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Post by rossman40 on Sept 7, 2010 12:45:19 GMT -5
Doing a recon on the farm I noticed a lot of the white oaks are producing what appears to be a very good crop of acorns this year. A few years ago we had a devastating ice storm that stripped a lot of the trees. This will be the first good crop of white oak acorns the deer have seen since.  I am changing some of my plans to pay attention to a couple of hot spots where the entire hillside is white oaks. The deer will usually forage on this hills in the past even in the day. |
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Post by tar12 on Sept 7, 2010 16:08:17 GMT -5
You have me fired up! ;D We are going to have a excellent mast crop here as well.I have been squirrel hunting my pup and paying attention.It is looking good! Good luck to you!
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Post by tasaman on Sept 26, 2010 9:10:17 GMT -5
Rossman, we have those same acorns in KY and for whatever reason I don't know the deer won't touch them. I can't swear to it but I think what you have there is a swamp chestnut oak. Our white oaks are smaller and the leaves are rounded at the points. But yes, the acorns are everywhere right now. Our persimmons have already fallen and I don't see anymore in the trees. Went out yesterday and saw a momma and two fawns vacuuming up red oak acorns like they were on blue light special!
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Post by rossman40 on Sept 27, 2010 0:54:29 GMT -5
Your right on that, this is ether a chestnut but probly more likly a chinkapin oak, both varieties are from the white oak family. I didn't look at the bark on the tree which the chestnut has a real distinctive bark. There is a swamp white oak that is also similar. They munch these pretty heavy up here and will go for them first because most of the white oak family are sweeter then the red oak family which can be bitter. There is a one mile long ridge that runs north-south with the east slope in white oak varieties and the west side primarily in red oaks just southwest of my morning stand. I've watch them root around in the afternoon.
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Post by zakjak221 on Oct 3, 2010 15:09:24 GMT -5
Rossman,
I'm getting lots of Red Oak Nuts & Burr Oak nuts on only one of my Two Burr Oak trees in So. Illinois.
Had a much better harvest last year,even though others did not?
I will say that the corn/beans here is being harvested earlier than I ever remember though--due to the dry weather.
Mark
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Post by ozark on Oct 3, 2010 20:44:41 GMT -5
What we call pen oaks or Chinquipen oaks produce acorns which are small compared to whiteoaks or red oaks. We also have post oaks that deer love. Black oaks don't seem to attract deer. Sawtooth oak are good but so brittle that any amount of ice will strip them. They keep the leaves on until new leaves appear in the spring. The native wild persommons we have here drop only a few fruit along during the fall. The trees are usually loaded with fruit after the frost caused the leaves to drop. The fruit is sweet after being frozen. Some use them like bananas to make persommon bread. Anyone heard of paw paws? Nothing will eat them that I know of except humans. Arkansa Bananas. lol
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Post by rossman40 on Oct 3, 2010 21:34:52 GMT -5
They hold a paw paw festival down around Athens, OH every year. They make breads, jams/jellies and even soda pop from paw paws. The few wild trees I've seen here in Ohio do not produce a lot of fruit. I've never seen a deer eat one. Down in Florida a friend of the families has a few trees close and the local bears make their appearance to munch a few, other then that racoons and possums will munch them.
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