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Pet deer
For the last month we have been seeing a deer in our little urban woods. It appeared to be a doe. She was eating out in the open in daylight. I wondered why she would be hungry in the daytime. She has eaten all our Hastas and many other things.
A few days ago I was in our bathroom and looked down and right there 8 feet away were two fawns with spots eating. They are about 30" at the shoulder. I said to myself aha! ....that is why the eating in the daytime.....getting enough to feed two youngsters. Now I have not seen the fawns since but the momma is still around a lot. She is not too afraid but she will not allow me to get close to her without bolting. We call her our pet deer but the neighbor confirms she is her pet too. Lovely.
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The former owners of our house used to feed the deer. They had a feeding trough and salt lick set up for them. When we moved in, we were surprised that the deer population was about five per acre. Although we stopped feeding them, they came around out of habit, and passed the knowledge to their young. Hostas? Eaten to a nub. Rhoodendron? eaten to bare branches. Everything from ground level to six feet was leafless. The males would work the skin off their antlers by rubbing on the trees...several large trees were actually killed in this way. We reluctantly opened the property to bow hunting. It took three seasons to persuade the deer that it wasn't safe here any longer. So believe me when I tell you that ahhh cute gets old very fast. Don't make a pet of them.
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My little urban woods is only about a half acre including the part that actually no longer belongs to me. Between ours and the neighbor perhaps there is enough to support a deer or two.
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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC] ..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis. |
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I have read they love poison ivy. I have a bumper crop going again this year if you want to take them all for a picnic here.
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I have plenty of my own.
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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC] ..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis. |
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There are a lot of deer in my neighborhood as there are very heavily wooded hills behind my house, I have had the deer eat my tulips (I stopped plantong them) and I don't have any Hosta because deer love to eat them.
I try to plant flowers that deer don't like including daffodil, marigold and hyacinth, I have found that Milorganite, which is a fertilizer, is quite effective at repelling them. Last edited by captainaudio; 07-06-2020 at 09:39 AM. |
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Thanks for the excellent info!
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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC] ..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis. |
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My parents moved from Southern California to Eugene Oregon in the late 1960’s. They bought a small farm (about 20 acres) and the house had a large picture window at the front of the house. My mother planted flowers in the front yard and would get such joy getting up early in the morning and watching the deer nibble on the flowers.
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Wildlife managers use 40 acres per one dear as sustainable for the BEST conditions. But feeding can bring that down to a cage.
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Round up does wonders with that. And if you are worried about the surrounding vegetation get very selective, like an eye dropper. Come back 2 weeks later and see what you missed and get that.
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Well, I suppose that could depend on the stuff growing in it.
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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC] ..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis. |
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my deer pic
Took me a little time to get her where she would not bark when they come up to eat.
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Yeah, mine barks too. I'd like a little switch to shut the bark off.
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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC] ..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis. |
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I would often go out very early on the weekend and drink coffee in front of my workshop. There I would see all kinds of deer coming to graze. They "trimmed" my mulberry bushes and other vegetation but knew I would not hurt them. They got used to seeing me, I think, over six years. Now this is all gone. An ambitious developer has converted the acreage into plots with many many mini-mansions that he is selling for $300-500K each. I am periodically bombarded with requests to sell my property which I will do as soon as I find another one where I can pay cash for the property, move my workshop, sell the property and my current house, then retire. This over the next 18-24 months. I plan to move to a six-acre farm near a larger 100 acre farms, where I have the local shade and will attract some of the local fauna. I plan to have a haven for bees, wild flowers, and older Mercedes and Citroens.
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