Help!! Acorns!!

MauiRob

MauiRob

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I don't have time right now to go into this whole story and do it justice, but here's the short of it: inlaws have big oaks in yard, don't want to cut them down, dog eats acorns and gets sick, they need a way to get rid of the acorns.

Please advise if you have any ideas (they currently rake and bag and get about 30 giant sacks of nuts a season.) my mother in law is spending nearly 6 hours a day doing this---Yeah, I know she's slightly odd.

Thanks for any ideas. Don't be afraid to make fun--I sure as hell couldn't resist when they told me!;)
 
Wildlife food.

Contact local nature conservancy or wildlife shelter and offer the mast to them IF they collect it.

Get rid of the dog.


Merry Christmas.
 
That'll work as long as acorns are not readily available in your area. Anyonelse have acorns, or are your trees the only ones in 50 miles?


Where are the local animals who use acorns as a food source?

You could train dogs not to eat acorns. There are dog trainers for that kind of thing.
Buy a shock collar and zap them everytime they pick up an acorn.


munk
 
Isn't this something the dogs should be learning on their own? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

You'd think, huh? I mean, is the Dog species so dependent upon men they can no longer survive or handle the simplest of environmental decisions?



munk
 
I'd go out and buy 100 squirrels. Or, just go out and buy 10 squirrels. They'll be fun to watch roll around after eating several pounds of acorns several times a day for several weeks. They'll look like fuzzy bloated ticks with buck teeth and labored breathing. Plus the dogs can eat them it won't make them sick. Improbable?? Yes. Impractical? Very much so. Insane?? Well I have to draw the line somewhere, sir. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a bologna sandwich calling my name.
... shut up, shut up, shut up! I told you I'd be in there to eat you after I got done posting..Yes, I'm bringing the mustard! You ALWAYS do this. You know, I could have had olive loaf. Oh here we go! Bringing up the past! It was one time! One time! It was ham and I was hungry!

Jake
 
Steely_Gunz said:
I'd go out and buy 100 squirrels. Or, just go out and buy 10 squirrels. They'll be fun to watch roll around after eating several pounds of acorns several times a day for several weeks. They'll look like fuzzy bloated ticks with buck teeth and labored breathing. Plus the dogs can eat them it won't make them sick. Improbable?? Yes. Impractical? Very much so. Insane?? Well I have to draw the line somewhere, sir. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a bologna sandwich calling my name.
... shut up, shut up, shut up! I told you I'd be in there to eat you after I got done posting..Yes, I'm bringing the mustard! You ALWAYS do this. You know, I could have had olive loaf. Oh here we go! Bringing up the past! It was one time! One time! It was ham and I was hungry!

Jake
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I'm so very afraid right now. The squirrel idea was the first thing of which I thought....
 
Your inlaws could make flour outta them. Helluva process though and much more work than just raking them up but at least they wouldn't go hungry when the SHTF.;)
 
LMAO! I knew this would be a great thread:D

Yeah, the damn dog is missing a vital gene if you ask me. I will tell them the wildlife sanctuary idea. I like the rent a squirrel idea too:D

Jake? Are you ok? Just making sure that sandwich didn't get the best of you and tell you that it would feel better if you cut yourself in half first before you cut it;) :p :D

[I had a vision of a giant lint brush.../QUOTE] Ok, this is the first post that scared me a bit

Munk, I think your dog training idea really makes sense. I like the shock collar idea, but then again I always say that:D
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Jake?

You promised to always take your meds before posting. Just because it is the Christmas season, that doesn't mean you can skip dosage. Your friend really IS having Christmas with you even if you don't talk to him so much when you are on meds. He's just quiet in his little house, listening to the records you bought him. Yes, that's right, the small ones.




You guys, and Morgane and Gin, be gentle with yourselves.

Have safe, warm, and satisfying holidays.
 
My goats love White Oak acorns.

Normally goats don't eat things directly off the ground, kind of an evolutionary thing to prevent worms, but they will white oak acorns. Red and Chestnut oak they wait till they sprout and then eat them.

One spring years ago I couldn't figure out what they were doing. They were digging something up, and then crunching something up. Then I realize they were digging up sprouting acorns.

They say acorns are toxic to cattle, I guess some might be mildly toxic to goats, but the key for the goats is as long as you feed them plenty of hay and grain, they will never eat enough acorns to get sick. Maybe try something like that with the dog.
 
munk said:
Isn't this something the dogs should be learning on their own? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

You'd think, huh? I mean, is the Dog species so dependent upon men they can no longer survive or handle the simplest of environmental decisions?



munk
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In nature, the dog would die and its (stupid) genes would not be part of the pool. (That would work for people too.)

(Oaks have acorns in waves so some years they outnumber the ability of the critters to eat them all. Otherwise, there would never be new trees -- the demand would match the supply. Around here, this year was a tip-o-the-wave year -- acorns all over the ground. Last year when I needed to collect some for a wilderness survival course, they were very hard to find.)
 
Oaks have acorns in waves so some years they outnumber the ability of the critters to eat them all. Otherwise, there would never be new trees -- the demand would match the supply>>>>>>>>>>>> Thomas Linton

You think this? All the other nut bearing trees on earth don't have this problem? You ever look for spent 45 casings right at your feet and be unable to find them all? I have. Not all the acorns, or any other nut, are found and devoured in such a way as to make new tree growth impossible.

Besides, everyone knows the reason Oaks do this is to drive the dominant species on earth insane.



munk
 
Oh man, Yvsa beat me to it. Roast them and eat them. Make flour out of them. I've never heard of a dog eating an acorn before. I second the squirrel idea, just be able to deal with them with the acorns are gone and they are looking at you for more food. of course, you could be fattening them up....
 
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