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["Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>]

People are probably talking about cottontails.  You probaly have
snowshoe hares which stay in the woods.  You may have other hares but
not cottontails.  You may not have gray squirrels which are
destructive to tree fruit.

---- Original Message ----
From: skkewing@yahoo.com
To: list@ginda.us, nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] [Bulk]  Protecting Apples
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 19:23:04 -0700 (PDT)

>Funny thing is that we don't seem to have any rabbits on our property
>and very few squirrels either so I can't comment on those critters. 
>I'm guessing that we don't have many squirrels because we don't have
>any cone bearing aged conifers on our property and not very many
>hazelnuts either.
>
>Sarah 
>zone 3
>Edmonton, AB
>
>
>--- On Fri, 6/3/11, Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us> wrote:
>
>> From: Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>
>> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] [Bulk]  Protecting Apples
>> To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>> Received: Friday, June 3, 2011, 5:04 PM
>> How is he with squirrels?
>> 
>> -- GindaOn Jun 3, 2011 12:36 PM, Sarah Kehler Ewing
>> &lt;skkewing@yahoo.com&gt;
>> wrote: 
>> 
>> Ha, ha, ha!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> May I recommend a Great Pyrenees?  They don't eat
>> nearly as much as you would think since they are HUGE, but
>> they hate deer and coyotes and foxes with a passion and
>> simply will not allow them anywhere near their chosen
>> territory.  We love ours and have not had a bite of
>> deer damage in the orchard since he joined our family 4
>> years ago.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Sarah 
>> 
>> zone 3
>> 
>> Edmonton, AB
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --- On Fri, 6/3/11, S &amp; E Hills &lt;ehills7408@wowway.com&gt;
>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> &gt; From: S &amp; E Hills &lt;ehills7408@wowway.com&gt;
>> 
>> &gt; Subject: Re: [NAFEX] [Bulk]  Protecting
>> Apples
>> 
>> &gt; To: "'North American Fruit Explorers'"
>&lt;nafex@lists.ibiblio.org&gt;
>> 
>> &gt; Received: Friday, June 3, 2011, 1:40 AM
>> 
>> &gt; 
>> 
>> &gt; 
>> 
>> &gt; Wow, 
>> 
>> &gt; 
>> 
>> &gt; We come off as a pretty mercenary group.&nbsp;
>> No one
>> 
>> &gt; mentioned the noose traps,
>> 
>> &gt; I'm shocked.
>> 
>> &gt; 
>> 
>> &gt; She's a girl living with her parents in
>> California.&nbsp;
>> 
>> &gt; She'll end up in
>> 
>> &gt; therapy for life, or wanted.&nbsp; 
>> 
>> &gt; 
>> 
>> &gt; There are motion detecting sprinklers that could
>> deter
>> 
>> &gt; squirrels (with a few
>> 
>> &gt; well placed solar lights you could protect at
>> night.&nbsp;
>> 
>> &gt; It would mean leaving
>> 
>> &gt; a hose on (but not spraying).&nbsp; Night
>> Guard solar
>> 
>> &gt; thingies have helped for me
>> 
>> &gt; significantly with major damage and loss of
>> fruit.
>> 
>> &gt; 
>> 
>> &gt; They make these tape things that scare birds by
>> flashing
>> 
>> &gt; and making an
>> 
>> &gt; irritating sound (I have not tried them, only seen
>> them in
>> 
>> &gt; catalogs)
>> 
>> &gt; 
>> 
>> &gt; A jack Russell is pretty effective (and cute)
>> 
>> &gt; 
>> 
>> &gt; 
>> 
>> &gt; Scott Hills
>> 
>> &gt; Zone 6b Michigan
>> 
>> &gt; 
>> 
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