I also have a very healthy guardian dog that marks territory like a champ.
I don't do anything to save the trees and I never really find any totally girdled so there might be some correlation. I've had brush piles scattered around my land and also have hundreds of wild apple trees that pop up here and there. If there is ample wood lying around, easy to find and plentiful, might the rabbits not be more likely to gorge themselves thereupon and thus be less likely to find and girdle the scattered living trees? Makes me wonder if this might not be an easy way to deter them from debarking apple tree saplings one is trying to establish. Give it a rinse (to wash the rabbit spit off ) and head to the chop saw to make apple biscuits for the smoker.Ī tangent, perhaps, but another potential use for branches and twigs: in the past I have just left piles of prunings lying around, and have noticed that our resident wild bunnies feast on them. Eight growing fryers will strip a 1/2 inch thick, 2foot long stick in about a minute and a half. It works really well in the growers' cage. If you find a way to keep the wood from hitting the bottom of the cage, it'll stay pretty clean. They eat all the green bark off and leave a nice clean stick ready to use in the smoker. Craig Dobbelyu wrote:I used to feed apple wood branches to my rabbits.