Strange..........

Goose · Nov 15, 2017

I shot a buck this morning, and when I walked up to him, I realized he had a bunch of chicken wire wrapped around one antler, with a long tail end dragging.

I have no idea how long it might have been there. Looks like he must have hooked into the wire at a chicken coop and then fought it till he pulled loose.

ohiojim · Nov 15, 2017

surprising you don't find more laying around dead the way they rub there antlers on everything,.......nice buck

PaGlenn · Nov 15, 2017

Hook up a battery charger to the barbwire and see if his nose lights. Might be Rudolf !

ss55 · Nov 15, 2017

Chicken wire is also used to keep rabbits out of gardens.

Dave H (MI) · Nov 15, 2017

A neighbor found a 10 pt buck in his woods last winter, dead from a bullet in the gut. It had about eight feet of garden fencing wrapped up in its antlers. By coincidence I had about the same amount of fence missing from around one of my young trees. He had it mounted and left a bit of the wire on the antlers. This year I did not get around to wiring the trees. Eight of them damaged before I could get out there. Two of these are obliterated...won't recover. A couple had minor scrapes. The rest will be badly scarred and will have a year or two recovering but will live. Deer do a LOT of damage on my place. I have a loading dock on the east end of my equipment shed. A deer climbed up onto the dock and ate the geraniums in a pot by the door. Terrible nuisance.

Ivan in Mich · Nov 15, 2017

Now you know who has been stealing the eggs

JL Ray · Nov 15, 2017

I've had good luck keep the deer off my trees by just putting two post by each tree. one on each side. no wire. no fence.

Goose · Nov 15, 2017

A neighbor gal a quarter of a mile down the road raises chickens. After she's home from work this evening, I'll have to call her and ask her if she's had a chicken coop torn up lately.

Dave H (MI) · Nov 15, 2017

That is my normal way of doing it. Obviously I cannot afford to fence off every tree on the place. Two stakes will not work for long. I had to add a stake to each tree this year. Two of the eight damaged were double staked. Deer do NOT like metal on the antlers. Three seems to be working so far this year but time will tell. The trees with fencing are those that the deer also feed on. So far this is mostly just willows. They are like candy to deer. Two fences have been torn off of willows in the past year and the only one I ever found is the one the neighbor has.

cuby · Nov 15, 2017

I am haveing problems with deer here{SW central Iowa}too, there needs to be a much longer hunting season to thin these things out or cosevation people and DNR people need to replace trees. They wont rubb on a old dead evergreen which I have in the same area.

db4600 · Nov 15, 2017

We've all seen deer bound over something like a fence or brush line. They're nimble things. One of the last years Pa was farming we found the carcass of a young buck wrapped in a flimsy 3 wire fence between 2nd and 3rd cutting alfalfa. He got a rear leg caught and when he went over the wires spun into a cinch trap. It seemed odd that he could not free himself, but that was where he met his doom.

Brown Swiss · Nov 15, 2017

Many ditches around that people throw there junk into? We have them here along side the back roads people will throw there junk down over an embankment cause the it must be funner then a dumpster!

Keith Molden · Nov 15, 2017

Around this area the Pot raisers put chicken wire around their plants so it could be from that and the poor old chicken gets the blame LOL

Steve@Advance · Nov 15, 2017

There was a story in todays paper about a blue heron that's been seen for a couple months now with a plastic shopping bag caught on it's beak.

Several have been trying to catch it but failed. He hasn't been seen since the 1st, fearing the worst.

RBoots · Nov 15, 2017

No Brown Swiss, it isn't the "fun" factor. It's the "free" factor, dumpsters cost money, and as of yet, the govt does not pay for trash service for it's recipients. Part of my job is cleaning it back out of the ditches.

RBoots · Nov 15, 2017

Looks like it's been riding around up there for a while! Nice deer!

Brown Swiss · Nov 15, 2017

I will have to post some pics of the ditches around here, what goes in your not going to go get!

IaLeo · Nov 15, 2017

I have not had the blankety-blank bucks ruin any of my young trees since placing three steel fence posts around them. The buck was frustrated this year and mangled a 2 foot high bush, but I think it will recover.
They ruined and set back a White Pine and Japanese Walnut by 5 years. Those were not "posted" lol Leo

Bob H from Missouri · Nov 16, 2017

Best thing I have done is drive two steel posts and tie three strands of nylon rope between them. Not tight, just hanging a little loose so the tree can still grow without wrapping around them. Hard for a deer to rub when he can't move those antlers up and down the trunk. Been working for me for 15 years and saved every tree.

Bob

Married2Allis · Nov 16, 2017

Nice rack. I saw a buck like that try to run straight through a chain link fence once. The fence won but was bent all to heck. Buck wallowed around and finally got loose.

Goose · Nov 16, 2017

For trees other than evergreen, I've taken black plastic corrugated drain tile, either 4" or 6", cut it to the right length from the ground to just below the branches, split it lengthwise, and put it around the trunk. Seems to work.

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