Keeping Deer out of my garden

ok ok I got it... You need to trap them. If there going to get in, make it where they cant get out just food for thought. DEER meat is awesome prepared right.
 
Beej said:
Could you elaborate on this? Tx.
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What I am saying is this: stretch inexpensive fencing wire over your garden fence to make a roof arrangement. I generally plant something nearby that they will browse on once they can't get to your garden. The herds that feed in suburban/semi-rural areas tend to have better survival rates and improved antler development.
 
hey beej, about the fence idea i posted up earlier...we had originally started out with some random netting the old man had laying around. until i walked out and found a biggin inside the garden one day...by the time i got back w/ dad and the bows he was gone, he had totally thrashed the netting, so we upgraded to chain link... if you are going to use netting buy some solid stuff, or make your own out of some military parachute cord (aka 550), stuff is strong...anyway like RKBA said this idea tends to keep the animal lovers and enviromentalist from knocking down your door, you might also think about buying a roll of some type of wire and just building your own cob web type roof with that wire.....HtH....

Maier

oh yea lately the deer pop has fallen, probably due to the expansion of detroit but also probably due to the verfied recent sitings of mountain lions we apprently (according to the DNR) dont have in the area, apparently they have reintroduced themselves and are coexisting with humans, i am patiently waitng for them to kill a human or attack a human so the DNR will hire me to hunt em...what fun in the mean time we have planty of deer and they are hungry...
 
Has anyone tried one of these motion activated sprinklers on Deer? I've heard of people around here having good luck, but I got mine for cats. The ducks like it but the cats don't. The ducks don't bother me since they are more tasty than cats.

http://www.sprinklerwarehouse.com/detail.aspx?ID=640
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Fergie said:
I knew you were a fag Lincoln...you dont even like pussy(s).
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Of course I like them, they taste great. I just don't like them crapping in my flower beds. :D

BTW, stop being naughty.
 
Do a search on tractorbynet.com in their rural living forum. Lots of info for deer control and gardens. Hair, urine, etc. sometimes works. Unless the fence is really tall it's not going to work. The consensus for a solution is really cheap. Buy some 20lb test mono fishing line and string a few strands of it between 2' and 4' off the ground. They can't see it and get spooked when they brush up against it and leave in a hurry :-)

It's probably a mineral thing and your place tastes sweeter than the neighbors.

- JP
 
JP_in_STL said:
Do a search on tractorbynet.com in their rural living forum. Lots of info for deer control and gardens. Hair, urine, etc. sometimes works. Unless the fence is really tall it's not going to work. The consensus for a solution is really cheap. Buy some 20lb test mono fishing line and string a few strands of it between 2' and 4' off the ground. They can't see it and get spooked when they brush up against it and leave in a hurry :-)

It's probably a mineral thing and your place tastes sweeter than the neighbors.

- JP
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Was talking to a couple of farmers last night, one recommended a mix of pumice (ground volcanic rock) soaked in a mild soap solution, then dried. When it´s dry you can spread it by hand, kind of like dust. Deer don´t like the crunch when they chew, the soap tastes bad.
Another repeated an old idea of mine :laugh3: back to me. He puts up a single strand of electric wire and ties pieces of reflective engineer tape on the wire (mostly for pigs) every couple of yards. They get stung a couple of times, then you can move the transformer to another section and they are shy of the reflective engineer tape on the dead wire. But pigs are a whole lot smarter than Deer.
I´ve run a whole bunch of electric fences around corn patches. No big deal really, a few maintenance free batteries and a battery charger. Change the batteries out a couple of times a week. The only hard part, is keeping the weeds off the wire, they drain the batteries pretty fast. I use plastic stakes, to string the wire (actually an impregnated and/or metal woven string). Electric horse fences are to strong (they will sure enough fire you up), but at many Farm sites, they have toned down fences.
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Displayitem.taf?itemnumber=47454
http://www.sureguard.com.au/index.shtml
 
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bjoehandley said:
Would an airsoft or paintball gun work, atleast with a paintball round you'd know if it was the same ones coming back or not.
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If you are really good with a paint ball gun, sniper variety, you can get paint balls loaded with pepper, the kind the police use. Hit a couple of the persistant ones in the snoot with a ball of that and it should prove interesting. They are expensive though, about $1.50 a ball.
The crossbow is still the best solution in an urban or semi-urban area, quiet, works well from a bedroom window and fills the freezer just so long as you like venison and don't mind cleaning and butchering. As far as I'm concerned if you can grow and harvest veggies on your property why not deer...
 
I remember tools made by Airrow that was a co2 powered arrow shooter (instead of the arrow being cast by a released string & nock, the nockless alum arrow tube engaged a discharge valve and went downrange. Accurate w/broadheads to 150 yds IIRC

Airrow also made CO2 hypo guns for vets and kidnappers, as well as rope & buoy launchers for at-sea or ice rescues.


http://www.swivelmachine.com/html/stealth.htm

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Engaging them via paintball is tantamount to cruelty to animals charges... If you are gonna get busted, it might as well involve (someone) eating the critters.

I still think you need to bait them to the neighbors yards...
 
Just a tip (the way I do it), is if it´s a Doe, shoot the yearling with her. Yearling is better meat and the Doe most times will take off and not come back for a good long time. She will have other offspring.
If it´s a Buck, decide wether it´s a cull or a keeper. I shoot the culls and drive off the good Bucks.
A cull, is a runt, bad antlers, an obvious deformaty or a two year old, still with his mother. Incest is what often causes culls.
Bucks are notional and fall is a bad time to interact. If anybody says anything about you driving or killing off the Deer, say they attacked. It happens a whole lot more, than anybody knows about, believe me. Game authorities know all about it, but rarley talk and most times won´t say a thing, about self defence. I had a statistic printout, on Deer attacks, but have missplaced it and haven´t been able to find it again, in the data base (?).
A Cross Bow with a bean bag arrow, is accurate out to 50-60 yards. It will sure enough get there attention.
Getting caught with a Cross Bow and a Deer, is a felony (no chit) around here.
I deal often, with game, people conflicts. I´m trying to trap a Fox now, that keeps trying to dig up the corpses in the cemetary. :phone: :wow: :puke:
 
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Just put up some of those nasty fat chick pics you love so much around your yard. They're scary enough to repel most wildlife.
Or better yet - find and post pictures of fat deer chicks around your yard.
 
Years ago when I had a garden in Connecticut, I found that it wasn't so much the actual height of the fence as the apparent height of the fence. I had a regular, stout fence of page wire about 4-5 feet high, which the deer would easily jump. So to the wooden fence posts, I nailed metal posts as extensions, and strung them with a few strands of barbed wire. I don't think the total was more than 7 feet or so. But the deer didn't see the barbed wire at night, and thought they were just jumping the page wire fence. They'd hit that barbed wire, and it would slingshot them back into the woods. I'd occasionally hear them crashing. They never figured it out.
 
FitchVA said:
might sound really wierd, but go to a local barber shop and get them to bag up all of their hair that they cut off. spread all of the hair around the perimiter of your garden.

it's an old-timers solution...kinda like wd-40 on bad knees. does it work? dunno. but it's worth a shot.
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works in our backyard...my dad also mixes in our dogs hair
 
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