So part of the fun of living in a rural area is deer! Nice to look at but eat EVERYTHING. I just drive past someone that had a 2 or 3 wire electric fence around their garden and thought wonder if that works?
Anyone have any experience?
Want to put it around my bee hives and wildflower meadow. My deer are different. They eat deer proof green giant arborvitae.
No real deer experience but they are getting closer to us…
For those in my area (Northeast Queens NYC) - I’ve spotted them on the Northern State west of the Meadowbrook.
Might keep them from walking through but we have seen deer clear a 5 to 6 foot fence with no problem.
In Wyoming, the fences that keep the livestock in are nothing for the deer to high jump.
Might want to put some feed out in an area where it is easy for them to get to and keep their interest away.
They are on my property daily.
Arborvitaes are a yummy treat.
Wire from around 4" down to bottom
Hostas? Forget it.
Geraniums? Dessert.
I have tried many sprays with little to no success.
Irish Spring soap shavings seem to work but for a short time . They melt.
Mimi roses? They even snack on the thorns!
Our back is fenced so we are safe there
Our small neighborhood is surrounded by open space . They use our side lawn to come from the open onto the street.
They’re very friendly and walk right up to us with no fear .
Raisins. They love raisins. Pumpkins. Grapes.
That’s just lettuce to them! lol
Again I don’t mind them, but they apparently were exploring the bee hives. That’s a hard no!
Get off my lawn you young wihppersnapper
Agree!!!
I found out 2 years ago that I am highly allergic to bee stings.
Literally almost took me out.
I have been traps everywhere.
But we get those swarms!!! Hundreds out of nowhere!
I’m gonna say something unpopular but remember I’m a TEXAS native, where hunting in rural areas is a social event!!.
Don’t eastern states allow deer hunting? Or nobody is interested because gun-owners of any sort have a bad name…
Not allowed to shoot Bambi, it’s Bambi’s dad w/ antlers(different states have different laws but in Texas a legal deer has at least one unbranched antler protruding through the skin.) There is a short doe season in Texas and many southwestern states-deer w/ no antlers- but think the does need to be 2-years old which is a fairly good-sized deer, not a fawn by any means. .
Size of deer herds have to be managed-reduced-otherwise homeowners will have no trees, no grass. no shrubs or flowers. Deer are herbivores- they’re constantly eating or chewing. They’ll eat anything fibrous including nuts(acorns)/berries!! A deer-proof fence needs to be 8-10 feet tall, which most suburban home-owners don’t think is attractive.
… or legal in some urban areas
I have to walk around deer every Saturday because my friends neighborhood has so many that they walk up to your door.
I am not a fan
Sure, it’s allowed. As is bear hunting (which gets far more people upset). The problem is that there are such huge areas where the deer can thrive, but hunting is impossible. We have deer in our neighborhood; I would have to drive probably 25-30 minutes to get to an area far enough away from occupied houses for it to be safe to discharge a gun, and even that would take a well planned route. Going south from my house would be probably 70 miles or more before finding a spot with no house or road within 1/2 mile. There is some culling, but awfully hard to keep up, even if no one protests.
And I don’t think that coyotes are going to make a big enough difference; even though the ones we get here are a lot bigger than the ones out west, I still don’t think that they are likely to take down a deer.
It depends where you are in any given state.
Upstate NY is the hunting capital of the world I think… Downstate NY, not so much…
If you don’t want a hunter on your property, you post a sign… Otherwise you’ll have someone hunting…
We have property in Ulster County. Often find trail cams on our property and the occasional tree stand. It’s kinda nuts when you think about it…
The property is marked no hunting but you can hear gunshots multiple times a day from the woods (not anyone’s property).
There’s nobody there from Nov - April so who the hell knows what goes on. Probably hunters camping in our house. LOL
Someone comes every winter and takes down dead trees for firewood. That’s the kind of trespassing we encourage. Haha
As for the deer, there aren’t many left. Some weird disease that made them bleed out and die wiped most of the herd out a few years ago.
Their numbers are recovering a little finally as of last summer.
We do. We have deer season, we also have “population control” events in our state and national parks.
Listen, I moved to the country, this is currently a me problem 
Absolutely works. We have a large 1 acre garden on our family land. The deer will lay waste to the garden if we didn’t do this. They come right up to the fence and eat squash, pumpkins that vine out underneath the fence but never anything inside the fence. They could easily jump over the fence but getting shocked once is enough they stay away.
We tried motion sensor sprinklers, motion lights/sirens before. It works the first couple times until the deer figure out nothing else happens and ignore them. The fence has worked the best by far.
Ohhh. This gives me hope! Product recommendations? I have options of plug in (not too far from the house) battery or solar.
I should add, The mesh kind of fence or the tow-three rope kind? Bonus points for pictures!
Talked to my husband-who was a hunter of deer, ducks and geese in season thru his 20’s, going out w/ grandfather/uncle/brothers. They ate what they killed-also big fishermen, owned boats, crabbing/■■■■■■■■■out on the Gulf coast. weekend! He enjoyed being on the water more. His penance: living in land-locked states for over 40 years..
My husband (ie Daniel Boone) due to his youthful existence in the woods/fields/water says for goodness sake, don’t put out feed for the deer outside your property because, like a salt lick, will soon have herds attracted to your area!
Says electrified fencing works but if don’t want to go to the expense, individually fence cherished trees w/ 10-12 foot fence because deer will eat the bark, kill the tree, eventually, because it make the trees more vulnerable to insects/disease. If have a garden, beware, they’ll eat almost any garden plant unless you plant bitter(not poisonous, due to dogs/cats/birds, etc.) herbs/plants outside/near the plot.
This will take some research-but is what his grandmother, who had a 2-acre all season garden Sure-shot grandpa brought down a few bucks, skinned ;em and left the horns, skin on the property and odor distracted deer for a couple of seasons-then never returned( in an area where it doesn’t snow) Gross to modern ears but if you live off the land, gotta eat!!
shrimping has now been removed from the no no list 
Can someone tell me why “shrimping” might have been auto removed?
Just an NYC frequent shrimp eater here, thanks to Amazon Fresh deliveries about once a week.
