Acorns

[delliam]

Any bright ideas how to clear the acorns from our field, a real glut of them this year. I know pigs eat them but that is out of the question, tried hoover type garden vac but not strong enough, any suggestions please.

 

[Clippy]

We put electric fencing around then just rake them into piles and spade into a barrow

 

[Supertrooper]

Electric fence the tree off and then collect them using a rake. That's what we do xx

 

[Piccy]

I used a scoop and broom the type of broom that looks like would belong to a witch only way I can describe it, have fenced them off and sweep up as many as I can each day.

 

[Fairytale]

Same here really; electric fence and rake them up

 

[loulabelle]

We have just had to move all our horses to our other field due to the mass of acorns fallen recently and 2 of ours deciding they rather like the taste of them plan to fence off all 5 trees this weekend and to use spade broom and wheelbarrow

This is our first year in a field with oak trees in the hedgerow....for those that its a seasonal problem for how long do you keep them fenced of usually...obviously until they stop falling but when does this usually happen?

We're having to pretty much half our field to fence them off, was luck we still had the other field but had planned to rest it so that we had grazing to move to if/when it snows

 

[millreef]

You could wait for them to grow into mighty oaks, then fell them and use the wood to make fences to place around the offending tree

 

[delliam]

Does anyone have a terra vac to hire in the north west? too many to sweep up and clear whole 6 acres is surrounded by oak trees, this year is particularly bad, hardly any last year and my horses seem to be addicted to them.....whats happened to the squirrels when you want them?

 

[Bangagin]

The squirrels and crows are eating some of ours, but there are loads of acorns on the trees still and also on the ground so we need to do something. We've currently fenced those areas off, and I had seen a 2 stroke petrol engine garden vacuum/blower which I had planned to hire once all the acorns have dropped - but just seen on here that a garden vac isn't man enough to pick them up, so may have to resort to raking.

 

[lucky7]

my cob has developed a real taste for them, she seeks them out and crunches them, been trying to rake them up but field has 10 oaks she ate them last year too, i was told they wernt that poisonous so long as they didnt gauge on them.
After reading this am moving her. Tomorrow.

 

[BonneMaman]

my cob has developed a real taste for them, she seeks them out and crunches them, been trying to rake them up but field has 10 oaks she ate them last year too, i was told they wernt that poisonous so long as they didnt gauge on them.
After reading this am moving her. Tomorrow.

Do not let your mare eat these! They are extremely poisonous and we had two horses die from acorn poisoning a few years back. Problem is, you cannot tell how many they have eaten!

 

[lucky7]

Am moving her tomorrow morning, will put her on another section away from the trees!!

 

[stencilface]

Mine gorged himself on them a few years ago - so much so that his poos were shiny brown full of acorn cases He'd broken through the fence the cheeky beggar

Thankfully due to some high winds not long ago, the half of the tree overhanging our field fell off so no more acorns dropping really. Although do you think clearing acorns would be a viable reason for me to get one of those cute mini piggies?

 

[lazybee]

I'm completely surrounded by oaks. It's impossible for me to stop them eating them. I spread fresh poo under the trees to put them off; I've also taped off about 300yrds. They still eat them though. They have plenty of grass too so with the balance in their diet they aren't forced to eat just acorns.