Keeping deer out of corn patch

Fergienewbee · Jun 24, 2008

Does anyone have a method to keep deer out of the corn? It's just a food plot, but it will be gone before it ever makes an ear the way they're going. I spread soap shavings and moth balls. I think it just encouraged them. A flashlight at night and lead injections might be noticed by the neighbors.

Larry in Michigan

Jim in Ma. · Jun 24, 2008

22 Mag. = Freezer !!!

Blueclawz · Jun 24, 2008

Wire it up..hang some cans with rocks inside. Pray you make it until hunting season....my food plots get ravaged around here but I guess thats kind of the point. It beats them tearing up crops...another trick would be to double fence it but that could end up being more trouble then its worth. Good luck.
Lead injections never hurt either...

old · Jun 24, 2008

One way is human hair . Get it from a beauty parlor etc. Another way is hang some old CDs from trees etc. They will throw shadows and light beams all over that deer do not like. And or a propane canon which sounds like a gun going off
Hobby farm

Anonymous-0 · Jun 24, 2008

There is a deer repellant from Cabela's or Bass Pro shops . Have not tried it yet , but it's made for food plots . The biggest problem i had was turkeys following the planter ,,dug up most of the corn and bean seed . The turnips and sorgum seemed to last until real late in the year,maybe after all the "choice stuff " was gone,,,but it held deer into the winter real good

Anonymous-0 · Jun 24, 2008

I tried the soap thing,even spread pee around the edges.No luck. We set some stakes around the patch, strung thin nylon cord real tight, hung pie plates all around ( makes more noise if 2 or 3 are hooked together) So far after a week no deer problems. Our deer always come out after dark

51Pony · Jun 24, 2008

I've heard the same thing with human hair that old says, but never tried it.

I've heard that the apple orchards around here use this trick, but haven't tried it either. Put up a fencer wire about 36" high. Paint strips of tin foil with peanut butter and lay them over the wire. Deer are smart enough to leave a regular fencer wire alone, but they can resist the smell of the peanut butter. Then they lick it and that gets them out of the corn. If you put another wire down low, you can keep the skunks and raccoons out too.

jlmtractor · Jun 24, 2008

hey old that is the same thing my grandfather always tells me to keep deer out the garden

Bill(Wis) · Jun 24, 2008

Try onions.

MarkB_MI · Jun 24, 2008

A fence is the only thing that will keep deer out of your corn. My wife tried every kind of repellent you can buy. Human hair? She's a hairdresser, so she had access to plenty of that. Only the fence stopped them.

You can't just put up any ole fence. We started with a five foot tall woven wire fence. That kept them out the first year, but the next summer they were bedding down in the garden to sleep. I had figured that they would jump the fence, so when I built it I left the corner posts about eight feet tall. I ran two strands of 50 lb test monofilament between the corner posts. The mono did the trick. For some reason, deer will not try to jump over or through the fishing line.

Leland · Jun 24, 2008

Blood meal I hear might work anybody else ever hear of that ?????

jjamna · Jun 24, 2008

Best thing I have found is a 30-30 Winchester.
I am not being a smart a$$ I am telling the truth. 3 or 4 years ago the deer were so bad I got maybe 10 to 15 tomatoes off of 36 tomatoe plants. I started hunting them again that year and now they are scared of humans again. Last two years I have had the best sweet corn patches I have ever had. If the deer are not afraid of humans you can put all that stuff you want to out and it won't make any difference.
If you don't hunt let someone who does come in and hunt them.
You have to get them afraid of humans before anything will work.

Rusty wheel · Jun 24, 2008

I heard about a guy who was having problems with deer in his garden. He went to the local zoo and got some lion manure. He spread it around the outside of the garden and when the deer got a whiff of the stuff they left the country. Just something I heard, don't know if it worked. rw

Coltond202 · Jun 24, 2008

brilliant

Anonymous-0 · Jun 25, 2008

I totally agree about the gun being the only fix for too many deer. I planted some plots of sunflowers this year for the pheasants in the winter and the deer have eaten almost all of them. Also planted some corn and they have butchered that too. We have a wheat field right in front of it and they are in that every night eating too. I absolutely hate deer with a passion. Around here in mid Michigan there are deer out in everybodies fields every night just eating and breeding. I am going to call the DNR and get a block permit and break out the 30-06 and start dropping them. I think of deer about the same as I would a fly. The management of them around here the last ten years has been very nnalert poor if you ask me. With commodity prices where they are and input costs and fuel costs the state of Michigan is going to have to be more responsible about recognizing this overbreeding herd of food eaters walking around all over. It wouldn't break my heart if the whitetail was on the endangered species list!

ericlb · Jun 25, 2008

they have problem with deer in town near where i live,[ the tourists feed them] and the deer have been hanging out in the town, ive heard that stringing fishing line on t posts works as the deer hit it, and cant see it and dont know what is happening and go elsewere, we dont have a problem out here in the country i thinks its because our 2 farm dogs love to chase them off, i think the zoo idea may work, get the droppings from natural predators [ lions wolves coyotes ect] and spred some around the corn

teddy52food · Jun 25, 2008

What kind of deer do you have there? Minnesota whitetails breed in November, not now.

dhermesc · Jun 25, 2008

A big happy Lab that loves to run. Keeps them out and gives him plenty of exercise.

Rootsy · Jun 25, 2008

Deer have been coming through my garden regularly. They haven't been eating anything yet but last year they decimated my sunflowers. Counted 11 deer last night out back the house eating beans and what was missed when picking up alfalfa from the last cutting.

I had to make chicken wire cages for my tomato plants earlier this spring as a big fat woodchuck (now deceased) and the rabbits were loving them. Between that and a combination of pepper spray on the leaves they have been left alone.

As far as fences are concerned... it best be nearly 10 feet or they'll just clear it in a single bound...

I am being proactive with the live traps and the 22 on the raccoon population before they discover the sweet corn... have a good start thus far...

Neighbor and I are looking into the block permits before the corn gets too tall... Lot of hunters here ALL fall and they take a few deer out but not nearly enough. I figure the 280 Remington should take care of what they missed...

Roy in georgia · Jun 25, 2008

someone dropped a lab mix off (skin and bones) he is very scared but I feed him near my garden and so far my deer problems have went away they will sneak back in at some point but that stray is working for his food and don't know.wish he would let me close enough to remove the blanket that they tied around his neck maybe he will trust me soon

Anonymous-0 · Jun 27, 2008

Our neighbor keeps the deer out by putting an electric fence around, and then every 10-20 ft putting a strip of aluminum foil on it with some peanut butter. they lick that once, and they don't come back!

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