The wildlife (deer, wild pigs, coyotes, etc) seem really desperate for food this fall. There's a young buck who has been eating my roses right on our porch outside our sliding glass doors. He even comes almost every night even when all the lights are on, windows/doors open and the TV blaring. If you chase him off, he comes right backQuote:I agree. They aren't supposed to eat lilac bushes. Tell that to my poor lilac bush. Then they rub their fuzz off their antlers on my fig tree and break the branches.When they come into my yard, how about if I send them to your house? And eat all your plants? I always go to the nursery and ask about plants for deer. They say, you want something deer resistant? And I say no, I want something that will make them choke to death and die!
Deb
There's a momma doe, yearling, and fawn down the street too and they look really skinny. The wild pigs are so desperate that they plowed through the neighbors electric fence to get to their lawn! I wouldn't mind the deer if they ate my lawn instead of the fruit trees and roses...grrrrr. Our dogs are the only reason why I still have fruit trees, a lawn and chickens. What good girls they are and we're lucky to have them. But the dogs have to sleep sometime and that is when the deer sneak in on the opposite side of the house. Hopefully the wild pigs don't sneak in... they can cause A LOT of damage in minutes.On a side note I saw a roadrunner in our yard! I've haven't seen one in the North state in all the years I've lived here. I saw them in AZ, but not here. Really neat bird! I looked them up on the internet and saw that they would eat small birds and ran out to check on some chicks I was letting free range. Luckily the chicks were all fine, but it seems everything likes to eat chickens, LOL.
edited to add: There's also almost NO acorns on the oaks around our property this year. The deer and pigs will really miss that food supply and have even a harder time finding food. No acorns + very little grass= less squirrels and gophers =no food for the coyotes= very hungry coyotes going after livestock.
Trisha
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