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Would it be possible it might increase the amount of rabbits coming for a visit, they might tell their friends 🙂
They are hitting my Nanking Cherries pretty hard. Fortunately it is mainly on super low branches I planned on pruning out anyways. Might be time to stock the freezer!
Rabbits are delicious 🙂
I feed my rabbit pruned peach and apple sticks. He’s a dang wood chipper
I just gave some of my apple tree branches I pruned to my neighbor's goats. I did leave some branches on the ground and of course I feed my rabbit apple branches too. I want to put a reminder here—- don't give goats peach branches or plum branches, they are toxic to goats.
Only one small problem: in the wild, 90% of the baby rabbits don't survive the winter. Looks like your percent will be smaller. If the elements don't cull them, you may want to watch out for predators, attracted by a generous prey population.
Yeah, man, they are horrible for me in Buffalo they’re also eating my bamboo, at least with the running types they can’t saw down the culms… anything evergreen like laurels (which have cyanide in them) or Mahonia they’re just annihilating. I’ve even tried to cut bamboo branches down to feed them, but it just seems to embolden them. I’m sure your local foxes, crows, or coyotes, would love to be fed some of these bastards. Are you in the finger lakes/ Rochester region?
I learned a lot from your first video on rabbits, in fact, I learned just to watch for their tracks! I saw them eating lots of broccoli we overwintered in our garden. I plan to pile up some of our fruit tree pruning to actually attract them in for their manure on the garden beds
I always have extra squash; throw a few out every year in the same spot of e my hillside. I had foot traffic (rabbits, deer)to the spot this year before I tossed anything. I never really had a problem; blueberries got messed up a few years ago, could have been deer. I plant extra seed on the hillside every spring to keep them off my plot; seems to work. I haven't had a deer stuck in my fence in a few years
No rabbits here, just squirrels. They dig everything up!
Love your approach
0:02 thanks for confirming my feelings😂 coldest in my lifetime
Love this approach!
Rabbits ate my apple trees last year too!
I provide a pan of water and birdseed to the birds. Anything else that can be done. Bird seed is expensive, is there anything else I could do for the birds?
Thank you, great content, I so appreciated the after photos of the branches you laid out all nibbbled. The world needs more of this content.
Can you wrap the base of your trees with wire?
Have you ever had fried rabbit ??
Delicious
I've been planting more and more patches of my strain of Red Russian Kale around my fruit trees since the rabbits live in such close proximity. They seem to like the kale more than the trees, but we've got a deep snow cover too in Massachusetts, so they're needing something to eat right now. Thank you for the reminder. Time to get the shears cleaned up! 😃
Always handy to have some sumac, raspberries and fruit tree cuttings to keep the rabbits happy, and less likely to eat everything else.
I had to laugh at your comment about "enemies in the landscape." We have almost no rabbits at our farm because of hawks and our outdoor dogs devoting themselves to hunting them. We encourage the hawks by leaving high places for them to perch, and then make sure our chickens have lots of thorny brushy things to hide under.
Rabbits have killed a number of my fruit trees in recent winters, I didn't realise until too late. Can a young tree be grafted below where they have chewed to be able to grow another one?
If in autumn you ever have deer rubbing antlers on your trees just twist a bare 2 foot metal strand of wire around the trunk. The antlers have the nerve sensitivity of your teeth. Chew on a small piece of foil from a hersey kiss chocolate and you will feel the shock. I have many deer pets and this wire trick will protect young trees 100% Even stops saplings already being rubbed. Take of the thin 2 ft wire and save it until next autumn. I wish someone told me this decades ago. It works perfect
There are not nearly enough asterisks around that ****may**** heal. Might be better to just re-craft it in the spring by operating out the damaged part.
Any concern that the rabbit population will become unmanageable if they are supported on the landscape vs discouraged? I like your approach, I've just lost many plants to rabbits these last two winters and its frustrating!!
Looks like you could use several bags of blood meal.
It is good to see you out taking care of your plantings over winter. It is amazing how fast the animals have eaten anything ( I meant everything) that was growing in my yard. Lots of tracks and poop from a variety of animals. Oval bare spots in the snow where the deer have slept. The high levels of snow let smaller animals get over fencing. Nothing was spared. I hope things come back from the roots this spring. You have more dense vegetation than I do. When the animals eat things that are fenced in, how do I ever get perennials established for growing food so humans can eat and not just the animals? Hope you and your loved ones are warm and safe. Thank you.
how cold did it became?