Mouse Deterrent?
wyndyacre
18 years ago
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Electric fence for deer and groundhog deterrent
Comments (18)Lavender_lass, what you are talking about is the reason why I suggested that the OP read up on how to properly use electric fencing to deter deer. The baiting of the fence so that the first contact made is a sharp zap to a tender area is very important. Otherwise the combination of the deer's coat and hooves insulate them from the bulk of the current and no real lesson is learned. Also the amount of electricity used for deer deterant is stronger than conventionally used for horse containment. It is a little different. But yes, the two sets of fences is what I planne to turn to next if my single strand failed to work. I have a herd of 20 deer that frequent the edges of my property. An interesting side story about the difference a little insulation will make... Last year I was creating the garden and got tired of turning the fencer on and off, so would just go under the wire. It was spring, and cool, so I was wearing sneakers and a fleece vest. I never felt the fence at all, so it became quite the habit... Until the first day that it was warm and I was bare foot and wearing just a tee shirt. As I went under the fence that time the current made the muscles in my back seize and in my legs as well, so one second I am sliding under the fence as usual and the next I am flat on my face in the mud wondering what the heck just happened. Respect the fence....See MoreMy own squirrel deterrent method (image intensive)
Comments (7)GGG -- Boo Boo Kitty sounds like she earned a well-deserved retirement after years of being on duty. I have my other two kitties relegated to the indoors for medical reasons. Someday Starbuck will have to retire but she's only about 4 so hopefully she still has years of service to my gardening cause ahead of her. rjinga, love your babies too. Especially the white one staring into the camera. So far I haven't been able to train A.J. to stay out of my daylily field so I feel your pain. I can't tell you how many buds he's broken as he bounds by. He only showed up on our property as a starving pup last April and we're still working on some "issues". At the end of daylily blooming season last fall I put nylon pantyhose footies over all of my developing seed pods that I hybridized just like I always do to protect them from insect damage. Well, A.J. must have gotten bored and thought they looked fun to play with so when I got back from work one day I found somewhere between 30 or 40 nylon stockings littering my field, complete with huge broken off seed pods inside, slightly chewed of course. I could have killed him!!! All that time spent planning my crosses, gathering pollen, pollinating and waiting...all for nothing. Aaargh! I would have had far fewer casualties with the bugs, so this year no panty hose. Eventually maybe I'll get it fenced off with low voltage electric wire and hopefully he and any hungry deer will get the hint quickly. He only knows the difference between cats and everything else that moves. He actually ran down a HUGE wild turkey that just happened to walk out of the woods one day while we were on a walk. That was the day I learned my sweet, submissive wouldn't-hurt-a-kitten stray pooch had some serious hunting dog in his gene pool. The turkey and I just stood there and looked at each other for a minute, we were both so surprised by the other's sudden appearance. But the instant he got nervous and decided to run away he was doomed. A.J.'s chase instinct kicked in and they both disappeared over the hill just as the bird took flight low to the ground. I was concerned about the dog because those turkeys can actually inflict some serious damage when threatened. I looked and looked for him for over an hour with no luck. Finally later that evening I walked out of the house to look for him again and he was laying in the yard next to a giant turkey carcass. I was shocked! Not only had he killed it but he dragged it back home over a mile and that bird was much bigger than he was! So....who's craving a turkey sandwich? Danielle...See MoreYou Dirty Rat!!!
Comments (9)What a relief. I thought I was the only one. I've been chasing a mole/field rat or something like that out of my garden area for about 2 weeks. Everytime I put in a few cucumber or squash sprouts, one or more disappear within 2 hours. This has happened atleast 4 times. I've got some weed barrier over the whole area. Well last night I got mad, I waited for that thing to come out last night with a metal rod. Spotted him but he was too quick. Saw him dash under the weed barrier. I lifted every bit of barrier off last night, found 4 different holes, started to flood the holes (they started to back up) Instead of flood the whole area - since I was just starting to plant a few things in this area I decided to TILL the critter under. Spent an hour just rolling back over the area tilling very slowly where I found those holes. For two days now there has been no sign of it. And my plants and I are much happier....See MoreBats
Comments (25)I don't know if we're having a bat problem, but I did go up into the attic this morning to set off one of those bug bombs. I noticed a lot of droppings in 1 spot. I've seem bat droppings before at my sisters, her's are just a bunch of little pellets. This is more than just the little pellets. Still small in size, but not little pellets. Would this still be from a bat? I can't see anywhere that is letting light in. I sleep like a log, but still wouldn't you think I'd hear something up there? There was nothing up there this morning, so my first thought was bats. We had 2 while under rehabbing in the living areas. They were easily removed. Not flying around, just hanging on the walls....See Morerenais
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