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Discussion on Black walnut next door
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New Member:
ctucker
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Posted on Sunday, Apr 1, 2007 - 12:44 pm:
hi--this is a great website-my first posting. My neighbors have a black oak and branches hang over the fence. My horse doesn't have access to the tree but I have noticed walnuts lying around.I just moved in last July and brought my horse home in Feb. I understand shavings and sawdust are the biggest threat..so should this tree get cut down (neighbors offered!) spreading sawdust everywhere, or leave it or what? I am an anxious horse mom as this is my first time having her at home! thanks, cindy
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scooter
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Posted on Sunday, Apr 1, 2007 - 12:58 pm:
Hi Cindy, being the worry wart I am, I think I would put up a temporary hot wire fence around where the walnuts fall, and a small perimeter of the tree so the horse can't get real close to it.
I do that in the fall when my horses start eating the leaves & pods from a neighboring tree....the wind blows them in.
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kthorse
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Posted on Sunday, Apr 1, 2007 - 2:43 pm:
I know your fear. At my barn the is a black walnut in the paddock. Its been there forever with out problems. They even put hay bales under it. I am so scared I wish they would cut it down. They arnt worried about it as they have never had a problem. I worry though.
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Member:
erika
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Posted on Sunday, Apr 1, 2007 - 3:09 pm:
The tree lines of my pastures are all black walnut and locust. I have never had a problem in twenty years, but I think if your paddock is small and the horse gets bored there may be some danger of eating some of the leaves or wood.
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DrO
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Posted on Monday, Apr 2, 2007 - 7:30 am:
As the above indicates Cindy the risk of disease from such exposure is low, perhaps very low, but not zero.
DrO
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New Member:
ctucker
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Posted on Monday, Apr 2, 2007 - 4:03 pm:
thank you so much to everyone!!!I had no idea I'd get such great feedback so quickly! Guess what, my neighbors cut it down yesterday..I was so surprised. There is a huge cypress with 2 trunks looming over our houses and I think they would like me to take that down, which I plan to..the third trunk fell across my yard in a storm. thanks again to everyone! cindy
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trouble
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Posted on Monday, Apr 2, 2007 - 5:17 pm:
Cindy,
I, too, had the black walnut dilema (it is a thread somewhere here!). I had to cut one down several years ago because branches were falling on my barn roof. I cleaned up the area as best as I could, but was very nervous because said tree was near the stall entrances. I also have several in my pasture that occasionally DrOp branches that have to be cut up. I did stress alot over this, but have never had any problems in the past 7 years that I have dealt with this. Fortunately, the areas with the black walnut trees are not the horses favorite spots to graze.
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karent
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Posted on Tuesday, Apr 3, 2007 - 12:26 pm:
I also had this same dilema. We had a huge black walnut tree behind our barn (when I lived in CA). I was very nervous, even though many horses had lived at that house for many years, with no problems whatsoever.
I finally talked my husband into chopping it down, It took a load off my mind even if it wasn't really necessary.
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dsibley
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Posted on Sunday, Sep 12, 2010 - 12:17 am:
We are putting in a new pasture (YAY!!) but one side of it parallels a tree line. There is a 30-foot tall black walnut in the tree line. We have a 'buffer' of about ten or twelve feet between the fence and the trees. Do you think the walnut has to be removed? I walked the area, and do not see any nuts on the ground, but the squirrels might have taken care of that.
Thanks!
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vickiann
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Posted on Sunday, Sep 12, 2010 - 1:57 pm:
What does the buffer consist of? Is there other tall vegetation in between to buffer your pasture from falling leaves or branches?
Here is an article about the toxicity:
https://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/1000/1148.html
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Member:
canter
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Posted on Monday, Sep 13, 2010 - 7:04 am:
Dielitz, have you considered heavy winds and the direction in which they blow in relationship to the tree and your new pasture? I'm not sure 10-12 feet of buffer is enough if you get winds blowing in the wrong direction. Vicki's link above indicates that the toxins do occur in the leaves, but it is unclear how much a horse would have to eat to be affected.
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dsibley
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Posted on Monday, Sep 13, 2010 - 7:50 am:
We have mowed paths around all our pastures...this one is probably twelve feet wide, maybe a little more. Just grass, no other vegetation.
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