Buck Deer problem

cuby · Nov 1, 2015

Damn thing is rubbing on my newly planted trees. He wont touch the large dead trees.

Anyone else haveing this problem?

What can be done to keep them away?

I have a dog but he likes to sleep nights just like me.

I have heard of Dial soap around them,so have put some there this morning. Will see if

that is just a myth.

Determined · Nov 1, 2015

So what kind of trees would these be?
Need to plant me some of them.

WAYNE-N-TX · Nov 1, 2015

Several years ago I planted 147 chestnut trees. They didn't make it three years, the 4 I have now come up from the roots. They worked on those, but they didn't die. So right now I have 4 chestnut trees, 10 years old and you can reach the tops. So I have no way to solve the problem.

dr sportster · Nov 1, 2015

I use electrical tape . I have some pretty wide tapes because I'm a high voltage splicer. Tape will start to squeeze the tree as it grows. I also have a paper wrap on one and it seems they don't rub it. You can also hang metal objects that will hit the antlers and stop them. But there is no deer proof shrub they won't try to eat. Even real deer resistant trees like Cypress are getting rubbed if not eaten.

Greg1959 · Nov 1, 2015

4" black PVC plastic drain pipe (the flexible cheap kind). Cut a split lengthwise and open tile around tree trunk. It will protect the tree and still allow it to grow.

JD Seller · Nov 1, 2015

Well the best is tall fencing. Next would repellants. There are several products that you spray the area you do not want deer in and it is supposed top keep them away. I have seen human hair used too. It works some times. The trouble with any type of repellant is that you have to update/replace it every so often or it quits working.

The deer and coyotes are major problems in many parts of the country. It amazes me the number of guys that plant food plots for the walking "rats". They are fat around here now they sure do not need more feed around here. If the state "owns" the wild life then I think farmers should be "paid" for feeding the state's animals.

Mike Groom · Nov 1, 2015

The only tree I know of that they don't rub is a blue spruce,I'm sure there are some more,we put a cage around each of our walnut trees and they left them alone,after they were bigger they didn't bother them.

Greg1959 · Nov 1, 2015

Like this...

Traditional Farmer · Nov 1, 2015

Deer burgers win/win solution

jimlll · Nov 1, 2015

I drive a steel fence post close to the tree and tie the tree to the post. It seems to prevent the deer from rubbing.

Billy NY · Nov 1, 2015

Collars like the corrugated pipe shown below and liquid fence. Christmas tree growers have the same problem on a larger scale. You could also use fishing line, a bucket with cans stage on it so when he hits the line, the cans rattle.

They make work for you, I keep my one garden fenced in from them, and you have to spray any flowers with liquid fence to discourage them. It does work well, they will stay away for awhile, you just need to re-spray in a timely fashion. Only time they get me is when I forget or did not have time to spray something.

I forget why bucks rub trees and the ground, but they can girdle some trees in no time, some just one side as I notice here. In the winter they will girdle all the staghorn sumac trees they can get to, they have killed every last one of the mature ones I have nearby.

Farmall 656 · Nov 1, 2015

cuby,

I have had success with original Irish Spring soap. Used a vegetable peeler to made peels, placed the peels inside women's nylons, and tie to tree branches. I have also heard that you can use hair from a barber shop/beauty shop inside nylons. Otherwise, I have plastic tree tubes/drain tile around taller trees. Good luck!! Deer sausage is tasty too!!

TimnVa · Nov 1, 2015

I have a 360 ft. row of Leyland Cypress and they will usually hit 4 or 5 of them each year. Last year I drove T post about 10 ft out from them every 50 ft and hung pie pans on them with string so they would swing in the wind and hit on the post. They didn't hit a one so I did it again this year, so far so good. I also put up 2 scarecrows, one about 60 ft from each end.

da.bees · Nov 1, 2015

JD Seller said "It amazes me the number of guys that plant food plots for the walking "rats". They are fat around here now they sure do not need more feed around here."

Close to if not 100% of time that is done to lure as many deer as possible from a limited area into gun range for multiple hunters. They are reduceing the population while some others whine and complain about the whole situation instaed of doing something "PERMINATE" about the walking rats. Go to the polls to put practical thinking people in office like we do in Texas. If deer are damaging a crop in Texas,you can get a permit allowing you to kill the whole bunch. Scoped rifles, 12 guages loaded with 00 and spotlights are highly effective. Never seen one with a hole blown in him return and do damage yet.

Donald Lehman · Nov 1, 2015

This is natural behavior for a buck this time of year. He's rubbing the velvet off the antlers, announcing his presence to other bucks, claiming his territory and strengthening his neck muscles for the coming rut. They never use dead trees for rubs. You will more than likely have to wrap your trees with some kind of protection and you need to do it immediately, or kill the buck. I would suggest next year doing this to any tree you want protected about 3 weeks earlier than this next year. The size of the tree the deer uses for his rubs is a fair indication of the size of the buck. Generally, the more damage the deer does, and the bigger the tree, the bigger the buck. Don't think I've ever seen a tree bigger than about 8 inches being used. A moose on the other hand, will take on trees much larger and tear into them from about 3 feet off the ground to six feet high.

Most hunters can't afford large tracts of land and use food plots to make their property as attractive as possible to deer. The average doe's territory is a square mile. When you only own 20 acres of the 640, your odds of success are pretty low without a food plot, or some heavy swamp/cover for a bedding area. My experience with food plots around this area is that they take pressure off farm crops to some extent. It also raises the success rates a bit and over a few years time lowers the population by a good number.

Donald Lehman · Nov 1, 2015

They make the scrapes to attract does for breeding purposes. It's a lot more complicated than that, but the long version got auto-censored.

Kent Petersen · Nov 1, 2015

Don"t believe that i have a blue that was rued this fall i put 3 steel post around trees that i want to save an run chicken wire around, top of wire about 5FT high of the ground

David G · Nov 1, 2015

I do what Greg1959 does.

mj · Nov 1, 2015

Mountain lion urine sprinkled around will work - the Denver zoo used to sell it by the gallon. :shock:

Old Scovy · Nov 1, 2015

I have a life long friend. He aint very smart. He was 27 years old in the 5th. grade LOL But he grows one heck of a garden along with fruit trees, He goes into town to the Barber Shop and collects the hair off the floor and put's it in a vegetable bag and ties it to the trees and puts some around the garden. Says the deer don't bother him. It sounds far fetched to me. But he says it is true ???

Steve A W · Nov 1, 2015

Pee on the trees.
Just don't get caught peeing in public.

donjr · Nov 1, 2015

Go to a few yard sales or auctions and buy some old CDs or DVDs. Then, suspend them about four feet or so off the ground by monofilament fishing line, so that they will twist and turn in the breeze. They'll reflect the slightest amount of light and are very unnervong to deer, so they leave the area. It really spooks them....

MT RON · Nov 1, 2015

Have trouble with the stinking white tail,not rubbing but eating my trees,apple and Japanese maple.

cuby · Nov 2, 2015

These are ausrian pine and the fast growing willows.

sotxbill · Nov 2, 2015

(quoted from post at 18:57:47 11/01/15)
Mountain lion urine sprinkled around will work - the Denver zoo used to sell it by the gallon. :shock:

I would hate to be the guy that has to collect that....

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