Pond Boss Forums GENERAL QUESTIONS Wildlife Management How to keep Deer away.

Thanks, I am going to try that. I built a very large garden that I really don't want to fence in. The deer have been walking through it but nothing that has popped out of the ground is very big for them to eat just yet. White ribbon sounds cheap and easy which is my kind of thing. (Don't tell my wife I said that. She'll think I'm talking about her.)

I’ve tried hot wire and found that deer sometimes lunge against it. Some times it works but not 100%.

We use deer and rabbit repellent from tractor supply and it actually works… smells to high heaven though……

The 5' cages work best for me. Even if I could get them to stop eating them with ribbons or chemicals they seem to like them as rub trees.

Motel/Hotel soap bar in a piece of pantyhose hung on tree/plant. More it rains the more it's smells like Ode Defuffoo #5 (perfume)..

since this thread started I planted a patch of blueberry plants and put an electric wire around them powered by solar, and it barely deterred them at all, they chewed em down a good bit, they still alive tho, since the weather has warmed up, longer days and more sunshine it seems to be working a lot better, I also heard of a style of electric fence that is supposed to work great for deer, you put a three wire fence up, I gotta google the dimensions again but seems like on wire about 24" off the ground and another at about 3' then a third wire about 24" to the inside or outside of the other two staggered in elevation from the first two, something about making it a wider fence to jump over and a little harder to slide under. I was going to figure out how to make a standoff to attach to a fence post to hold the other wire out like that, may be able to mow up under the wire and a little easier to put up,,, but alas, I got busy and havent got to it yet.

gehajake,
My in-laws had a terrible problem with deer eating their landscaping until an old farmer told them to put a single strand of electric fence about 6 inches off the ground. I doubted that would work myself but 4 years later and they no longer have any problems with deer. It sounds crazy I know but you learn something new everyday. For fruit trees at the cabin I cut 10 foot sections of 2x4 fencing wire, drove 2 T post on opposite sides of each tree and formed a circle around each tied to the T posts about 10 inches off the ground to bush hog. I’ve had no problems with deer since I put them up last summer. The T post idea came from someone on here but I can’t remember who did it, maybe RAH?

Turn the power to the electric fence off. Put a piece of tin foil on it, and smear some Peanut Butter on the tinfoil. Turn the fence back on. The deer will lick the tinfoil and won't like it a bit.....

The key to fence away deer is to place 2 rows of fence about 24" apart. If you want to try a low wire perimeter, you should have better success with 2 rows of wire.

It may have been me that talked about a fence off the ground for mowing purposes, I did that for my fruit trees several yrs ago and love it.
As for the wire 6 inches above the ground, that may work great, Ive been doing that at home around my garden for yrs to keep coons and possums out of my tomatoes, a hot wire about 4 inches off the ground then a grounded wire about 4" above that with another hot wire about 4" above it, the whole thing is only about a ft tall but I haven't had a varmint or a deer in my garden since, I just figured I got lucky on the deer part, didnt realize that low wire may have been keeping them out.