Gordon Gould
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We have a new guy poking around
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Time to Fence the Veggie Garden
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Get a 410 shot gun and load it with buck shot and take that thing down. I'm up to around 30 here since I started shooting them. Big groups no longer come around. They die if they do.
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Nice pic. Gordon seldom I get to see a fawn around here. Plenty of large ones so I have an elec. fence set up around the garden seems to have worked for the last few yrs.
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Gordon Gould
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That's what we use too - an electric fence. We only see deer in the yard once in a while. They aren't really a problem. I see them in the woods pretty often so they are around and they will get the garden if I don't fence it. I kind of enjoyed seeing that fawn.
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I don't bother as my 'next door neighbour' is a State Forest = a constant supply of wallabies, padimelons, brush-tail possums and an odd bandicoot.
All are nocturnal and I refer to them as my "State Forest Lawn Maintenance Service". Because of them I've only mowed around the house maybe 3 times in a year.
Any new plants, they eat. If I tried to eradicate them a new mob would only move in to take their place.
All are nocturnal and I refer to them as my "State Forest Lawn Maintenance Service". Because of them I've only mowed around the house maybe 3 times in a year.
Any new plants, they eat. If I tried to eradicate them a new mob would only move in to take their place.
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I have several hundred dollars worth of fencing protecting $30 worth of vegetables.... 
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I've got a "herd" ( a buck in velvet and three does) that move about. Deep tracks in the asparagus bed.
I told my wife "If the garden goes one night, we are packing bags and heading out on a motorbike trip." ;-)
I told my wife "If the garden goes one night, we are packing bags and heading out on a motorbike trip." ;-)
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Do you shoot the baby deer only in season, or all year long?
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If he's got a nuisance deer permit, its open season on all of them.
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I have several hundred dollars worth of fencing protecting $30 worth of vegetables....
Ha ha! Sounds about like us!