Remote NT Cattle Station Loses Six Horses To Same Native Plant That Killed 24 Dogs in Victoria

A number of horses across the Northern Territory have perished after eating the native legume Indigofera.

At Waite River Station on the Utopian homelands in Central Australia, Dennis and Ley Kunoth have lost six out of 11 work and camp drafting horses this year to the toxic native plant.

The same plant led to the deaths of 24 dogs in Victoria earlier this year after horse meat contaminated with indospicine was used in pet food.

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By Hugo Rikard-Bell / ABC Rural