If you don’t want to drop off your tree at a collection point or at the recycling center: here is an original alternative to say the least. From January 2 to February 2, the Thot Park offers to collect old trees. They will be given to eat deer, fallow deer and aurochs of the park.
It was the site director, Jeremy Eyraud, who had the idea of implementing this new formula this year. “Above all, it’s recycling trees instead of throwing them away, it allows us to have a complementary food source to give them, and it’s a very simple gesture, it’s to put down the tree, and recover it, there is nothing complicated “, he says.
Dietary supplement
While the keepers had no doubts that the deer and fallow deer would feed on the firs without any problem, for the aurochs, it was rather a surprise. “It’s true that we are more at the base of a farm animal, than we imagine in the meadow, so it was really a gluttony test. The bark is what they like the most, some will eat the thorns and others nothing at all. Everyone makes their own plate “, smiles Magalie Dupont, careful.
A dedicated space will therefore be installed in front of the park entrance, in the parking lot. All you have to do is put your tree there, the animals will take care of the rest. Be careful though, the trees must be natural, without products on it such as snow bomb, which can be toxic to animals. If the tree has only been decorated with balls or garlands, that’s fine!