Protective fencing around young trees

[Dirtslinger]

Have you found anything that works well? I have a few fruit/shade trees within the pasture, for the most part the leaves are above the dexters reach, but the young bark sure isn't.
I'm thinking about 3 posts around the tree- then chicken wire around that?
Or just chicken wire alone- though rubbing could be trouble?

Thanks for your ideas!

[topside1]

I've used chicken wire on my cedar trees and so far so good.

[mary,tx]

One year I planted a pecan tree out front and thought that if I put four t-posts around it, and strung some wire to make it look hot-wired, that'd keep the cattle out. I'm just mentioning it to let you know that does not work. If I did it again, I'd put up field fencing. I doubt that chicken wire would have kept this particular heifer out. But maybe a different animal...
mary

[topside1]

My Cedar trees are wrapped two times around with chicken wire from ground level to roughly 8 feet high...Goats and cattle have moved on ever since...TJ

[Dirtslinger]

Thanks!!

[Wags]

If the tree is large enough you can wrap the trunk with chicken wire, other wise a circle of field fence held with 3-4 t-posts.

I love the way my Dexter's pruned the fir trees in their corral. It is so even looking that people that see it are always asking how we got the bottoms of all those trees trimmed so level.