enigma wrote:
keep deer from nibbling on tree bark/branches?
we've done logging in the llamas winter pasture & removed all
the pine.
we had a good bit of the branches left for the llamas & goats
to browse, but, of course, they've suddenly discovered there
are sugar maples in the pasture (which they never bothered in
the 5 years i've winter pastured them there). i seem to recall
something that tastes nasty that could be sprayed or painted
on the trees. am i imagining things or is there such a thing?
i can put mesh fencing around the trunks, but that won't keep
them from eating the branches. i can't move them to the other
pastures until the ground thaws enough to refence.
any ideas?
lee

Small trees, you have to surround with fence or netting. Deer can only
browse up to about 6 feet but bucks can bring down trees several inches
in diameter rubbing their antlers. Local park in reforesting a field
wrapped new trees with wound plastic and guyed them, maybe losing 10 to
20 percent to buck rubs.