I don’t know about the (whole) tree, but it does seem the apples that are in-cider must have fermented.
It appears that she is "picky’ – she left a lot of apples on the tree – maybe she likes the older riper ones – the ones that have aged to just the right stage.
When my old mull berry tree drops its berries on the ground the sparrows fly down and start in eating the fermented ones and when they get their fill they start getting loopy and fly in weird and crazy ways because they are quite drunk from it.
At the ranch in Oregon where I kept my horse, there was an old apple orchard, and the owners had an old-fashioned hand-cranked cider press, so one day I tried my hand at pressing some cider. We mashed several bushels of apples, and made a few gallons of cider (delicious, by the way), but it was late by the time we finished, so I just bagged up the pressed mash in burlap bags and left them in the yard. When I returned a week later, I noticed the ranch’s free range (i.e. they had the entire 100 acres to freely range across, including the yard where I’d left the bags of mash) chickens were behaving strangely, staggering around and even falling over! Turns out, the mash had fermented, and the chickens had pecked holes in the burlap, eaten the mash, and gotten drunk! What a sight. The next time we made cider, we made sure to feed the mash to the horses instead of the chickens (well, we did give the chickens a few handfuls), and well BEFORE it fermented.
OK, from the look on the guy’s face on the left looking at the tree with the big hole I am thinking that is a male dinosaur and there is a hidden dirty joke here.
Leojim over 3 years ago
There’s been more than one fruit tree that has gotten a lot of animals drunk.
danketaz Premium Member over 3 years ago
Quick, start picking!
Doug K over 3 years ago
I think that’s a female dinosaur.
I don’t know about the (whole) tree, but it does seem the apples that are in-cider must have fermented.
It appears that she is "picky’ – she left a lot of apples on the tree – maybe she likes the older riper ones – the ones that have aged to just the right stage.
in-dubio-pro-rainbow over 3 years ago
Yeah! These prices at “Apple stores” can make you dizzy – or did I just “Think different”?
KA7DRE Premium Member over 3 years ago
When my old mull berry tree drops its berries on the ground the sparrows fly down and start in eating the fermented ones and when they get their fill they start getting loopy and fly in weird and crazy ways because they are quite drunk from it.
LeslieBark over 3 years ago
At the ranch in Oregon where I kept my horse, there was an old apple orchard, and the owners had an old-fashioned hand-cranked cider press, so one day I tried my hand at pressing some cider. We mashed several bushels of apples, and made a few gallons of cider (delicious, by the way), but it was late by the time we finished, so I just bagged up the pressed mash in burlap bags and left them in the yard. When I returned a week later, I noticed the ranch’s free range (i.e. they had the entire 100 acres to freely range across, including the yard where I’d left the bags of mash) chickens were behaving strangely, staggering around and even falling over! Turns out, the mash had fermented, and the chickens had pecked holes in the burlap, eaten the mash, and gotten drunk! What a sight. The next time we made cider, we made sure to feed the mash to the horses instead of the chickens (well, we did give the chickens a few handfuls), and well BEFORE it fermented.
Orcatime over 3 years ago
The Prehistoric prequel to The Birds.
jagedlo over 3 years ago
Time to make some hard apple cider, then?
pheets over 3 years ago
Drunken squirrels are pretty funny.
Zebrastripes over 3 years ago
Wait til he goes through the grape vines…
ChessPirate over 3 years ago
Tomorrow, that head is really gonna be saurus…
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Cerabooge over 3 years ago
Have an apple, Jack.
snowedin, now known as Missy's mom over 3 years ago
The tree doesn’t ferment; the fruit does.
Plods with ...™ over 3 years ago
Many moons ago we loved watching the deer stagger away from my grampa’s crabapple tree
zeexenon over 3 years ago
Well then, it must have a yeast infection.
scpandich over 3 years ago
I seem to remember once reading that you shouldn’t feed apples to cows because they will actually ferment in the cow’s stomachs.
Nuke Road Warrior over 3 years ago
Must have been planted by Johnny Applejack.
JenSolo02 over 3 years ago
Wouldn’t the apples be on the ground for them to ferment?
GravyGraves1 over 3 years ago
Florida holly
felipenollaFFA over 3 years ago
Dino Capp heading for the canal….
David Henderson over 3 years ago
OK, from the look on the guy’s face on the left looking at the tree with the big hole I am thinking that is a male dinosaur and there is a hidden dirty joke here.