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I wasn't aware that burning it and the smoke getting in your lungs was bad!We grew up surroundedd by it on the farm, but learned very young to stay away from it. And we did have lots of goats.
posted by
adnohr
on December 19, 2022 at 2:54 PM
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I wasn't aware that burning it and the smoke getting in your lungs was bad!We grew up surroundedd by it on the farm, but learned very young to stay away from it. And we did have lots of goats.
posted by
adnohr
on December 19, 2022 at 2:54 PM
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Poison ivy is definitely a serious condition. I myself have not gotten it. Now poison oak is a different story.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on December 10, 2022 at 9:10 AM
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I was worried about coming to a Continent with poison ivy but I seem to be one of those lucky ones it doesn't affect. there isn't any here but it sure was filling the woods around the property in Canada.
posted by
Kabu
on December 9, 2022 at 12:17 PM
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My sister and brother-in-law once bought three goats for that purpose and kept the along the fence that separated them from the wooded lot next to them. The goats ate the poison ivy all right but the family had trouble when the goats then wanted to play with them. Sis kept getting it bad from the poison oils still on the outsides of their mouths.
posted by
TAPS.
on December 9, 2022 at 6:44 AM
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I forgot to add that if you wash the affected skin within an hour with Dawn dish soap, it gets rid of the toxic oils in the poison. I also bought OTC poison ivy pellets and cream. It helped, but it was still an itchy nightmare.
posted by
Sherri_G
on December 9, 2022 at 4:45 AM
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Good morning
Exactly! Those vines are the Devil. When we moved into our house eight years ago, one side of the house was covered in vines and our hedges had vines growing through them. After doing a hack job on them, I quickly learned that poison ivy and I do not get along. Living near the woods, we enjoy taking walks on the trails. Two years ago I found that posion sumac and I do not get along either. My ankles were a mess for about two weeks and I have a scar on my arm from it. My husband cut down a dead tree in our backyard this past summer that was covered with poison ivy vines. It grows like wildfire here in Pennsylvania. I have learned that goats are used to control it. They eat it with no issue. So now I know why we have so many goats in this state.
posted by
Sherri_G
on December 9, 2022 at 4:44 AM
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If it's not poison ivy, it poison oak or poison sumac... When I was a kid in California, it was the oak, growing all around a fallen tree trunk that we kids thought it was great fun to go rolling off of into the leaves. Could be we got scrubbed thoroughly down with Fels Naptha soap, I don't remember actually getting the rash.
I've heard that about how bad it is to burn it. I'm glad she recovered!
posted by
Ciel
on December 8, 2022 at 4:22 PM
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