Do cattle eat wild asters?
RM: You never did hear me talkin’ about wild asters. They’d eat ivy in the spring of the year and get poisoned and die. in the spring of the year. Take the young ‘uns out there, and come the snow or bad weather, and they’d eat the ivy. SB: Poison ivy? RM: Just that old mountain ivy. SB: You were telling me they’d eat jewel weed, touch-me-not? RM: Wild touch-me-not. Oh, yeah. They’d eat ’em, but they wouldn’t eat ’em, not till up to last of July or August. SB: Somebody told me hogs like touch-me-not, too. RM: I never did see a hog that eat anything that you’d feed him. SB: So they’d eat touch-me-not. Up on the balds, the sheep stayed up on Thunderhead? RM: Oh sheep up on Thunderhead. That’s where they’d stay, up there on them balds. The sheep didn’t hit the hollers. He’d stay up where there’s grass. SB: So the sheep stayed mostly up where there was grass, and the cows came down into the hollows. And the horses stayed up with the sheep? RM: Oh, the horses stayed on them balds too. Of cou
