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Re: Mice VS Apple Trees [Re: 160user] #6822997
03/30/20 12:36 PM
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you could try a bridge graft but that would be a long bridge.

Re: Mice VS Apple Trees [Re: 160user] #6823005
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Looks like shrews to me.


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Re: Mice VS Apple Trees [Re: 160user] #6823195
03/30/20 03:39 PM
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Bruce T shrews are insect eaters and sometimes predators of voles and mice.

did not that young trapper in your household get a 22 for all his effort last fall;?
clean up a shooting lane;
a little fresh clippings on the ground around the damage;
led Christmas lights in the tree;
Set up a picnic bench or shooting bench 20 yards away;
and let the outdoor education begin;

Remember in the lesson;It's not the wall of lead that gets them.

Re: Mice VS Apple Trees [Re: 160user] #6823200
03/30/20 03:44 PM
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Feral cats do have their uses.

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Re: Mice VS Apple Trees [Re: Northof50] #6823257
03/30/20 04:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Northof50
Bruce T shrews are insect eaters and sometimes predators of voles and mice.

did not that young trapper in your household get a 22 for all his effort last fall;?
clean up a shooting lane;
a little fresh clippings on the ground around the damage;
led Christmas lights in the tree;
Set up a picnic bench or shooting bench 20 yards away;
and let the outdoor education begin;

Remember in the lesson;It's not the wall of lead that gets them.

I must be mixed up between shrews and voles.


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Re: Mice VS Apple Trees [Re: 160user] #6823281
03/30/20 05:04 PM
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Probably the best you can do now is to cut them off and hopefully a sucker comes out of the stump.

I worry about this happening every winter.

Re: Mice VS Apple Trees [Re: 160user] #6823359
03/30/20 06:01 PM
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If possible after whip grafting, your tree needs extreme pruning, it wont kill tree providing you can whip graft your tree.


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Re: Mice VS Apple Trees [Re: 160user] #6823371
03/30/20 06:11 PM
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the best thing you can do for your fruit trees is white paint latex paint , paint from lowest branch down to ground , nothing will eat the bark , my dad, and grandpa did this to every fruit tree, every summer I lost one tree this year the only one I didn't paint , frown

Re: Mice VS Apple Trees [Re: 160user] #6823471
03/30/20 07:29 PM
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You will have suckers come up from the ground. Choose one good one from the north side of the stump and graft onto it later.


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Re: Mice VS Apple Trees [Re: 160user] #6823566
03/30/20 08:19 PM
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Those drain sleeves are great areas for placing a mouse pacs in the fall into, for a little munches, and usually kept away from dogs if wired around shut.

Re: Mice VS Apple Trees [Re: 160user] #6823776
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I would use rodent bait stations and professional grade rat bait if I had your problem.


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Re: Mice VS Apple Trees [Re: run] #6823819
03/30/20 10:40 PM
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I guess over the years I have lost fruit trees and had bad luck about everyway a guy could.
First of all it is low where I live and frost gets the blossoms every now and again.
Had problems with the under the snow critters like Rob has.
Deer, o ya, both eating the branches and bucks rubbing on the trees.
One year it looked like I was gonna have a nice crop of both apples and pears and
whilst I was gone to Canada in late September fishing someone came and stole all the fruit.
Couple years ago the apples were so plentiful a tree split because of the weight of them and died.
I've had them just up and die for no apparent reason.
Some years they get blight and rust no matter how much I spray them.
Never have been able to keep more than 6 alive at any given time. lol

Zim

Re: Mice VS Apple Trees [Re: 160user] #6824108
03/31/20 08:06 AM
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You can also cut screen wire. Put around tree and staple together. But that is not groundhog proof. Lost a peach tree last year to groundhog. No more Mr. nice guy this year.

Re: Mice VS Apple Trees [Re: 160user] #6824165
03/31/20 09:09 AM
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I like using coni- bears on ground hogs.


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Re: Mice VS Apple Trees [Re: 160user] #6824311
03/31/20 11:29 AM
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I would not use the poison. Some states are testing foxes and finding that they are being killed by second hand poisoning from eating the dead mice or rodents, also birds of prey are being killed.

Re: Mice VS Apple Trees [Re: 160user] #6824363
03/31/20 12:18 PM
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I've put 5 ft plastic tree tubes around my apple trees. mainly because of the deer.
But mice/voles got inside some of the tubes and made nests inside the tubes.
While inside they chewed the trees up.
It doesn't seem to have killed the trees yet.

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