Please pull up all mushrooms in your yard!

[Ellymae]

With the rainy season here, the mushrooms are popping up daily. I do a yard walk every day with gloves on to pull them all up. If you see a wobbly, lethargic squirrel, he may have eaten a poisonous mushroom. They will start to throw up, because it attacks the liver. I lost one that was released to this.

http://www.petfinder.com/pet-care/pets-poisonous-mushrooms.html

Elly

[UDoWhat]

:thankyou Elly for this info. I had a bunch of mushrooms in my yard this week-end I pulled all of them and disposed of them. They frighten me. I worry about my releases too.

Marty

[pappy1264]

Thank you for that reminder! (My daughter knows if you see em', pull em'.....matter of fact, not to hijack, but we took a pic of one that had popped up and I had to take pics. This was a couple months ago...but just curious, anyone have a clue what this mushroom is???)

[Jackie in Tampa]

good advise...
I never never never feed wild mushrooms..
too scarey for amateurs.:eek:

Pappy, that is awesome...I don't want it, but it looks cool!
can I guess...a brain mushroom:rotfl

Fred says if they have a bell shape at ground level, they are bad news...:nono

[CritterMom]

Those are likely morels. They are considered a delicacy. But you need to consult someone who knows their mushrooms because Nature, in her infinite wisdom, made something to protect them from hungry everything - the FALSE MOREL which looks just like them. Ask Squirrely Steve, his wife, and Chuck about what false morels will do to you (lets just say you want to be sure there is more than one toilet i the house...:shakehead ).

I know the real morels normally grow in oak woods...dunno about the false ones.

[pappy1264]

I dunno......never had one like that before! We always get those huge brown kind of flat topped mushrooms. I know NOTHING about mushrooms (don't like them...lol) but I won't take a chance with my babies, so they will ALL be pulled to be safe!:)

[muffinsquirrel]

OK, I know I am running the risk of being tarred and feathered here, but I feed mine wild mushrooms whenever I can find them. I keep my little 'wild mushroom chart' close at hand so that I can check out what kind they are, and if I have any questions about it, I don't feed them. But my flyers, especially, think they are the greatest thing since sliced bread! I have never had any problems from the wild mushrooms, and my flyers will go for them before they will go for pecans!

The guide I use is "Mushrooms: An Introduction to Familiar North American Species". It is part of the 'Pocket Naturalist' series, published by Waterford Press, by Kavanagh and Leung. It's in full color, has a slick plastic-type finish, and will fit in your pocket. When I bought mine (at Barnes and Nobel) it was 5.99.

Feed wild mushrooms at your own risk, and only if you feel comfortable about it. My flyers love them, mushrooms are good for them, (in fact, necessary for the vit.D flyers need) and they are free. Just use common sense about them.

This is just my own experience with them. I am not telling anyone to use or not use wild mushrooms, but I, personally, have fed them for years and never had any problems.

muffinsquirrel