An animal which has been poisoned as a result of eating Darling pea, a poisonous plant of South Australia, Queensland, and New South Wales.
most pea-eaters are a dead loss to their owners
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Salt is useful in combating internal worms, and whether worms drive sheep to become pea-eaters is a problem not yet satisfactorily cleared.
In a flock depastured in paddocks where the Darling pea grows, most pea-eaters are a dead loss to their owners.
The confirmed pea-eater cattle then went into the paddock to find the odd bits the other cattle had missed and were left there to "do or die."
Chemical analysis has not isolated a toxic principle, and examination of the bodies of these pea-eaters has not yet thrown clear light upon the subject.
Light grazing will provide opportunities for the pea-eaters to consume enough of the plant to cause permanent injury to the brain.
The more pea-eaters you have, the less poison there is for each animal.
It had missed last shearing, which suggested that it could be a pea-eater.
Even though removed to good grass country, if confirmed pea-eaters, they remain poor.
They separate from the flock, wander about listlessly, and are known to the shepherds as pea-eaters.
Sheep No. 12 is pea-eater, aged two years, in poor condition, very jerky in its movement.