Re: CULT: Deer deterrents

> 
> We have a thriving deer population here in the MO Ozarks where I live,
> but fortunately we also have an enlightened Conservation Department
> and general populace that understands the dynamics of wild populations
> and what is necessary to sustain them. I find deer tracks in my yard
> all the time where they have been feeding at night and see them on a
> daily basis, but they do little damage. They nip a shrub or such now
> and then to get an exotic taste, but there is plenty of natural food
> around to sustain them, so they don't really damage crops or
> ornamental plantings much.

> 
> Meanwhile, you gotta problem.....good luck!
> Bill Wells
> 

  I haven't responded to a deer thread in a long time, but . . .

  I live at the entrance to a state park where there is a substantial 
forest and a lake.  Numerous deer prowl this area and I was 
occasionally bothered by deer munching on tulips and azaleas, 
sometimes mowing the azaleas to the ground.  Moth balls hung in 
old socks stopped that.

  For the last two years now I have hardly seen a deer in my yard.  
Why? The park manager has put up some feeding troughs where 
the deer are fed corn during the winter when the grass is dead.  All
the deer go down there to eat and leave my plants alone.  We have 
seen upwards to twenty deer feeding at a time.  When the 
management first started feeding the deer, I was afraid that we 
would be overrun with them, but as I said above, I hardly see any 
deer up this way anymore, thanks to the feeding troughs.

Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8



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