down to the local zoo for some lion dung, most will give you it for free, also cayenne pepper i managed to keep deer and rabbits away from uncaged plants for 3 weeks with these, but a fence is the main thing i reckon, then your not giving the deer the option to get near your plants.
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SeaMaiden
Well I think it's time to rename them--GOATS.
I've been hit by deer for the first time this year. Got some neat heirloom squashes going, noticed last week that the flowers are being neatly bitten off. Said to my husband, "Husband, I think the deer are eating my squash blossoms, so I'll need to fence them."
The VERY NEXT MORNING I discovered that the ONE squash they'd allowed to live was half-eaten.
Next day, they hit one of my lettuce planters that's awfully close to the house. Fortunately, they left the roots intact, so I should get another crop from that planter. Unfortunately, I kept all the varieties and species separated.
Sometimes, when it comes to hungry, thirsty deer, not even a dog is enough. Now I know.
Btw, if pee or human hair really worked then they'd never come onto our property. I pee all over the place, and shed, too.
This is a really good idea, and it's what I do when I plant out my corn beds to keep the cats from shitting in them. I really, truly hate it when the cats come and shit in my seed beds. But maybe not as much as when the deer consume my lovely squashes.
I have a friend out Mendocino way who's had problems like that for decades. I am so glad I haven't experienced it! He also has to be careful for stuff like mice or even yellow jackets girdling the plants to get at the moisture. Almost nothing sadder than seeing a 12' diameter girl just drop dead because she's been girdled.
x gojillion.
We've got a local herd that's basically been pushed into a residential zone due to massive construction destroying their habitat. Loss of habitat + drought = some pretty desperate critters.
Not that I can blame them though...
When it gets to crunch time due to drought or competition, deer will do pretty much anything for food, including blowing off any type of repellant. The only thing you can do to protect your crops is to put up a physical barrier, and if the conditions are bad enough, they will try to defeat that too.
Go for fencing, and make it strong, because they WILL try to defeat it to get to your girls.
Best to you.
ha ha, lol! Youre right Sm.
A funny story: A bud of mine bought one of these motion detected electronic animal repellants that has a little solar panel and puts off a high frequency pitch that people cant hear but animals can hear.. After twistin up a big one , us 2 scientist decided to go out to the local game farm and test the device. There in the pen were 4 or 5 half tame, deer eating corn from several children when my bud hit the test button.
The deer jumped like scalded cats and bounced around the pen like "what the fuck?!!" It scared the little kids and everybody was looking at us. Another life experience i guess.
The device worked for a bit, but deer arent as dumb as a goat and it wasnt long until they seemed to know it wasnt dangerous.
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Oh heck yeah deer will lift fencing, I've had them do it to some of my fences and several occasions. There have even been a few times they beat down a section of wire until they could jump over the fence to get at my irrigation pond. You need a tight, well built fence at least 6' tall to keep determined deer out. That plastic 'deer fencing' stuff is a joke, they can rip it right down.
deer can jump 4 foot sraight up from any where! we had a pet deer for a year and half, way out in country,long story. but we raised it from fawn, it could get out of chicken yard with 4 foot fence. only 8 ' wide, it did not needed to get runing start. it never did, it would stand next to it and just spring - right over it. i have seen chiken wire fences around plants that they stomped to get to baby plants. DO NOT KILL DEER NEAR PATCH OR IN PATCH! they could care less that thier friend, mom. dad or what ever is laying there dead! i did once, and had to cover with lime and plastic bags and dirt. fences layed down work. i have a pic above, but in woods. i will take pic of fence in weeds, but they are hard to see.it's very to hard stop a hungry deer, but can be done! i know more ways but have to pm you, and i don't have enough posts yet. later anchient
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Early on this year I caught a small group of black-tailed deer in one of my fenced gardens. 6' tall fencing all the way around, but on a slope, depending on the direction that jump could be 4' or 8'. As soon as I saw them happily grazing in the area I began clapping and yelling. One deer cleared the fence, at 7' from the ground, easily. The other one got caught in the fence and it pretty much sling-shot her backwards. That allowed her to get herself going and UP she sailed, right over it.
I think a deer would scoff at a 4' tall fence.
I may have to go with electricity. Or a pet puma.
I think a deer would scoff at a 4' tall fence.
I may have to go with electricity. Or a pet puma.
here are some new pics of fence layed down, not too hard to see. some you just can't see,to many weeds or i just suck with camera so did not post. but you get the idea. also my dog "Hook" and my net job with big plant in background. later anchient ps. yes i know my dog Hook is good looking!
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Do you know what a 400lb hog can do to a fence? If he's not too mean and stupid which is totally against their nature, he'll just take 5 minutes and root under it. If he's meaner than fuck, angry snot and slober dripping boar thats stays pissed 24hrs a day, he'll hit it tare it to shreds, tare the patch to shreds and wait for you to come back so he can ream your ass too!
Dont put the fence around the weed, put it around you. A grower is far better off leaving them alone and not constructing devices aimed at pissing them off.
Dont put the fence around the weed, put it around you. A grower is far better off leaving them alone and not constructing devices aimed at pissing them off.
Dead animals. Rotting flesh will keep the deer away. Herbivores avoid rotting flesh. Clean some fish and toss the remains around the woods. Or trap and skin some racoons,weasels, rabbits etc you get the idea.
fences to keep deer out have to be angled outward. Deer jump up and over if the fence is angled they wont jump it.
