Without careful management, it can be toxic to horses and other livestock. Annual Ryegrass Staggers. This often deadly toxic disease affects the nervous system.

Annual ryegrass toxicity (ARGT) is a serious and increasingly more common toxicity of horses that consume annual ryegrass infected by the bacterium ...

Annual ryegrass toxicity is most commonly seen in Western Australia over the summer months with feeding of hay contaminated with infected ryegrass seedheads.

5 мар. 2024 г. · Annual ryegrass toxicity (ARGT) is a potentially fatal poisoning of livestock after consumption of annual ryegrass infected by the bacterium ...

12 окт. 2020 г. · Annual ryegrass staggers is a neurotoxic disease (often fatal) that occurs in livestock of any age that graze pastures in which annual ryegrass ...

Clinical signs of perennial ryegrass toxicosis can include muscle tremors and fasciculations, ataxia, a stiff or spastic gait, weakness, recumbency, heat stress ...

6 окт. 2020 г. · Symptoms differentiate from ryegrass staggers in that during an attack of grass staggers horses cannot eat, drink, defecate or urinate. Symptoms ...

Horses are most affected by the mycotoxin due to their hind gut digestion but sheep, cattle, alpacas and some deer species can also be affected. Ryegrass ...

18 июл. 2024 г. · Annual ryegrass staggers carries a poor prognosis, with most horses dying within 24 hours following the onset of clinical signs. Horses with the ...