Animal repellents. Do they work ?

[PILOON]

Lifeboy is much easier to get than Tiger poo. I'll try that. Thanks.

I erred as she actually uses the green soap bars, Irish mist or something like that.

 

[oosik]

I've tried many things. Some work for a while - others never do work. Very aromatic soaps, certain types of plants, human urine, human hair, bottled snake oils of various types, aluminum foil and pie pans. After a while the wildlife become use to even the most vile concoctions.

Now - tiger poo - I've never tried. No tigers in this area.

 

[RSKY]

I planted a rose bush two weeks ago and the deer are it four days later. Came back and pulled it out of the ground. I planted another one in same hole today and tried a formula I found on YouTube. One quart water with an egg yoke and on tablespoon of baking soda. Put it in a spray bottle and spray it on every two weeks or after a rain. Supposed to repel deer after they take one bite.

We will see.

I will post results, when I have some.

Also put game cam up to make sure it was deer.

RSKY

Well.....I have the results. It did NOT work. Rose chewed off nearly to the ground this morning and the one stem with a pretty flower on it broke off. Game camera didn't pick up anything. Was expecting a deer and guess I had it pointed too high. Gonna set it up again tonight with my battery powered electric fence around it. Bet it was a rabbit. We have seen several in our yard recently. As a matter of fact the guy across the street says that when his wife leaves for work at 4:30/5:00 she sees every kind of wildlife that resides in our area in my front yard. That is why I thought it was a deer.

Rabbit stew anyone?

RSKY

 

[2LaneCruzer]

The deer have become pests in the last couple of years (we have lived here since 1972). They are eating my tomatoes and peppers. I mentioned this to my daughter, who has had deer problems for about 10 years or so. She said they use "Liquid Fence" and it keeps them from eating her flowers and shrubs. She said it works well; they were eating her rosebushes down to nubs...supposedly smells like coyote urine. I will definitely try it; they have eaten several of my tomatoes to the point I doubt they will recover. Here's a link where they compare it to another product:

Compare Deer Off(R) to Liquid Fence(R) Animal Repellent | Havahart US

 

[ohmyback]

Retired grounds keeper for the KC Royals swears by Deer Scram. They reformulate every couple of years so the deer do not get used to the smell. It smells of rotting deer so it deters them.

 

[dan ny escarpment]

We have tried many, liquid fence will work if applied often and after rain, but in the winter time in NE Ohio, they will destroy arborvitae and others so we have to fence those off with 6' wire fence placed far enough away they cant reach the branches, but close enough they wont jump over. A bunch of surrounding cities here finally approved bow hunting which should help, but the population here has skyrocketed over the past 20 years. This one was right behind the house last summer.

 

[mapper]

I am about to try a deer repellent recipe that uses putrified eggs, blood meal and pepper sauce. Just got home from COSTCO with five dozen eggs and a COSTCO size bottle of Tabasco sauce. Mix, let sit for a while, run through an old blender then a sieve to take out the chunks and apply with a hose end sprayer. I used a commercial version of this last summer and it worked well, however at $20 a gallon (ready to use) I can't afford to cover much area with it. I understand that the purified eggs smell like a dead animal to them so they think there is a bad azz predator around and they look elsewhere for food.
I will let you know how this works out.