Re: Deer
In a message dated 08/10/00 22:05:02 GMT Daylight Time, rebkin@flashcom.net
writes:
> Subj: Re: Deer
> Date: 08/10/00 22:05:02 GMT Daylight Time
> From: rebkin@flashcom.net (Rebecca Steward)
> Sender: owner-pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Reply-to: pumpkins@mallorn.com
> To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>
> On Sun, 08 October 2000, Lilla Porter wrote:
>
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas on how to keep deer away from gardens?Would
> sure
> > appreciate some new ideas.
> > Regards Lilla
> > Dear Lilla,
> I responded a couple of months back to this request & am told it really
> works, but I toured a rose garden & the lady of the home used human hair
> balled up in short sections of nylon hose & tied these to her prize winning
> rose bushes & she swore this deterred the deer. (The hair was collected at
> her local beauty shop)It didn't look too obvious either, but if your garden
> was fenced you might try hanging these "hair balls", (pardon the pun) on
the
> fence around your prized plantings-Good Luck! Rebkin Martinez, CA
DEAR (no pun intended here either) LILLA
When i worked at a Golf Course we had problems with Deer breaking through the
Deer fencing and getting back on the Course after they had been driven out.
When the Golf Club held their first European Tour Tournament it was essential
to make extra special efforts in order to keep the Deer off of the Course. I
had seen somewhere in a magazine, several years previous, that by placing BIG
CAT Dung and/or urine, the former easier to collect, around or in an area
where Deer are to be excluded the Deer would not venture into that area.
The Head Greenkeeper thought i was joking but i insisted that it was worth a
try and maybe he should give the local Zoo a call and try and get some Lion,
Tiger, Leopard etc Dung/Urine. Eventually he gave in and went off to the Zoo
and returned with a plastic bag containing these lumps of Tiger Dung with
some Urine in there for good measure. Unfortunately he had not tied the top
of the bag closed to seal it and he complained for hours about the stench of
this Dung in his nice clean new 4X4. Someone, not me i must add, was summoned
to go around the Golf Course and smear the Dung/Urine around the Golf
Green's,Tee's and any other sensitive parts of the Golf Course that the Deer
were to be discouraged.
GUESS WHAT.......IT WORKED
BEST WISHES
MIKE (LION DUNG) TURNER
ENGLAND
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