Haunted By A Deer

There is a deer ravaging my sweet potato crop deep in our garden not far from wild bushes and a nearby sites. The animal has made it a nightmare nor me to farm some other crops in the past and I have reason to believe its not alone. I have tried erecting noisy vibrating string around the property since I consider fencing tedious with the possibility of other more cost effective alternatives. Anyone who can proffer their solution which worked?

 

Arrow threw the heart hide the evidence beside a helping of sweet potatoes and corn bread

 

Big bad dogs!
If you let them spend time down there where the deer enter and leave the scent alone may keep them at bay!
or it they are well enough trained to not chase them for hours through the bush you can loose them just after dark!
A few close calls with savage dogs should get them to move somewhere else!
or just shoot them!
If someone objects just tell them that the venison on the table is just a form of crop harvesting with the deer as the middleman between crop and table!

 

Kill garden pests and eat them. They are on your land. Deer are tall rats that taste good. And kangaroo can be eaten too.

 

There are several ways to solve this problem.
I think that most legit way is to kill it

 

When I was a kid we had this problem with a 25 acre pea patch. The deer would just come in and eat all the peas. Fencing, unless you want to go over 5 feet high is useless they jump right over anything less. We tried noise makers in the form of carbide cannons. After about a week they got used to them and ignored them. In the end we killed about 25 of them by putting a stand in the middle of the field and shooting them at night. The survivors moved on. We did this legally and most of the meat went to an orphanage.

 

They are doing better at managing the deer populations here than they used to. Back then it was bucks only so the does were left to breed. This is fine until there are so many deer that they over graze the forest and have to move into urban and farming areas to find food. If you want to control the populations you have to harvest the does. Now it is a much more ballance harvest and other then in a couple of forested subdivisions and the state park their numbers are much better. The state park even allows hunting there for a couple of weeks if the numbers get too high. One of the big subdivisions allows bow hunting on the golf course until 8 am to thin the herds.

 

You can try the pee method. just pee all around what ever you want the deer not to touch .
Bill

 

http://www.deer-departed.com/deer-repellent-recipes.html

These are homemade deer repellents. The pee method does work in some areas but it would take a lot of it to protect a garden. I used to do it to channel deer towards my deer stand by peeing on the other game trails. It seemed to be more effective on the does than the bucks though. I have also read that deer don't like peppermint.

 

One old method is to hang up old stockings stuffed with human hair, another is to pee around your boundaries or set up high deer fencing around your plot at great financial cost.....none of these really work as far as I can tell. When deer are determined to get in nothing will stop them. If deer are destroying food crops and you have tried non lethal methods and they've failed then it's time to cull the deer. Even if they're out of season you can still apply for a permit if there are special/extenuating circumstances....

 

If you can’t kill them do a bit of research on some plants that will deter them. I can’t think of the name of the plant my old neighbor used to plant around her garden but the deer would walk across her property and bypass her garden.

 

I know a guy that ambushed the deer that were eating his wifes flowers with a paintball gun. If scared the heck out of them and according to him and his son it was so funny and fun that they don't care if it is a permanent fix. His wife on the other hand is ready to put them in the freezer if they don't leave her flowers alone. MEAN lady with no sense of humor!!