or sweet clover poisoning, or grass/winter tetany. Chronic poisoning may result in poor growth, poor milk production and abortions. Milder symptoms of deadly nightshade poisoning include delirium and hallucinations, which appear quickly once ingested. Symptoms: Cattle -- high fever, loss of appetite, weight loss, difficult breathing, salivation, ataxia, opisthotonos, convulsions, internal bleeding; often mistaken for anthrax and other infectious diseases of cattle. Ten to twenty berries can kill an adult. In cattle, there is evidence that vitamin A storage is affected. Ingesting just two to four berries can kill a human child. Even chewing on just one leaf can lead to a dirt nap. Mayapple, bloodroot, pokeweed, nightshade and hellebore are other alkaloid-containing plants. 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