----- Original Message ---- From: "Dianne Ste;phany" <iluvdanc@rochester.rr.com> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 10:50:28 AM Subject: [NAFEX] geese in orchard
I have been following the
livestock in the orchard discussion and would like to add: Fred always had
a dozen or so geese in his apple orchard. They ate the fallen apples, but being
herbivores did not eat the insects. So there were no windfalls for people
to pick up and eat. Nobody got sick from e. coli poisoning and they had
Christmas goose that was very sweet and tender. These geese had
acres of established orchard to roam during the day and were penned at
night- no tree damage. He did lose a couple of geese he thought to
owls.
His daughter had
some goslings penned in a small area which included apple
trees from 3 to 5 inches diameter and the goslings (whether from
boredom or hunger) ate the bark and girded several trees
killing them.
I think that chickens which are omnivores
would also control insect pests, but have no experience with them.
Thanks
Dianne
Rochester NY- where we are getting 6 inches of
heavy wet snow and not all the leaves have fallen off of all the apple trees
yet.
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