Phillybonker
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Found evidence of a deer in my grow area. Does anyone know what is the best deterrent for a deer?
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Haha!! While I might have to substitute lion shit for dog shit. I found the deer's sleeping area and took a piss on it's bed. But I'll try dog shit as well.Lion shit. Or most any of the big cats, really (tiger, the aforementioned lion, jaguar, leopard and snow leopard, cheetah and cougar). Preferably really fresh, too. Deer are a lot dumber than crows, so hanging a dead one up in the middle of your garden won't do it. If they're hungry, they'll shoulder right by it to get to a tasty plant. Unless they're starving, then they might stop for a few bites first.
Where I live, fencing is the only real option and they’re pushing against it every day looking for holes.
I should mention- I’ve got lots here. About 7 that are regular enough in my yard I can tell them apart and call them by name, and a few others that I get mixed up. Four of them that will eat out of my hand. I still manage to keep them fenced out of the garden with netting, but none of the other tricks that you read about would work on them
Are those farm deer or wild deer that are use to humans?
Oh hell yeah. They see and smell all the plants inside. When they push against the netting they can nibble at the edges of my garden.Hmmm that's interesting. So the deer still try to get at the plants even with fencing.
When I put that plant down to take photos that fawn came running like a kid who just saw a candy mountain. Her expression says it all. I just had time to snap a couple pics and she had her nose stuck right in the plant before I shooed her away.
I'm growing out in the forest so won't be able to use a water sprinkler but you gave me another idea (because you mentioned motion sensor).....a trial camera that has WiFi and audio capabilities,so I can scare it off.An water sprinkler on a motion sensor
When it trips the sensor I'm going play a recording as loud as possible of a pride of big fucking hungry lions. The deer will shit it's self.I worked hard to make friends with those deer.
It wasn’t me you mentioned who mentioned motion sensors but that is a good idea. Yeah I think they make some that you can communicate through -tell the deer to piss off.
The way deer think- their number one priority is to not get eaten and so they are always scanning around looking for anything new. They did not like new things. As soon as the new thing becomes an old thing though, they will not care about it much anymore. So it’s possible that there will come a day when you’ll be swearing and yelling through your motion detector thing and they’ll just laugh.
Also you can plan to lose a lot of sleep, because they don’t keep the same hours as us.