Deer Protection

[moonie]

Last weekend, I hammered posts along my shrub beds and secured netting around the posts. I know the look wasn't going to win me the cover of "Better Homes & Gardens", but I figured it would deter the deer a bit.


Saturday night at 1am I pull into the driveway and there are 2 humungous (sic) deer standing INSIDE the netting, chewing away, looking like they were waiting for butler service!

Sunday, I bought burlap and wrapped my best arbor vitaes and rhododendrons with it. It ain't great, but I cant see stringing Irish Spring strips on the shrubs.


What's a shrubowner to do? Im an inquiring mind on this!

HELP!!!!

[MarleysGh0st]

What's a shrubowner to do? Im an inquiring mind on this!

Have you read Pea's "In the mean time" thread? She's heard "rumors" of what some shrubowners have done.

[peacock2121]

http://www.nottproducts.com/chewnot/FAQ.htm

This is what we use. There is a learning curve to be able to apply it correctly. It takes a back pack sprayer and time. If you can get the stuff, I do not think you should try it yourself. Find a landscaper or an aborist to do it for you.

It's not cheap - the materials alone aren't. Sting charges $45 an hour for application - the mixing and so on takes as long as the actual spraying. You really gotta want to keep the deer away to hire someone to do it.

He does tell some clients to use deer fencing or burlap.

[AnnieCamaro]

Have you considered giving a home to a big dog?

The greyhound rescue group in your area can help.

/:P\

[Bob Juch]

Have you considered giving a home to a big dog?

The greyhound rescue group in your area can help.

/:P\

Mountain lions are much more effective.

[PlacentiaSoccerMom]

I read somewhere that you can use animal urine from large animals like lions and tigers to humanely scare away deer.

I actually found a company online that sells the stuff:

http://www.predatorpee.com/

[moonie]

Wow.... predatorpee!


I'll have to make sure I dont mix this stuff while Im pouring the egg nog.

[PlacentiaSoccerMom]

Wouldn't you like to be the person who has to get the pee from the mountain lion?

Here, kitty, kitty...please pee in this cup.

[gsabc]

Wouldn't you like to be the person who has to get the pee from the mountain lion?

Here, kitty, kitty...please pee in this cup.

I had an organic chemistry professor who was an early researcher into pheromones. He told us of following foxes around in winter and collecting the yellow snow they left behind. What a job! "What's your area?" "I'm into fox piss."

"When you go where cold winds blow, don't you eat that yellow snow" - Frank Zappa

[mrkelley23]

Well, if you believe that Dennis Quaid movie, you can visit your local barber shop and ask for a day's worth of human hair. Then bury it shallowly around the perimeter.

I have no idea if this actually works. I just know what I see in the movies. Around here, if a big deer is giving me problems, I just call my b-i-l and tell him to bring whatever weapon the season allows.

Note to Saucy and others concerned about animal cruelty: in the Midwest/North Central states, it's almost becoming MORE inhumane NOT to hunt the deer. They don't have any more predators and their food supply is rapidly disappearing. They've had controlled hunts around here for the last several years, and the population keeps growing. If you don't thin the population, the whole population suffers.

And hunters around here, my b-i-l included, eat practically all the deer meat they can get off the carcass. Not because they have to, but because they like the meat.

[7yrscollegedownthedrain]

thot human hair was to deter moles...

[ne1410s]

I believe that, if you do get a deer permit, you should be able to shoot as many as you want. They are antlered rats, people!! I think the autobody shop lobby keeps the number of deer allowed per hunter low. Yeah, that's what it is...

[PlacentiaSoccerMom]

[a1mamacat]

Rec!!!