Danged deer...

[turney31]

When I had my beauty shop, I had a guy who asked me to save him some hair clippings. He would put these hair clippings in panty hose bags and hang them in and around his garden and trees. He swore it kept the deer out of his garden.

 

[ivan3]

Since you're in Suburbia, I'd suggest an 8ft. fence post and 6ft. welded wire `run' for your pear.

We're in ungulate rat paradise (throw rocks at them and they might move off a few ft.). All our flowers/bushes/vines are the most toxic of ornamentals. All small saplings are fenced.

We imagined, when the CO. paved the road in 2000, that the cars would harvest the excess

. No matter how many carcasses we get the field agent to remove from ditches, more keep coming. And, yes, deer are hunted to the limit and beyond.

Bald Cypress will have bark stripped, but they survive nicely. Hazelnut spreads and they can't eat it all. Guard your Pecans!

 

[KenK]

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I have used this theory to very good effect. I have a small 20'x40' garden fenced off with 4' tall chain link dog kennel panels. Obviously a deer could jump right over a 4' fence but I think they see it more as a trap than as a normal fence.

To me it is better than a permanent fence because I just tie the panels to steel posts driven in the ground and I can move any or all of the panels out of my way in just a few minutes. Makes it much easier to till.

 

[laseterlass]

I love Anchorage. While it is illegal to discharge a weapon within city limits. It is legal to shoot in defense of property. The problem is. They come thru while we sleep. Our backyard is scary because of the dogs. But for 10 years we have tried to grow a tree in the front lawn. Native species, that the woods are full of. But not allowed by Moose law on lawns apparently. I currently have a fenced in birch tree out there. We have bets on how long it will last.

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

Guns and dogs. That's all I have to say.

 

[mom'sfolly]

Moose a definitely worse than deer, but I'm probably 1000 miles from the nearest moose.

Again, suburbia. Not only are guns not allowed, anyone stupid enough to discharge one is such a crowded neighborhood deserves to hang. JMHO.

I'll try some of the suggestions, but with the current drought I think anything green and easy to get at is going to get eaten.

I'm expecting snakes at the new pond, and I hoping the deer don't eat the water lilies.

 

[Dunkopf]

When you see deer having twins you know something is out of whack in the cycle of life. Did anyone cry at Bambi?

 

[gamebirdboy]

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I've seen fawns get stuck in hog traps... They had it next to the pond and it was really green there. He caught one and another thought about trying it... But traps aren't a good way to go... The spray doesn't really work that well, maybe a dog? Or you could get a bow like me...

 

[herfrds]

Only way we found to keep deer out of our hay stacks was hunters and hot lead.
Nothing else worked.
Tried everything from fences to soap to urine to cracker shells.

 

[littlefork]

We fenced in our yard and garden, 7 foot high woven deer fence zip tied on metal poles with metal chew guard along the bottom to prevent the ground critters from chewing through. Have not seen a deer inside the fenced area, our nut trees are finally growing after five years, and our garden looks great this year.