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Rabbits already chewed up some oak seedlings
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franktank232 z5 WI (
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Tue, Oct 30, 12 at 14:54
| Just a heads up about protecting young trees, I already found many trees chewed up by rabbits (oak, pear, apple). Nothing that won't come back next year. I had planned on putting metal hardware cloth around these trees, but just haven't had the time...i found time this morning and everything is now covered. Larger trees are never really bothered until the snow allows the rabbits to get up into the canopy to feed on the smaller branches. I really need to kill all of them or invest in a hawk :) |
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RE: Rabbits already chewed up some oak seedlings
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| the snow allows the rabbits to get up into the canopy ==>> exactly how much snow do you get... lol.. i am picturing them 60 feet up an oak .. lol ... ken |
Here is a link that might be useful: mmm wabbit stew ...
RE: Rabbits already chewed up some oak seedlings
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| Heh - If meat prices escalate too much, there's plenty of rabbits and squirrel to live on! If it wasn't for them, the settlers probably wouldn't have made it across America. |
RE: Rabbits already chewed up some oak seedlings
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| That one year not far back we had 20+ inches in one storm and i think ended the year pretty high...around here we don't get melt off ..once snow falls, it usually stays (although it does compress. I've never ate rabbit, but maybe the fur would be worth something? A guy I gave a couple trees to a few days ago had a big raccoon (dead) that he shot and figures it was worth $25. |
RE: Rabbits already chewed up some oak seedlings
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| To protect our young trees we use 3 foot hardware cloth with the mesh size of 1/4 inch. We keep it up year round, not just the winter time, to keep out rabbits, voles, and dogs that are everywhere around here. In the winter we put up extra fencing to increase the height. |
RE: Rabbits already chewed up some oak seedlings
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- Posted by lkz5ia z5 west iowa (My Page) on
Sat, Nov 3, 12 at 12:06
| I usually put the spiral tree guards on my trees in early october now. In the past, I would wait too long and voles/mice girdled a lot.. |
RE: Rabbits already chewed up some oak seedlings
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| Sorry to change the direction of this conversation, but what is a good rule of thumb for all-year caging? How long do you leave the cage up? I have a few sweet birch seedlings (extremely subject to browsing) that I immediately caged, as well as some yellow birch - How long would you leave the cages there? |
RE: Rabbits already chewed up some oak seedlings
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| Oh......this sounds familiar. When I start oaks, the chipmunks come into the greenhouses and chew them off shortly after they throw out their cotyledons to get at the nut as it rises out of the soil. I find pots of them with their young stems laying on the benches like mega cutworms got to them. Then when I plant the survivors, the mice and voles crawl under the snow to chew at the base of the tender saplings. They get a little bigger, and the cats will use them for scratching posts. Get 'em up a decent size and the bucks rub their velvet on them. sigh. |
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