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RE: Deer
- To: permaculture <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: RE: Deer
- From: Zeno Swijtink <swijtink@sonoma.edu>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 07:23:06 -0700
- In-reply-to: <LYRIS-123509-48726-2001.06.15-04.07.12--swijtink#sonoma.edu@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Newsgroups: permaculture
- References: <LYRIS-123509-48726-2001.06.15-04.07.12--swijtink#sonoma.edu@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Does anyone have experience with this approach that has at least
anecdotal success in NW California:
A fence of irregular, uneven height (4 ft) made of narrow small
planks of random length placed vertically side-by-side?
It seems to be visually confusing to deer.
Cheers, Zeno
At 10:11 AM +0200 6/15/01, Xavier Dequaire wrote:
>My solution is, here in Norway:
>we have doe deer, which can come through an opening 18 cm wide, 60
>cm high, and pass a 2 m high obstacle.
>
>I tried too the smell solutions, it does not work long term, and
>those strange smells in the garden are not so pleasant.
>
>I observed that the deers that walk down the road walked up in the
>garden if the low gate was open, but walked to the neighbour when it
>was closed. The animal that could jump over prefered probably the
>most open visual route.
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