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Deer question
Lots of deer in the neighborhood. In your experience, if you plant deer
resistant plants along with plants deer like, are they smart enough to find the ones they like amongst the ones they don't ? This might be a silly question, to some, but I really don't know the answer. Thank you. |
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"Jack" wrote in message news:Ktzfe.5485$EC6.440@trndny06... Lots of deer in the neighborhood. In your experience, if you plant deer resistant plants along with plants deer like, are they smart enough to find the ones they like amongst the ones they don't ? This might be a silly question, to some, but I really don't know the answer. Thank you. Based on my experience so far, they observe us from a distance during the day, make note of which plants we seem to love the most, and then target those plants and night. Pass the ammo. |
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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 Stew Corman from sunny Endicott |
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wrote in message oups.com... 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. |
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wrote in message oups.com... 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 Stew Corman from sunny Endicott How high do you place your wire for deer? I'm headed to a farm supply store this week, and without advice, I'll probably do my usual overkill. In this case, that would mean wire every 12" beginning at ground level, up to about 10 feet, and a separate set of supports for razor wire and grenades. But I suspect I don't need to get quite that involved. |
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"Frank Logullo" wrote in message ... wrote in message oups.com... 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? |
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I have had good results with a product call "liquid fence"
give it a try "Doug Kanter" wrote in message ... wrote in message oups.com... 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 Stew Corman from sunny Endicott How high do you place your wire for deer? I'm headed to a farm supply store this week, and without advice, I'll probably do my usual overkill. In this case, that would mean wire every 12" beginning at ground level, up to about 10 feet, and a separate set of supports for razor wire and grenades. But I suspect I don't need to get quite that involved. |
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"Doug Kanter" wrote in message ... "Frank Logullo" wrote in message ... wrote in message oups.com... 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 |
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"How high do you place your wire for deer? "
around the front yard for decoratives ie tulips and myrtle, a single strand about 20 inches high was sufficient. For taller shrubs and rhodadendrun a second strand at 3 feet did the job, but was placed two feet in front of shrubs so they couldn't eat over it. neighbor has fancy daylily beds 40 feet across ...that single 3 foot strand keeps them out note: they don't jump over a live wire ..they munch on grass nearby and meander towards the good stuff ...either their ears or wet nose tounch the fence and they bolts backwards 10+ feet ...something to watch grin if you try to keep rabbits out with a low wire ie 6 inches ...you better mulch down that area so weeds don't short it out I leave mine on 24/7 at garden unless I am there and then I turn it off BTW ..I am NOT talking about running barbwire type weight heavy wire ....I got a 1000ft spool of cheap surplus galvanized steel fine guage wire that is strong enough so you can't just break it in your hands ....easy to handle and wind up ..if you are buying from farm supply, get the lightest and cheapest they sell. Stew Corman from sunny Endicott |
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wrote in message oups.com... You guys need a bigger freezer. I know what you mean. I'd be perfectly happy with camping in the yard and waiting for them with a shotgun, but unfortunately, I have neighbors who like to complain about the littlest things. |
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"Doug Kanter" wrote:
I know what you mean. I'd be perfectly happy with camping in the yard and waiting for them with a shotgun, but unfortunately, I have neighbors who like to complain about the littlest things. Here in Pennsylvania, the game local game warden actually recommends that people in urban areas get their neighbors to get a licensed hunter to get permission to reduce a nuisance herd. The game commission authorizes the hunter to do this. The hunter gets signed waivers from the home owners waiving the restriction on hunting near homes. Then the licensed hunter gets on a roof of a home and shoots them with a bow and arrow or cross bow. Since he is shooting down toward the ground, even if he misses, there is no risk as long as pets and children are kept in. Usually this is done at night, so the children are in bed asleep. In some areas it can be done during the day; the deer are that bold. The risk of lyme disease is much worse than the risk of having a archer-sniper reducing the herd. That is the only control the game commissioner says works here other than 7' high fences. He says that he has seen them eventually figure out every other type of control. -- Pardon my spam deterrent; send email to Cheers, Steve Henning in Reading, PA USA http://home.earthlink.net/~rhodyman |
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"Stephen Henning" wrote in message news "Doug Kanter" wrote: I know what you mean. I'd be perfectly happy with camping in the yard and waiting for them with a shotgun, but unfortunately, I have neighbors who like to complain about the littlest things. Here in Pennsylvania, the game local game warden actually recommends that people in urban areas get their neighbors to get a licensed hunter to get permission to reduce a nuisance herd. The game commission authorizes the hunter to do this. The hunter gets signed waivers from the home owners waiving the restriction on hunting near homes. Then the licensed hunter gets on a roof of a home and shoots them with a bow and arrow or cross bow. Since he is shooting down toward the ground, even if he misses, there is no risk as long as pets and children are kept in. Usually this is done at night, so the children are in bed asleep. In some areas it can be done during the day; the deer are that bold. The risk of lyme disease is much worse than the risk of having a archer-sniper reducing the herd. That is the only control the game commissioner says works here other than 7' high fences. He says that he has seen them eventually figure out every other type of control. I have a neighbor who bow hunts, and practices by hitting bottle caps from about 75', successfully, I might add. Maybe he's interested.... My town brings in hunters for herd control, but only in a large park area about 5 miles away. Not enough, though. |
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