The chestnut trees in this years sheep winter paddock were recently defoliated by the sheep. They have successfully regrown leaves and are looking healthy. Who knows maybe the stress will end up making them more robust in the end. There was so much rain after the sheep ate the leaves I felt confident these trees would have no problem recovering.
The wild seedling american chestnut continues to grow. I will jump for joy if it makes it through to next spring. Such a lucky find.
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quotingSheep ate my chestnut trees
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Even though the young chestnut trees have cages protecting them, I have still been excluding them from the sheep when grazing this paddock just to be safe.
We recently used the sheep to over graze the paddock these trees are planted in but I failed to exclude the sheep this time. They ended up completely defoliating the trees.
Thankfully, there has been plenty of rain since the sheep munched on the chestnuts and they are starting to grow new leaves. I think they will be just fine but nearly a mistake which would have destroyed years of work.
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