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do u guys know if it is something u can buy or order or would u have to find some and plant it.
thanks, Josh

Sometimes you can find it on mail order nurseries in the southwest or you can collect it yourself. From my experience it does not do well out of its natural area as a potted plant and if your looking for food for lizards they usually don't eat it anyway. Check with DVL on this forum. I think he said it is one of the last plants they would eat in his pen.

Toms right--- my chucks consider this the very last resort --short of Hari-Kari. I am not sure I have really seen my chucks eat the flowers-- never the leaves. My DIs have eaten a few flowers but only the flowers, and not many of em either. I grow Ceosote in the pen along with stuff like Ragweed, Gaillardia ( sp??) , dandelion, many plants in the Mallow family sunflowers ( the eat on the leaves), Palafoxia ( they love flowers & nibble leaves ) Sweet Allysum, many unidentified pasture weeds, Euphorbias ( the native weedy prostrate types), Kidneywod---- and the list goes on. I even grow Atriplex-- which recieves 5 bites a year. I have a small Triangular Leaved Ambrosia delotoides ( sp?????) ( ragweed family)-- a grey-leaved subshrub from Az that they love-- I hope they don't love it to death. In captivity offer roses, Mallow/ Rose family, daylily flowers along with the typ veggie stuff. If possible-- grow a Palo Verde tree. I have some blooming now so I just break off small limbs when they are loaded with flowers--- keeps them thorny devils from getting me when I mow.

On to mowing------naw---- we'll save that for a whole new thread!!!

I grow stuff in the pen that is considered toxic to people & cattle but -- the chucks seem to not be bothered by what ever they decide to eat.

Chopper Dave

The only time I have ever seen a chuck eat it is in drought conditions when it was basically the only thing available. I saw several female chucks munching on it in Berdoo Canyon, CA in 2000 when it was about the only plant matter available.

the chucks were very skinny with hip bones and ribs showing.

the Grim Reaper Dude looking them Eyeball to Eyeball. If they really had any preference for it--- they could stay in better health despite the very worse conditions. But-- I still like the smell of it !!!!!!!!!
It just taste like ship!@ ( sp/???)
Later

Creosote Dave