Last fall I started out with 5 does and a 10 point buck coming through
the yard at different times. Over the winter they started eating my taxus
yews and I'm thinking my rhodys are next.
This afteroon I come home at 4:00 and find a doe and the buck standing in
the side yard, went after them by charging and throwing a snow shovel and snowballs at them and moved them into a neighbors yard where they just stood and laughed at me.
I know fencing would be my best defense but has anyone used the electronic devices or sprays with any success????
My arm is already sore from throwing the useless snowballs.
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Cut a t shirt or someting else into strips. Take the cheapest, skankiest perfume you can find and soak the rags in it. Tie them to the bushes and trees around the yard. That is the way I got them to stay away from my fruit trees. A buddy of mine from upstae New York told that, who raises fruit, and it worked for him and does for me. Smells sucky to them even in winter.
Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
Very surprised the buck still has antlers this late in the year. There is a spray on the market that you can spray on and around the bushes that will keep them from eating them. Also, there is a plastic thing that you stick in the ground and it is supposed to keep them away as well. Check farmtek.com they may have something. Tractor supply might too.
that buck should have dropped his horns long before now.. that is strange...
wow.. I live in liberal ma.. in the woods mind you.. but in what most folks here love to refer to as a communist state.. and I know I could blast them deer.. and nobody would say a word.... (might cost me a few neighborly steaks tho ).. I heard some gun blasting late the other night.. thought nothing of it.. kinda could tell where it came from (general direction).. and just kinda thought to myself.. oh well.. Ray's bagged a coyote or two to keep away from his chickens.....
get the hair sweepings and Fox pee
BTW.. IF you had a dog.. you would not have such worries...
as for Danica.. she might finish in the wall, the way them boys been driving...
Last edited by Karl F; 02-24-2013 at 02:00 PM..
Reason: forgot a couple things
that buck should have dropped his horns long before now.. that is strange...
wow.. I live in liberal ma.. in the woods mind you.. but in what most folks here love to refer to as a communist state.. and I know I could blast them deer.. and nobody would say a word.... (might cost me a few neighborly steaks tho ).. I heard some gun blasting late the other night.. thought nothing of it.. kinda could tell where it came from (general direction).. and just kinda thought to myself.. oh well.. Ray's bagged a coyote or two to keep away from his chickens.....
get the hair sweepings and Fox pee
BTW.. IF you had a dog.. you would not have such worries...
as for Danica.. she might finish in the wall, the way them boys been driving...
Yup, shiney yellow/brown 10 points in all his glory.
Ya, you have good neighbors.
Goin out on a limb here, but if she keeps driving at the pace of the first 53 laps
she could end up in top 10 without machine or track mishap.
Cut a t shirt or someting else into strips. Take the cheapest, skankiest perfume you can find and soak the rags in it. Tie them to the bushes and trees around the yard. That is the way I got them to stay away from my fruit trees. A buddy of mine from upstae New York told that, who raises fruit, and it worked for him and does for me. Smells sucky to them even in winter.
Swimmer, how often do you need to redip in perfume?
Sounds like it works great if it keeps them away from fruit trees.
Thanks
Never got around to trying it but HD or any farm supply store sells a concoction for your garden sprayer. I have heard a mixture of red pepper and water in the sprayer may work also. They come thru my yard nightly and sometimes during the day. They have eaten just about everything including the rhody's! I built a feeder with hay and pellets and just feed them now. They are fun to watch all be it expensive on the shrubs.
If they are still there in the fall lemme know! I may have a more permanent solution! And my freezer will just about empty by then...
Hey Karl, how about Mark Martin 3rd. See, there's still hope for you old guys. LOL
Danica can drive me back and forth to The Cape anytime.
Ain't NOBODY ever ran Moonshine in a Toyota!... honestly. I have been amazed that the post Toyota days of Nascar has not lost the "good ol boy" following... speaks volumes of just how hypocritacla we have become..waving the flag.. and Buy American.. but it's OK to root for team toyo.. uke:...
Anyways.. Nascar has strayed so far away from it's roots.. and YES, I know it is just nameplates.. and Advertising.. the days of actually companies producing 500 models of a "stock car" to satisfy the rules, are long gone.. but.. those were better days, for certain
Team Kia and Team Hyundai, etc. etc. will all make the top five at some point... sake and sushi for all...y'all!
BUT.. that is just my 2 cents, and that will get ya nowhere fast!
Danica driving you anywhere.. you and Clammer must take the same sleep meds to have such dreams...
hey i was buying a jar of Honey at walmart and it was 50 cents cheaper
than another both having a rick darker color and not the clover variety
with all the tea in CHINA that Karl's got me drinkin..
but i looked at the cheaper one and it was made in INDIA
so i chose the $3.50 jar because it was distributed from NEWYORK
so i can WALK proudly heh heh
Man, considering how much the squirrels tearing apart my bird feeders pisses me off, I can't imagine the rage if deer were coming through and trashing the plants as well.
Fortunately, the squirrel problem seems to have been mostly resolved, until the young start spreading out for new territory in the spring. Haven't seen one on the feeder in over a week. The effectiveness of pellets at 1000fps from 100' away is quite amazing.
Ain't NOBODY ever ran Moonshine in a Toyota!... honestly. I have been amazed that the post Toyota days of Nascar has not lost the "good ol boy" following... speaks volumes of just how hypocritacla we have become..waving the flag.. and Buy American.. but it's OK to root for team toyo.. uke:...
Anyways.. Nascar has strayed so far away from it's roots.. and YES, I know it is just nameplates.. and Advertising.. the days of actually companies producing 500 models of a "stock car" to satisfy the rules, are long gone.. but.. those were better days, for certain
Team Kia and Team Hyundai, etc. etc. will all make the top five at some point... sake and sushi for all...y'all!
BUT.. that is just my 2 cents, and that will get ya nowhere fast!
Danica driving you anywhere.. you and Clammer must take the same sleep meds to have such dreams...
If truth be told,it always was and and always will be about the almighty buck.
Ya,an old man's dream along with a lot of young men's wishes.
Thanks for all the good suggestions. Appreciate it.
For now I'm going with Bobbex spray, comb of galic etc, supposed to stick the best and a Guardian ultasonic sound/ strobe that covers 5000sq ft. I was told they get used to the spray odors so you need to switch out the sprays every few months to be affective.
Will let you know how they work.
Swimmer, how often do you need to redip in perfume?
Sounds like it works great if it keeps them away from fruit trees.
Thanks
When it smells no more to your nose they can still smell the perfume, so use that as a beginning and end, so to speak. I use it on my trees. They stopped eating the new shoots for starters. Have to cut up the old long johns I just cleaned out of my bureau for this years batch.
Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
Thanks for all the good suggestions. Appreciate it.
For now I'm going with Bobbex spray, comb of galic etc, supposed to stick the best and a Guardian ultasonic sound/ strobe that covers 5000sq ft. I was told they get used to the spray odors so you need to switch out the sprays every few months to be affective.
Will let you know how they work.
If none of it works I will offer you my bowhunting pest removal services for free.....
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).. I heard some gun blasting late the other night.. thought nothing of it.. kinda could tell where it came from (general direction).. and just kinda thought to myself.. oh well.. Ray's bagged a coyote or two to keep away from his chickens..... 
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