Dang Vermin! Stole all the plums! Grrr....

[DarkBlack]

Raccoons also love stealing peaches.
I get a lot of porcupine problems with my trees too. Telltale sign with both on dwarf, and semi - dwarf trees is broken branches.
When you see chewed edges, it’s a porky.

 

[JasperFrank]

We have an apple tree that produces pretty good every year. Last month the wife and I were counting what we might get this year. There were immature apples all the way up into the upper branches. Cool, its a bumper crop.
Was doing my annual soap spray yesterday, and everything is gone aside from the very bottom branches. There were no apples on the ground. Very weird!

 

[ponytug]

These squirrel control traps work really well for me;

WCS™ Tube Trap - Rust Resistant

WCS™ Tube Trap - Rust Resistant from Wildlife Control Supplies

www.wildlifecontrolsupplies.com

The traps are very durable, and the squirrels can't seem to resist running through them. I put them on the ground or on a horizontal branch.

All the best,

Peter

 

[1 Old Man]

Raccoons also love stealing peaches.
...... and semi - dwarf trees is broken branches.

This year we got 3 nice tasty peaches. Came out the next day and a few peach pits on the ground, the
main trunk (young tree) had been snapped, and not a single peach to be found anywhere. Coons are
like pigs...they tear up almost everything. Coons will kill your chickens, tear shingles off your roof, destroy a deer feeder, destroy bird feeders etc etc etc

 

[Ricn]

bears try and get our plums every year along with some apples and blueberries.

 

[Jstpssng]

This year we got 3 nice tasty peaches. Came out the next day and a few peach pits on the ground, the
main trunk (young tree) had been snapped, and not a single peach to be found anywhere. Coons are
like pigs...they tear up almost everything. Coons will kill your chickens, tear shingles off your roof, destroy a deer feeder, destroy bird feeders etc etc etc

So will a bear.

 

[MAX-24-Dean]

Had the same problem here with the 'coons and plums. I bought a 3' section of cheap single wall stove pipe to place around the trunk, zip tied it on and saved the fruit.

Now, last week I'm mowing grass and notice a coyote under my pear trees. Minutes later the coyote is jumping several feet in the air to the lower branches grabbing the pears off. Only a rifle can fix that.

Yep! Trapping is no longer allowed in Wasington State without a license to trap, so the law abiding citizens are now using the shoot them method instead of trap and relocate.

 

[CalG]

This year we got 3 nice tasty peaches. Came out the next day and a few peach pits on the ground, the
main trunk (young tree) had been snapped, and not a single peach to be found anywhere. Coons are
like pigs...they tear up almost everything. Coons will kill your chickens, tear shingles off your roof, destroy a deer feeder, destroy bird feeders etc etc etc

We got 140 pounds of peaches off the early tree (Reliance)
Might get 80# off the later tree, If the bears don't get them first. ;-)

 

[CalG]

Yep! Trapping is no longer allowed in Wasington State without a license to trap, so the law abiding citizens are now using the shoot them method instead of trap and relocate.

In Vermont, you can not "relocate" any wild animal onto property that is NOT YOURS.

Pushing a problem onto someone else is not OK!

 

[Jstpssng]

In Vermont, you can not "relocate" any wild animal onto property that is NOT YOURS.

Pushing a problem onto someone else is not OK!

I wish it was that way here. About every 3 years I have to kill a woodchuck. Given the infrequency I've always suspected that somebody drops them off. Then there's the rat which showed up... you don't have just one rat yet once the chickens took care of him I haven't had another problem.