Re: trees and fun

[Teddy Lancaster <Teddy@runningbear.com>]

I have 100's pf trees and NOT A ONE has been chewed on.  I MUST be doing something
right!!!

Teddy


Wndrnkr@aol.com wrote:

> I'm not sure eating trees has as much to do with mineral or food imbalances as
> much as it does with boredom and the simple fact that the tree is there.
> Could it be a factor of ever-erupting teeth?  An attempt to file them down in
> the abscence of the silica that do that nicely in green pasture grasses?
> Perhaps a visit with an equine dentist would be of benefit.  Certainly
> protecting the tree is of paramount importance.  It doesn't take long for a
> horse to girdle the tree and kill it.  The tree's nourishment is in the cork,
> immediately under the bark, not in the center.  So avid chewers can make short
> work of something that may have taken centuries to grow.  How about other
> diversions--balls, cones, etc?