"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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"Frank Logullo" wrote in message
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some species are like salad to them ...last season I was watching from
this puter desk at 4 in afternoon on a sunny day watching two full size
deer munching my tulips down to the ground ...mid summer they were
eating sunflower plants that were four feet high ..they love to dig
thru snow to munch on neighbors myrtle, but only eat the leaves and the
plants come back in full. Iris only when fresh sprouts are 5 inches
high. They wont touch daffodils

depending on how harsh the winter ..they will eat rhodadendron ..flower
buds and leaves

netting is a pain to put up and take down/store

my solution ...single strand of electric fence wire wrapped around 24
inch fiberglass tent pole section ( spool of surplus fine guage bare
wire... rewind around coffee can for reuse) ...I move it from
decorative foundation plants in winter to veg garden in summer

Would also be my response. In worst part of winter they will eat
anything.
Deer never starve without a full stomach - full of vegetation that
supplies
little nutrients to them.



In the wilderness, far from people, what's their version of a half gallon
of
ice cream? Berries?

Deer love acorns. Also, place I used to hunt had wild old apple tree in
woods before corn field. Deer would stop at this tree before going after the
corn. I fight with the local deer over my chestnuts. One afternoon I had
to chase them away 4 times even to the point of throwing a rock at them.
Deer are browsers and the whole world is a buffet line to them
Frank