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ssgshelton

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Is it legal to kill a deer on your own property out of season?

I planted a two acre test plot of clover/timothy/orchard grass about 4 months ago and the deer are absolutely destroying it eating the seedlings completely off at the ground. BTW I live in NC. If I can get rid of one or two maybe they will all half dozen leave.
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I don't know about NC, but here in MN it is not legal whether on own property or not. Needs to be the correct season with proper licenses. Good luck with the deer problem though!
 
In some states you can kill deer that are damaging crops. But a 2 acre food plot? That would be stretching the law just a little don't you think? And no, killing one or two won't discourage the others. They will only go tell their friends there is more room at the table.
 
In our state ,if deer are destroying your crops the game warden will give you a permit to kill them, don't know about yours. Check with your local officals.
 
Game warden can issue a permit to kill deer damaging crops.Orchards have much deer trouble.Wild turkeys have turned in to a pest here.
 
Hello ssgshelton,
What you need to fimd out is what onstitutes a farm where you live. In my neck of the woods is 5 acres and $500.00 yearly income. Then the deer, and any other varmits, are fair game year around.
Guido.
 
Don't know the answer to that but kind of on the same lines...A few years ago we had a 2 foot snow. I got the idea to put some grain out in the back yard for the deer just to see what would happen. The woods was across the road and around the house was a 20 acre tree/shrub nursery. So anyhow I put the grain out and on the first night we kept an eye out and saw 3 deer eating it. The next day I put some more grain out and that night we counted 22 deer. The third day put more grain out and that night we lost count after we hit 80 something deer. I don't know what they do...sniff butts, talk or something but the word spread real fast that there was food.
 
I'm not kidding, first of all. This worked.

This spring deer were eating my walnut and butternut seedlings at a great rate. A retired game warden suggested I spray the seedlings with blood. Let's see: 10,000 trees at 60c each, for two weeks of effective deterrence? Don't think so.

But the blood idea caused me to bring home the fish heads and entrails after a day on the lake. I dumped them around the worst-affected trees, noticed some success, and kept the dumping up for the rest of the summer. No more deer damage.

Seems coyotes love fish heads, and they came regularly for the handouts. Everybody knows coyotes are urine-producing machines and deer hate the smell. The deer left.

One coyote, Emily, the worst-looking, broken-tailed, mangy critter you could imagine, has remained among my trees, living well on mice and apples from the orchard.
 

I think you could probably get a permit, a test plot is farming like any other seems to me, BUT it will be quicker and more successful to run a strand of electric fence wire around the plot about waist high. They wiil probably tear it down the first night or two. If you don't have power there get a battery operated fence charger.
Electric fence is what I use for my garden. I wouldn't be above using the 3 S system but it's not necessary as well as being time consuming.

KEH
 
I'm not kidding, first of all. This worked.

This spring deer were eating my walnut and butternut seedlings at a great rate. A retired game warden suggested I spray the seedlings with blood. Let's see: 10,000 trees at 60c each, for two weeks of effective deterrence? Don't think so.

But the blood idea caused me to bring home the fish heads and entrails after a day on the lake. I dumped them around the worst-affected trees, noticed some success, and kept the dumping up for the rest of the summer. No more deer damage.

Seems coyotes love fish heads, and they came regularly for the handouts. Everybody knows coyotes are urine-producing machines and deer hate the smell. The deer left.

One coyote, Emily, the worst-looking, broken-tailed, mangy critter you could imagine, has remained among my trees, living well on mice and apples from the orchard.
 
Blood meal.... Can probably get some from a local butchering operation, or blood meal is sold as a fertilizer for roses. I used it to protect beans in the garden. Sprinkle liberally every few days. Like salt on your mashed potatoes.
 
A guy I work with has a brother that owns a medium size farm, about 200 acres. This fella got a permit to shoot deer that eat his feed corn and he shoots the deer from a combine, rifle in the cab of a combine. He opens the door of the combine while its picking corn and he plinks them off.
I would call a DNR office and tell them your problem.
 
Thanks for the replies. I have a small 30 acre farm with cattle and goats. My pastures are fenced woven wire and haven't seen any deer in there but in some of my smaller hayfields I don't have a fence. The test plot I was working on was to see how well the clover timothy would grow in my area. I plan on putting in another 20 acres or so at another place I lease several miles away. I have a farm number and tax exept so I am officially a farm by NC standards.
Thanks
 
Here in New York, it's only legal if you contact the conservation department and they issue you a "nuisance permit." They give me several every year for turkeys and deer. Funny thing is, they are only allowed to be used when hunting season is NOT open. If open, a hunting license is required - even if in my back yard.
 
Electric fence. Yeah, they will break the wire for a few nights but after 3-4 nightes they will get tired of getting hit.
 
Here is a link to the NC law. I live in Bladen County and much of our land is along the Cape Fear river. We have over 40 deer per square mile here and our county is about 70 percent forest so we have a terrible time with them. I have tried human hair, ammonia, etc... but none of those tricks work very long. Electric fences won't stop them either. They will go right through them. A lot of guys around here shoot them out of fields but there are so many it's hard to put a dent in them.

http://www.ncwildlife.org/Regs/Regs_Wildlife_Depredation.htm
 
If you plant 10 times as many acres of that good grass I am thinking you will attract 10 times as many deer.
 
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