Deer Fence / Repellent / alternative?

[markT]

Appreciate the replys guys. I sent a message to hair stylist to start saving hair again. I'll try the cheap colone too.
I did speak with SC DNR last year and since I don't grow the sunflowers for "profit" I don't qualify for a depredation permit.
I am planting a sacrificial area with sunflowers for the deer. Its right up next to a highway. Ha, go play in traffic too. They can eat all they would like. But keep your
hooves out of my sunflower field! It's for doves!

 

[okie]

Sir when we had a garden i would run electric fence, wipe it down with peanut butter a few times a season. Even had people stop an ask how it worked, and it worked fine, it may work better if you run a ground wire above and below with power in the middle, never had a deer problem for years. good luck Painter

yep on the ground--peanut butter excellent idea

 

[okie]

Appreciate the replys guys. I sent a message to hair stylist to start saving hair again. I'll try the cheap colone too.
I did speak with SC DNR last year and since I don't grow the sunflowers for "profit" I don't qualify for a depredation permit.
I am planting a sacrificial area with sunflowers for the deer. Its right up next to a highway. Ha, go play in traffic too. They can eat all they would like. But keep your
hooves out of my sunflower field! It's for doves!

I will send you a $10 check for your sunflowers---now you are making what rest of us farmers are!!! lol-tell DNR you got a contract on em...

 

[markT]

The peanut butter you mentioned. I assume that is for the "electrified ribbon" and when their moist noses or tongue touches it, a most unpleasant shock occurs? Would that be correct?

 

[okie]

The peanut butter you mentioned. I assume that is for the "electrified ribbon" and when their moist noses or tongue touches it, a most unpleasant shock occurs? Would that be correct?

Im sure thats what painter meant.
the ground wire is for when it is dry to make sure they get a jolt by touching both wires.
when ground is dry they may not get full jolt when touching the hot side...
i have this problem in july & aug with my calves

 

[JBO]

Milorganite will repel deer. Spread on food plots deer seem to avoid the area and stay away until the milorganite is diluted in the soil, gives plants enough time to get established. In my experience it seems to last over a month.

 

[okie]

Milorganite will repel deer. Spread on food plots deer seem to avoid the area and stay away until the milorganite is diluted in the soil, gives plants enough time to get established. In my experience it seems to last over a month.

thats poo--right??

 

[markT]

I tried the Milorganite a couple years ago. It worked for a while.. but it's kinda $$$$. I didn't remember that possibility until you mentioned it.

 

[wvlongshot]

Yes the peanut butter attracts them for a mouth/nose shock. They will leave it alone then. But have to keep it baited for newcomers. You can cut aluminum foil in strips 1" wide and 5" or so long and roll them on the wire and let hang down like a tail. Bait it with smear of peanut butter and watch the show.

 

[ngb1787]

Hang a sign “Fresh Deer Burgers”

 

[alinwa]

As a long time gardener I have had a decades long fight with browsing deer. The trouble with hair clippings, cologne, soap shavings etc. is that deer get used to them and then ignore them. Even motion lights and motion activated sprinklers radios etc. are ignored after awhile. The sprays work but as you have said they are expensive and sooner or later the rain will wash them off and you will forget to reapply. I have to say that the advice one old timer gave me years ago that if a deer is stressed or hungry enough it will eat ANYTHING GREEN spray or no spray holds very true. So after spending a lot of dollars on plants and sprays and other gimmicks I only plant ornamentals that are so called "deer resistant" in my yard but I expect them to get at the very least nipped at and tried by the deer. For my vegetable garden it's a multi wire 9-10ft. fence with an electric fence charger nothing has worked better than this. Good Luck

+1

but I DO like the peanut butter/'lectric fence idea!! Mainly because you can get a battery-powered fencer and white flatwire for 2 cents a foot which makes it a monetary reality.

 

[Bc'z]

A bar of Irish spring soap in a cloth bag nailed to a stake will keep deer away from a deer stand . Especially if that stand is on your property line.

Got a buddy swears by dial gold

 

[Rsadams]

As a long time gardener I have had a decades long fight with browsing deer. The trouble with hair clippings, cologne, soap shavings etc. is that deer get used to them and then ignore them. Even motion lights and motion activated sprinklers radios etc. are ignored after awhile. The sprays work but as you have said they are expensive and sooner or later the rain will wash them off and you will forget to reapply. I have to say that the advice one old timer gave me years ago that if a deer is stressed or hungry enough it will eat ANYTHING GREEN spray or no spray holds very true. So after spending a lot of dollars on plants and sprays and other gimmicks I only plant ornamentals that are so called "deer resistant" in my yard but I expect them to get at the very least nipped at and tried by the deer. For my vegetable garden it's a multi wire 9-10ft. fence with an electric fence charger nothing has worked better than this. Good Luck

+1 on the high fence , there's 10 in my front yard right now....I tryed the spray and other stuff but the fence works...

 

[helmut in the bush]

Invite the Amish over

 

[Immike]

Has anyone tried a coyote or dog decoy? That just might work well.

 

[markT]

I've seen the coyote silhouette used for Canada geese and works well. Not sure these nocturnal brown goats would care about a plastic cut out? But maybe worth a try.

 

[#40Fan]

I'll take $10 worth of sunflower seeds too, if that will help with the DNR.

 

[WyleWD]

Has anyone tried a coyote or dog decoy? That just might work well.

Tried that. It worked like a charm for about a month or so. The Deer and their raccoon buddies got all my sweet corn (all 12 rows) the day before I was going to pick it. WD

 

[hammerjack]

I have seen trail cam pics of deer and coyotes together eating corn in my bait pile.

 

[Immike]

Tried that. It worked like a charm for about a month or so. The Deer and their raccoon buddies got all my sweet corn (all 12 rows) the day before I was going to pick it. WD

A couple of those motion sensor talking fish hidden in the corn would scare the crap out of them! Lol don’t they make a barking dog version?

When that corn is ready it’s pretty much every man for himself!!