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["Ginda Fisher" <list@ginda.us>]

Rabbit is a pleasant, mild-flavored meat that you can pass off as chicken if 
your guests aren't paying too much attention to the flavor. But I doubt I 
could trap enough to prevent damage.

Or maybe I could. Last year we had an extraodinary abundance of 
rabbits--everyone commented on it--and then we had an extraordinary volume of 
snow. Maybe, had the population been normal, they wouldn't have eaten my 
trees. I guess we will never know.

Re the trees: I don't know if it was clear from my initial post, but the 
bottom half or 2/3 of every branch is undamaged. I expect the branches will 
survive a year or two with no surgery. I was just wondering if they might 
heal long term, or if I need to start trying to replace them now.

-- GindaOn Apr 11, 2011 7:30 AM, Amelia Hayner <abhayner@gmail.com> 
wrote: 

I think this is an excellent argument for rabbit stew, nicely apple

flavored.

I am reading a book right now, "A Pig in Provence" that actually makes

rabbit sound delicious.

Amy



On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us> wrote:



> Thanks, Amy.  That actually argues that it's not worth it.  There's no 
real

> value in keeping the limbs for one or two seasons.  In the one case, I 
like

> the placement of the limb, but the tree is large enough to do fine 
without

> it, and tall and full enough that it's unlikely to replace a limb that 
low.

>  In the other, the damaged limbs, which I grafted on 10 years ago, are 
the

> only thing interesting about the tree, which is otherwise a random 
seedling

> crab.

>

> Ginda

> eastern MA, zone 6

>

>  On Apr 10, 2011, at 8:19 PM, Amelia Hayner wrote:

>

> > Hi Ginda

> > he is right, that does work- speaking from experience with 
goat/sheep

> > partially girdling branches. Most of the time, LOTS of new growths 
spring

> up

> > around the wounds. you can just pick what you want, pull the rest 
off-

> > basically, this is just first aid, until you can get your next set 
of

> > scaffolding branches up and going- cause under the weight of fruit, 
it

> will

> > tend to snap at the weak place.

> > Amy

> >

> > On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 6:26 PM, david liezen 
<chandos49@hotmail.com>

> wrote:

> >

> >>

> >> Ginda,

> >> I haven't tried this - here in town I have no damage from 
rabbits - but

> it

> >> occurs to me you could cut a twig from whatever branch is 
damaged and

> >> "bridge graft" it over some of the damage.

> >>

> >> You might try splitting a twig and inserting each end into a 
slit in the

> >> bark on either side of the damage, tie off with grafting tape 
and look

> in on

> >> it each week to see how it does. By June I imagine the tape 
would no

> longer

> >> be needed, but you must be the judge of that.

> >>

> >> Hope you save your apple grafts.

> >>

> >> Dave Liezen

> >>

> >>> From: list@ginda.us

> >>> Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 21:38:20 -0400

> >>> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org

> >>> Subject: [NAFEX] rabbit damage to apple trees

> >>>

> >>> Over the winter, the high snow allowed rabbits to crew on 
limbs of my

> >> apple trees. They have removed quite a lot of bark from the top 
side of

> many

> >> major branches, and white wood shows. I really don't want to 
prune off

> all

> >> the damaged wood if I don't have to. On one tree, a well-placed 
scaffold

> is

> >> damaged, and on another, there's damage on almost all of the 
parts that

> were

> >> grafted. (It's a crab apple with several eating apples grafted 
on years

> >> ago.)

> >>>

> >>> So -- Do I have to remove the damaged limbs? Is the bark 
along the

> bottom

> >> of each branch enough to keep it alive? Or will it be weak and 
prone to

> rot

> >> even if it doesn't die right away?

> >>>

> >>> thanks,

> >>> Ginda

> >>> eastern MA, zone 6

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