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Post by sd51555 on Jan 20, 2021 8:00:27 GMT -6
I've been surprised in one way or another every place I've farted around with habitat stuff, what deer will eat. In southern MN it was sumac. In northern MN it is ash, and I don't see any interest in poplar once it's cut down. If/when you knock stuff down, what have you seen to be your top few most highly desired browse from cutting (not regen).
By me, I can only review a couple. Poplar doesn't get eaten as fallen tops. But ash seems to be #1 and then birch as a distant #2. Zero interest in tag alder or diamond willow. Haven't cut much else to know if they eat it.
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Post by batman on Jan 20, 2021 8:05:14 GMT -6
Red oak.
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Post by Catscratch on Jan 20, 2021 8:40:59 GMT -6
Hedge (Osage Orange), Mulberry, and anything I plant (especially Sawtooth oak).
I need to pay better attention to the native stuff popping up. Most ground here has cattle on it and they seem to eat anything young and woody. Hard to tell the difference between deer browsing and cattle browsing. Where I have fenced cattle off is exploding with Redbud, Locust, and Native oaks (Reds, Burrs, and Chinkapins). I suspect that these are species eaten by cattle but not preferred by deer, otherwise the deer would keep them down.
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Post by batman on Jan 20, 2021 9:33:53 GMT -6
Hedge (Osage Orange), Mulberry, and anything I plant (especially Sawtooth oak). I need to pay better attention to the native stuff popping up. Most ground here has cattle on it and they seem to eat anything young and woody. Hard to tell the difference between deer browsing and cattle browsing. Where I have fenced cattle off is exploding with Redbud, Locust, and Native oaks (Reds, Burrs, and Chinkapins). I suspect that these are species eaten by cattle but not preferred by deer, otherwise the deer would keep them down. Are you fencing off areas for deer to bed in pastures?
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Post by smsmith on Jan 20, 2021 9:41:12 GMT -6
Most everything I've dropped gets at least the tips browsed. Aspen, maple, and boxelder tops are highly favored. Birch, ash, and ironwood get used, but nowhere near as much as the previous 3. I haven't dropped that many oaks, but those that I have certainly get browsed. Hackberry also gets browsed, but I try to leave as many of those as I can.
Tag alder and any willows get next to zero use.
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Post by Catscratch on Jan 20, 2021 9:53:27 GMT -6
Hedge (Osage Orange), Mulberry, and anything I plant (especially Sawtooth oak). I need to pay better attention to the native stuff popping up. Most ground here has cattle on it and they seem to eat anything young and woody. Hard to tell the difference between deer browsing and cattle browsing. Where I have fenced cattle off is exploding with Redbud, Locust, and Native oaks (Reds, Burrs, and Chinkapins). I suspect that these are species eaten by cattle but not preferred by deer, otherwise the deer would keep them down. Are you fencing off areas for deer to bed in pastures? I did not intend for it to be bedding as much as a place to let early successional plants grow. More food for deer and more cover for quail. 45 acres fenced. Approximately 15 acres of it is timber, about 3 acres of plots/fruit trees, and 27 in grass. The 27 in grass has plenty of beds in it and is used MUCH more than it had been previously. I wanted thickets and forbs mixed with grasses and cedars.
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Post by nhmountains on Jan 20, 2021 10:49:46 GMT -6
Here in NH it's: apple trees raspberries and blackberries- especially the leaves after the first frost chestnuts maples- browse tips and eating the leaves after the first frost ash birch poplar
hemlock strip bark from sumac in death mode They won't touch beech.
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Post by Sandbur on Jan 20, 2021 11:38:28 GMT -6
Nobody mentioned ROD. Heavily used here. Just the very tops of the cottonwood I dropped are getting nibbled on.
A bad winter in the north country and then a popple cut has the tops heavily browsed.
White cedar is browsed up north but ignored where I live in ag country.
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Post by benmnwi on Jan 20, 2021 12:06:06 GMT -6
In SE MN oaks and elms are browsed heavily in winter when I drop them. Living ROD and wild plums are also browsed heavily.
My deer don't like to eat buckthorn or boxelder unfortunately.
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Post by chummer16 on Jan 20, 2021 12:10:48 GMT -6
Berry bushes Apple Dogwood Ninebark Hemlock Everything else except beech
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Post by nhmountains on Jan 20, 2021 12:17:39 GMT -6
Nobody mentioned ROD. Heavily used here. Just the very tops of the cottonwood I dropped are getting nibbled on. A bad winter in the north country and then a popple cut has the tops heavily browsed. White cedar is browsed up north but ignored where I live in ag country. I’ve ordered 100 ROD from Cold Stream Farm for this spring. I’ve got a couple locations where there’s currently a few tag alders where I think it would do well.
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Post by honker on Jan 20, 2021 13:51:46 GMT -6
To answer the specific question of what they eat when I knock them down it would be Maple Red Oak - I rarely cut these down unless two are competing Birch Ash
They don’t seem to pay much attention to poplar, ironwood, tag alder, or buckthorn unfortunately when I clear them.
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Post by Sandbur on Jan 20, 2021 16:46:44 GMT -6
Nobody mentioned ROD. Heavily used here. Just the very tops of the cottonwood I dropped are getting nibbled on. A bad winter in the north country and then a popple cut has the tops heavily browsed. White cedar is browsed up north but ignored where I live in ag country. I’ve ordered 100 ROD from Cold Stream Farm for this spring. I’ve got a couple locations where there’s currently a few tag alders where I think it would do well. Do you have native ROD?
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Post by nhmountains on Jan 20, 2021 16:54:45 GMT -6
I’ve ordered 100 ROD from Cold Stream Farm for this spring. I’ve got a couple locations where there’s currently a few tag alders where I think it would do well. Do you have native ROD? None on my property but, I’ve found some along roads and power lines within a few miles of my camp.
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Post by nhmountains on Jan 20, 2021 17:18:03 GMT -6
I’ve yet to see a wild plum here though.
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