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Post by Sandbur on Jan 20, 2021 18:09:33 GMT -6
Do deer eat hemlock?
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Post by smsmith on Jan 21, 2021 20:17:36 GMT -6
I didn't mention ROD as I thought the question was related to trees/varieties that I had dropped with the chainsaw.
ROD gets browsed here, but not to the extreme. New growth gets nipped down to maybe 1/8" caliper.
Grey dogwood gets very little browse pressure.
I've been struggling to ID a few shrubs/small trees this winter. I'm thinking they are large single stemmed silky dogwoods right now. They aren't getting much pressure either. I need to make a point of looking at them again once they've leafed out.
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Post by wklman on Jan 21, 2021 20:21:04 GMT -6
Prickly ash. Best deer food on the market.
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Post by smsmith on Jan 21, 2021 20:22:38 GMT -6
Prickly ash. Best deer food on the market. And super cheap  |
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Post by benmnwi on Jan 21, 2021 20:39:39 GMT -6
Do you see browsing on prickly ash during the growing season or winter? I see a little during the growing season, but very little in winter.
It is still better than buckthorn though, so I'll take prickly ash since they seem to grow in similar areas.
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Post by smsmith on Jan 21, 2021 20:55:46 GMT -6
Do you see browsing on prickly ash during the growing season or winter? I see a little during the growing season, but very little in winter. It is still better than buckthorn though, so I'll take prickly ash since they seem to grow in similar areas. Prickly ash gets browsed heavily here from spring green up through fall. The very ends of branches get nipped during winter, but that's about it. FTR...the young buckthorn I find here is browsed pretty heavily. Once it gets to maybe 4-5'...it grows out of control. |
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Post by Tooln on Jan 22, 2021 7:27:09 GMT -6
It was maple on my 40 when I had it.
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Post by honker on Jan 23, 2021 20:26:19 GMT -6
I knocked down 3 maples on the 3rd that have been worked over good since then.   |
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Post by nhmountains on Jan 24, 2021 5:27:49 GMT -6
I dropped a very large hemlock on the edge of my main orchard last winter thinking they’d browse it. I put a camera on it and it saw very little browse so I guess the deer here in NH like other browse instead. |
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Post by chummer16 on Jan 24, 2021 6:42:02 GMT -6
I would never cut one down as they are one of my favorite trees but we have had a few blow over and the deer eat every last bit of green they can reach. I have many mature hemlock but I don’t remember seeing any under 6’ tall. |
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Post by Freeborn on Jan 24, 2021 6:49:03 GMT -6
American Plum is browsed heavily on my place. They also sucker like crazy. They do have to be protected as the deer will eat seedlings like carrots if not protected.
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Post by Reagan on Jan 24, 2021 9:04:08 GMT -6
We cut a lot of ash and maple at my old place. The deer hammered the stump sprouts and tops.
I have only cut sweet gum on the new place and they don’t touch that stuff. I do find a lot of oak seedlings that seem to be ignored.
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Post by smsmith on Jan 24, 2021 9:28:22 GMT -6
American Plum is browsed heavily on my place. They also sucker like crazy. They do have to be protected as the deer will eat seedlings like carrots if not protected. That's interesting. Plum doesn't get much browse pressure here. |
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Post by nhmountains on Feb 4, 2021 17:23:27 GMT -6
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Post by Bob on Feb 4, 2021 17:36:22 GMT -6
The deer have been hitting the white birch tops I dropped earlier this winter. They’d cleaned up the brown ash tops is dropped. Surprisingly they haven’t been hitting the maple tops as much yet. That deer had bedded there a few weeks ago. Judging by that little bit of snow, they don't look like they're too hard up for food. |
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