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Oh! Deer, Deer, Deer

steve duggins(Z6a) - Central Ohio

4 years ago

last modified: 4 years ago

Woke up this morning to this.

A couple weeks ago it was two young bucks browsing behind these. Those celery stalks are in the neighbor's yard.

I guess that deer spray I'm using really does work.

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Jon 6a SE MA

4 years ago

"“The sulfurous smell given off by the putrefied egg mimics the smell of rotting meat, giving deer the impression there is a predator in the vicinity,” says Scott Williams, an assistant scientist for the Connecticut Department of Forestry and Horticulture and co-author of the study. “The smell also mimics the scent of urine from a predator who would have likely feasted on another animal. This is the theory behind the use of eggs in all these repellents.” The odor diminishes for humans soon after application, but it lingers for deer, which have a superior sense of smell.

Of the 10 commercial deer repellents tested in the Connecticut study, Bobbex (fish meal, hot pepper, putrid eggs, dried blood, wintergreen oil and more) performed best, achieving 93 percent protection compared with the 100 percent protection of a fence." Ct. Experimental Station Study based on previous studies by other institutions.

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girlnamedgalez8a
4 years ago
At my house the spray works as long as I start spraying early enough in the spring & reapply every 2 weeks. Once I miss a spraying it is all over, the deer move in. This is in N> TX where I have to water a lot.
sandyslopes z6 n. UT
4 years ago
That's some good deer repellant! Which one is it? I'm glad those celery stalks are not your hostas, but they came darn close.

I'm very lucky so far that the deer around here have no taste for hostas. They walk right by them in search of juicy flower buds right before they open.

Last November this handsome fellow came though my yard.

He stood out because of the marking on his forehead. I wonder if the lady deer were as impressed as I was.
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Anglophilia
4 years ago
Yes, it must be started early and applied often. I was very tired of the "celery stalks" in my front garden. So far, so good, this year!
ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
4 years ago
why did you call the still spotted fawns.. and momma... bucks??

im sure about sandys buck .. lol ... wicked unibrow and all .. lol ...

the celery stalks are greenery.. so they are still storing energy from light.. for next year ...

and lets be honest.. its basically september.. its all downhill from here ...

hopefully they ate some slugs on the night leaf feeding ...

ken
steve duggins(Z6a) - Central Ohio
Original Author
4 years ago
Whatever brand they had at Lowes - Deer Fence?

I didn't really apply the deer fence early. It wasn't until they started eating my daylily buds that I started applying it.

I didn't get pics of the young bucks, but the antlers were a dead give away. It happened two weeks before the doe/fawn pics. They ran off so I could only get pics of the devastation.

Sandy - That's the coolest unibrow I've seen.
Jon 6a SE MA
4 years ago
last modified: 4 years ago
Steve, I have been using Deer Fence (Home Depot here), but looking at recent studies I'm switching to Bobbex. 32 oz makes 2 1/2 gallons on Amazon. $20.75.
zkathy z7a NC
4 years ago
I’d like to know how high a fence they were comparing the deer repellant to.
Jon 6a SE MA
4 years ago
zkathy, I don't think they set up any fencing, they state the "fence" was 100% protection.
dhaven
4 years ago
My fences are 8 feet tall, a really motivated and very large buck can get over that height, but only if there is something really good on the other side, like ripe apples. Standard wisdom here in Iowa is that 8 1/2 feet will stop even the largest bucks.
djacob Z6a SE WI
4 years ago
This is certainly an issue I don’t have to worry about being right in the middle of the city...... only the slugs and one unruly juvenile raccoon! :-)
nicholsworth Z6 Indianapolis
4 years ago
steve..this brings back memories..years ago I looked out once and we had 6 deer in the backyard..I've had damage similar to your neighbor's..but there was an authorized deer hunt (complete with protesters) in the huge state park nearby and since then no deer in my backyard..they will probably show up someday..

sandyslopes..a beautiful pic of a beautiful animal..

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