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[Nathan Torgerson <nathantorgerson@yahoo.com>]

I had a lot of problems with animals this year with my bagged apples.  For the previous 5 years, animals left the apples bagged in clear plastic alone...but this year was different for some reason.  I never saw what was eating the apples, but by the "taste and pick another" I'm guessing it was squirrels. In two days they only bit a few but knocked off 80 other apples in the process.  I fought back by putting 8' fence posts around the tree and stringing two 6' tall chiken wire around them.  I topped the fence with bird netting. I couldn't cover the very top of the tree, but I sealed up most of it. At the bottom of the fence I put bricks down on the wire to prevent the squirrels from crawling underneath it.

  This dramatically l reduced my losses.  The fence staying up for the month I needed it.  They still ate at the apples they could reach through the fence, but I actually got my crop of apples harvested instead of stolen.

Nate

Donna &/or Kieran <holycow@cookeville.com> wrote:

Jim,   I find your racoon baffle interesting, but I'll bet you don't have honeysuckle climbing up every object that stands still like we do down here.  Donna

 

 

>A good way to handle raccoon problems is with an 8' chickenwire fence.  Staple the first 4' - 5' to posts and  let the remainder hang down toward the outside of the fenced-in area.  The coons crawl up the fence and back down where they came from.  It is best to put a cross bar at the top so the fence doesn't kink from the weight of the coon crawling down.  It takes a pretty smart coon to figure it out; most never do.

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