Dang Rabbits

Pretty much done in my Honey Crisp.
The snow is still too high to see if my pear trees made it.

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Really tall rabbits? Did they have a tiny little rabbit boom truck? Scaffolding? Dang, they did a number there.

im assuming the snow was all drifted in there lol. this winter i havent seen hardly any around my place. last year they were thick and we were trapping them

The snow was about 2 feet higher a couple weeks ago, every day I see a bit more damage.
This happened a few years ago when we had a good heap of snow. They ate 2 of my crab apples like this and the died.
I still have a few feet of snow by the last survivors so I’m crossing my fingers on those guys.

Eelpoutguy wrote:

They ate 2 of my crab apples like this and the died.

I’ve had that happen to a small, young crab apple tree too. The bark was entirely stripped off the lower 18 inches of the tree trunk. Never had buds or leaves the following spring because of it. They killed that tree stone dead.

Nothing tastes better then apple bark fed rabbits. (If you haven’t heard)

Damn!

DANG!
You guys got me thinking, so I did a little investigating.
The little one was a Father’s Day tree my kids gave me.

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Gotta wrap those fruit trees in the fall and keep that snow away from the trunks.

I’d being sighting in a good pellet rifle and keep it handy.

Holy smokes those things went to town on that bark.

I have some hay bales and they chomp on them… maybe some tree wrap & a single bale next year discourages it ?

I better check my new crab apple tree. That sucks EPG.

Rabbit slow cooked over applewood chips, yum!

Holy cow batman they destroyed that tree!

I had that problem. Till my row of white pines got about 25′ tall and a pair of owls made them their home. Used to see over a dozen rabbits driving in the driveway at night. After the owls set up camp. Hardly ever saw one.

Hey guys you could try wrapping the tree damage with grafting tape. I had rabbits do this to one of my favorite apple trees last winter. I thought it was a goner for sure, but it ended up surviving and producing.

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Drop another bottle of Tequila. Your squeal should scare them away for a while. That sucks. I need to check my trees now. The rabbits have been thick for me this year.

We planted an apple last year. Just before it froze I sprayed the trunk with that black cut sealer. When that was dry I slipped a 3 foot section of foam pipe insulation tube over it. Where the tube stopped and the sprayed trunk was still accessible to those fuzzy suckers I saw tracks in the snow around the tree in the snow but they didn’t chew even though they appeared to be thinking about it. Where rabbits chewed on my Mother’s delectables I’d wrap them and the critters left them alone. The spray trick came from the garden center where the tree was bought.

.22 LR or pellet gun to thin the herd. Hardware cloth or garden mesh staked a few inches away from the trunk in fall. They ate my wife’s tulips and irises a few years back, I now have carte blanche to kill the wabbits.

How to get rid of rabbits.

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I used to have a rabbit problem, now the rabbits are the ones with a problem

We eat rabbit all winter long lol

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EP you need something like a 22 or a 410 to put the hurt on the little ba$t@rds.
I wonder if you could get those 2 in the same gun?

We have a McIntosh and a honeycrisp. The d**n bunnies definitely prefer the honeycrisp.

I looked out the window this morning and saw two deer working on my honey crisp. When I yelled at them another deer working on a pear tree took off.

Now thats a great picture!!

stevenoak wrote:

Used to see over a dozen rabbits driving in the driveway at night.

Man, they’ll issue a drivers license to ANYONE these days!

EPG, you are now the wabbit slayer, here is your anthem.

EPG
Look at the positive side.
MORE FIREWOOD!!!!

I’m surprised you guys made it that far without wrapping your trees.

Iowaboy1 wrote:

EPG, you are now the wabbit slayer, here is your anthem.

Lol, I think EPG could pull that look off!