Nancy - Posted - 02/07/2012:  06:11:22

Deer took out 12 arborvite evergreens. Nothing left of the trees. Deer candy? I guess so. 

   I am really not all that upset. Guess the trees needed thinning anyway. Now they are really thin. Dead even.

  They only trimmed the ones out by the woodhouse shed to deer head height. 

 Deer don't acknowledge fences...clear them easy. 

 Looked out at them a few feet from my bedroom window. The deer just looked at me and gave me no never mind. 

Will dig out roots of the trees when the ground is thawed and softer. So much for that.

I have to laugh at the hunters. They search for deer. Heck. I know where the deer are...here. Lots of deer. 

Nancy

wife_of_xplainer - Posted - 02/07/2012:  07:31:16

We watched a doe and fawn running around playfully in our back yard a couple of springs ago.  They walk through the yard all the time.  Jimmy puts deer corn out on the hill just beyond the back yard and down by the pond.  He moves his wildlife camera back and forth and we get to see deer, raccoons, foxes and such all the time.  Jimmy has learned too that I'm not the only critter on the place that loves peanut butter.  I fully expect to see a picture or video of one of these deer making faces at the camera one of these days.

gshall - Posted - 02/07/2012:  10:36:45

Last year when we had a lot of snow in Tennessee the goats stripped one Maple tree of its bark. It never recovered. It's nice when all they eat is leaves and sticks. All the trees are trimmed to the height of the tallest goat, and there are no spider webs under them.

pickNgrin - Posted - 02/07/2012:  10:50:08

If you don't want them around any more you could probably get some local hunters to take care of them for you. You could barter with them for a share of the venison (they take X deer and give you Y amount of processed venison).

-matt

bubbalouie - Posted - 02/07/2012:  16:59:38

Same here Nancy!. I shoot deer with my pea shooter right from the chair I'm sitting in right now!.

I babied a Hardy Banana tree ( I was told deer didn,t eat them) from a foot tall to over 10 feet. It even had a pup at the bottom that I was getting ready to start another one from. Deer ate the whole thing!. Not my favorite critter. I vented on this here before. What they don't eat they trample or just pull out.

mike gregory - Posted - 02/08/2012:  04:05:41

Unforgettable bumper sticker, years ago:

"BAMBI'S MOTHER HAD IT COMING!"

8thpol - Posted - 02/08/2012:  04:08:16

Deer Candy is delicious...........

PD Kirby - Posted - 02/08/2012:  04:55:01

Maybe you could hang Roger out on the wood shed to scare them off like a Scarecrow only he would be a Scarebison.

Banjo Bud - Posted - 02/08/2012:  05:03:20

If you want to keep them away (this may sound gross but.....) go to a local barber or beauty shop and ask them to keep the hair trimmings and put in a garbage bag. Bring home and sprinkle the hair around trees and shrubs. This should keep them away for a while. Even under a light snow. Reapply as necessary. If that doesn't work, pee on the trees and bushes. That works too.

Good luck.....

racer - Posted - 02/08/2012:  06:44:16

Hi wolf urin works well .Ron

pick it - Posted - 02/08/2012:  13:18:17

last winter with all the snow the deer was was making a home in my yard and eating my  arborvite trees .I mentioned this to my barber while geting my hair cut,afterwards he swept up a small plastic bag of hair I took it home spread some out and hung the bag in the plants,....no more deer problems renew the bag about every 3 weeks...sorry after I posted this I read Buds post on the same thing,it works

Edited by - pick it on 02/08/2012 13:20:10

Brian T - Posted - 02/08/2012:  16:20:10

Locals burlap their arborvitae/ornamental cedars and rhododendron shrubs.
The deer eat as high as they can reach. . . . . fairly stupid-looking bushes after that!

bubbalouie - Posted - 02/08/2012:  17:06:09

Yeah Brian They look like an apple core at the bottom . I thought everyone trimmed them like that on purpose when I moved here!.