Dang Deers!

[TJay]

We planted some trees in November and I guess one of the local bucks was feeling rutty. Just happened night before last. I mean, what are they doing still holding anyway? Dadgummit.
Hope they survive.

 

[antharper]

It’s the fresh wood chips around the bottom . He thought another buck had made them from rubbing the tree

 

[Jim Boyd]

Feel your pain.

Ours get pounded. Pears and sawtooths - they don’t care.

Our sawtooths are starting to crown now and they make scrapes under them, which is ok - but they are tearing the lower limbs off.

May have to shoot a few of the jokers.


Good luck!

 

[Nicodemus]

We planted some trees in November and I guess one of the local bucks was feeling rutty. Just happened night before last. I mean, what are they doing still holding anyway? Dadgummit.
Hope they survive.

If it has been girdled it, it will die.

 

[TJay]

If it has been girdled it, it will die.

It is very close to being girdled, I'm not optimistic. I wonder how the little dwarf Magnolia will fare?

 

[Lukikus2]

First magnolia I have ever seen rubbed. Guess he didn’t like them as bad as I do! Lol

 

[slow motion]

First magnolia I have ever seen rubbed. Guess he didn’t like them as bad as I do! Lol

Never thought about it until I read your post. This is the only 1 I remember seeing.

 

[Buckstop]

Been close to pulling the hog wire from around our pear trees but that makes me think different. 5 years old and about 6” diameter. Will give it a little longer .

 

[Wanderlust]

First magnolia I have ever seen rubbed. Guess he didn’t like them as bad as I do! Lol

In my experience deer will go out of their way to rub a magnolia or a ceder

 

[NCHillbilly]

They destroyed a couple of my chestnuts last fall.

 

[Jim Boyd]

Been close to pulling the hog wire from around our pear trees but that makes me think different. 5 years old and about 6” diameter. Will give it a little longer .

5 years and 6” sounds great!

 

[Buckstop]

5 years and 6” sounds great!

We had two pears on the largest of our seven trees last year. Hoping this year is the one when they start producing.