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Boar attack!
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Posted by fionalasmolinas UK-Malaga! (My Page) on Wed, Apr 19, 06 at 6:53
| Has anyone any idea how to thwart boars intent on uprooting newly planted trees? An orange tree was the victim last week.... thankfully I'd not got around to the others due to go in (and old olive trees who survived the onslaught have also been under attack). I guess barbed wire/stout metal stakes may do the trick, but maybe there's a time-honoured solution somewhere out there? |
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RE: Boar attack!
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| Are you sure it's Boar ....you lucky man ........I'm in Alhaurin-de-la-torre.....the other side of Malaga and would be greatfull of a siting near Malaga of a wild boar ...any garden probs you may have ,i may be able to help with experience of 4 years or so !! |
RE: Boar attack!
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Further to TwoYorkie's posting, I've not seen the boar but know they are about from a (Spanish) neighbour. anyway the evidence - deep scuffling/diggings at the base of olive trees plus the uprooted young orange tree (complete with stones I'd put round the base to retain water on the downhill side of the planting) is identical to the way pigs uproot things with their snouts...I've kept pigs so know the look of this well!
I agree it's nice to know they're around (interestingly our UK base is in the Forest of Dean where we also see wild boar - and I mean SEE - I've watched a herd of 30-odd in action.....) but it's a dilemma how to keep young trees in the ground. |
boar? the evidence.....
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Further to TwoYorkie's posting, I've not seen the boar but know they are about from a (Spanish) neighbour. anyway the evidence - deep scuffling/diggings at the base of olive trees plus the uprooted young orange tree (complete with stones I'd put round the base to retain water on the downhill side of the planting) is identical to the way pigs uproot things with their snouts...I've kept pigs so know the look of this well!
I agree it's nice to know they're around (interestingly our UK base is in the Forest of Dean where we also see wild boar - and I mean SEE - I've watched a herd of 30-odd in action.....) but it's a dilemma how to keep young trees in the ground. |
RE: Boar attack!
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WOW!!!! Some other poor sould with the problem!! We're in The Alpuharras near Granada and have had wild boar problems for ages now! The little tinkers mess up all the irrigation channels and after an attack we would have to move earth back to where it was before!! Pain in the Ass! We seem to have cracked it now. Pigs can't jump so we drilled holes in steel rods and put three rows of 3mm wire throught the holes 10cm's apart and with tensioners pulled taught. No all was quiet in the wild boar dept for a while but they are clever and persistant! They somehow managed to get under so we added chicken wire. Not had a problem for a while! They also don't like the smell of humans so scatter lots of hair from the hairdresses around, also string up smelly tshirts! no shortage of these cos fence building is hard work!!!
Hope this helps! And I really sympathise! All the best |
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