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[Louis Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>]

I can assure you - from extensive personal experiences - that horses will
walk a half mile through lush grass/clover to eat the top out of or girdle a
desirable tree.
Cattle will mostly just rub on them - once they have a 4+" diameter trunk
and are limbed up 5-6 ft or so, they can't/won't do much damage.

Lucky

On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Deb S <debs913@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have had a variety of livestock.  Chickens and geese are fine for
> the orchard, but I would not put equines or ruminants in an orchard.
> Besides toxicity issues to the livestock (e.g. wilted cherry leaves
> and branches are lethal), some livestock will strip leaves and bark
> (sheep, goats) and rub on and break branches and bark (cattle, hogs).
>
> I expect equines would also be really hard on trees, but don't have
> direct experience.
>
> deb
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