Here are a bunch of recipes -- fortunately I don't have deer issues, since I live in a fairly urban-y suburban area.
When I did live in rural areas, I never found anything that worked constantly. I had to sort of rotate them in and out. Anything with egg smell and/or human hair in it seemed to work best.
My poor neighbors---the area that most needs to be "marked" off-limits is right beside their backyard pool. Too bad though because I'm not going to let the deer eat up a few thousand in shrubs, trees, and flowers. Apparently the deer are very used to dogs since the neighbors on all sides of me own dogs that are allowed outdoors. The deer will actually stand there and look at me until I move in their direction---that's how used to people they are! :^{
Can you set up lights and a sprinkler on a motion sensor? They don't care for either when used suddenly. Repellents have to be renewed after rains and on a tegular basis. They also should be roatated to keep the deer from getting too used to the scents.
We're having some increasing deer pressure here too. Honestly, the options for the long run are fencing, hunting, or just accepting that you will have some serious damage to deer-magnet plants and mild damage to deer-resistant plants. There are very nice deer-resistant plants; I'm discovering new cultivars of foxglove and oregano lately.
Yesterday I chased a deer for three laps around my vegetable garden before she finally got perturbed enough to jump the fence back into the neighbor's thicket. Sheesh.
Watch that, deer-chasing. If they decide they've had enough of you bedeviling them, they can and have been known to turn and fight---even does without fawns. And those hooves are like flint- or obsidian-bladed knives. Getting head-rammed by a deer, especially by a buck, isn't any joke, either, from what I understand.
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When I did live in rural areas, I never found anything that worked constantly. I had to sort of rotate them in and out. Anything with egg smell and/or human hair in it seemed to work best.
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Thanks!
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I'm told soap chips work but it didn't for us
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Too bad though because I'm not going to let the deer eat up a few thousand in shrubs, trees, and flowers.
Apparently the deer are very used to dogs since the neighbors on all sides of me own dogs that are allowed outdoors.
The deer will actually stand there and look at me until I move in their direction---that's how used to people they are!
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Hmmm. Hubby the Uber-Geek may get pressed into service after all!
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;^D
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Yesterday I chased a deer for three laps around my vegetable garden before she finally got perturbed enough to jump the fence back into the neighbor's thicket. Sheesh.
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And those hooves are like flint- or obsidian-bladed knives. Getting head-rammed by a deer, especially by a buck, isn't any joke, either, from what I understand.
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