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As someone who has been in the fence business for almost 40 years, I can tell you with absolute certainty, deer can jump over a 6' tall fence like it is not even there.
I have personally witnessed this on several occasions.
They generally prefer not to enter an enclosure, but like I said, I have seen it.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coNs1ehoO-o
"Deer Fence" is typically a 10' tall mesh fence. It is not cheap and they sell a metric shit ton of the stuff on Marthas Vineyard and Nantucket, but pretty much anywhere that rich people don't want deer eating their shrubbery. Lots of deer fence in Dover, Sherborn, Newton etc.I knew a guy who started a venison farm in Maine years back.
All was fine until the snow came and turned a 6 foot fence into a step over the top rail.
I know. It didn’t stop us from laughing for a long time at the shop."Deer Fence" is typically a 10' tall mesh fence. It is not cheap and they sell a metric shit ton of the stuff on Marthas Vineyard and Nantucket, but pretty much anywhere that rich people don't want deer eating their shrubbery. Lots of deer fence in Dover, Sherborn, Newton etc.
They have solutions.
They do deer calls once in a while, hunters that took a class set up in parks at night and do head shots.
But I couldn't find a lot of info about it, like if they only do it in certain areas, or if they have to vote on it, how often they do it...
I'd rather feed them the wilted produce on the shelves at the grocery storeWe could feed all the illegal immigrants with all that Venison. Send them to Livonia!!!
I thought the solution was to give the immigrants land and teach them how to hunt?We could feed all the illegal immigrants with all that Venison. Send them to Livonia!!!
Aw, c'mon! You're in northern Maine. No just popping off a few shots and filling your freezer? The neighbors would probably even help!A huge problem here but I want the birds. The deer are such a PITA but the electric fence keeps them out of my garden.
As someone who has been in the fence business for almost 40 years, I can tell you with absolute certainty, deer can jump over a 6' tall fence like it is not even there.
I have personally witnessed this on several occasions.
They generally prefer not to enter an enclosure, but like I said, I have seen it.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coNs1ehoO-o
As someone who has been in the fence business for almost 40 years, I can tell you with absolute certainty, deer can jump over a 6' tall fence like it is not even there.
I have personally witnessed this on several occasions.
They generally prefer not to enter an enclosure, but like I said, I have seen it.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coNs1ehoO-o
You hit the nail on the head. It's about a food source.Aside from trying to get away from a predator why would they want to?
So much effort and nothing to eat on the other side.
One would suspect that the same people who are complaining of too many deer in the area, are the same ones that are feeding them.
And think hunting is cruel.And complaining about Lyme disease.
No.You hit the nail on the head. It's about a food source.
Plant an apple tree and those deer will jump in.
You hit the nail on the head. It's about a food source.
Plant an apple tree and those deer will jump in.
Well, the deer are in backyards, not the woods, I guess.In MI. That state has a rep for having more hunters per square mile than any other state in the country. Over half a million gun hunters hit the woods annually. Kind of crazy to think they could have a population problem.
Seems to me like they have a solution. I would be willing to wager they would have a line of hunters waiting to solve that issue for them if they would grant them the required access.
Most of the time....these aren't "hunters". They are sharpshooter type guys that shoot over a baited area, hired by a town/city/state under a commercial deer management program.They have solutions.
They do deer calls once in a while, hunters that took a class set up in parks at night and do head shots.
But I couldn't find a lot of info about it, like if they only do it in certain areas, or if they have to vote on it, how often they do it...
but the coyotes find it easier to eat the neighborhood cats and dogs than chase down a deer.Isn't 'too many deer' the reason we have an influx of coyotes everywhere?
I used to have a permit from the airport in Westfield to manage wildlife when it was a problem. The permit specified that the animals taken would be destroyed (burial, landfill or incineration) or donated to a science program. Even though everyone tried to convince me that grilling counted as incinerating, I wasn't going to risk it so we just buried the deer, geese and coyotes. The permits really try to make it killing instead of hunting.Most of the time....these aren't "hunters". They are sharpshooter type guys that shoot over a baited area, hired by a town/city/state under a commercial deer management program.
Hunters can't legally hunt at night and to my knowledge no fish and wildlife in any state has relaxed restrictions on deer to for regular hunters to do that.
White Buffalo is one such outfit that towns in CT used to hire, and they used to do it fairly quietly and not tell people about it. One reason why the deer population really dropped in CT, they opened up all sorts of state land....and were letting White Buffalo cull as well at night, without telling many people about it. Towns like Redding, Ridgefield, etc.
White Buffalo would throw the deer in the dump after, they don't use them unless town specifies it, and if there isn't a program that they can take them to a place and just dump them off ungutted......they won't do it. In CT, at the time, there wasn't. They landfilled them.
Even then I'm sure they charge more for a deer that is killed and has to be brought to a butcher, probably at least 200 a deer more, so most towns aren't gonna want to pay the extra.
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Full attack mode yesterday morning. Just left the water hole from the artisan well overflow on the way to eat dropped birdseed under the feeder tubes.
Yup.......until they have a full bowhunting program allowed that lets people take care of business without neighbors crying about it and bugging the hunters.We're all, like, "well, durrrrr, just shoot em."
Did you look up Livonia on Google Maps? It's like trying to shoot coyotes on Nahant. LOL
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Livonia is a cube that is "thickly settled" in about 90% of it. They're F'd.
Look at the map. Any missed shots, excess shots, or gunshot noise can just be blamed on the Hyatt Place, Detroit or Holiday Inn, Detroit.We're all, like, "well, durrrrr, just shoot em."
Did you look up Livonia on Google Maps? It's like trying to shoot coyotes on Nahant. LOL
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Livonia is a cube that is "thickly settled" in about 90% of it. They're F'd.
LOL In Mandarin Chinese pinyin "wo" really is "me"I read the Wo is me article, but nothing is mentioned about the circumstances that caused this problem. I know nothing of the area.
Should have starved her.LOL In Mandarin Chinese pinyin "wo" really is "me"
Ipswich, MA was getting overpopulated with deer and there was going to be a special hunt to thin the deer in the area but some asshat named Dorothy Checci O'Brien led protests so it was called off. The deer starved, many people got lyme, deer were desperate and going into yards and gardens after food. The woman later said essentially she didn't care that the deer suffered, only that people didn't kill them. What a piece of work.