Noise maker on a timer

J F · Mar 21, 2013

/pine said:
On the other hand the deer may think it's a "dinner" bell...

A lot of game animals learn to relate the sound of an automatic feeder and come running when they hear it...

Crap, deer coming from three counties over to eat your garden. :laughing:

Clint S · Mar 21, 2013

We had a propane powered noise maker that would crack about as loud as a shot gun. There was a timer on it you could set at 15 minutes to 1hour apart. Problem is after a week or so the deer would barely look up as it went off. They get used to it.

M4 Pest Control Cannon -- Single Detonation - GEMPLER'S

It was very similar to this

Chain Bender · Mar 21, 2013

I was thinking about the propane noise maker, but I'm sure one of the neighbors would call the game warden and tell them someone is night hunting and I'd have to explain it over and over again. I'd like to get something that makes a whooshing sound like a doe does when she busts you. I have 4 garden plots from 1/4 acre to about 3/4 acres. That would take an awful lot of motion sensors to cover. I've got 3 rools of quality alumium fence wire. I think each roll is 12000 feet and I can get a battery powered charger for less than $100. But then I've got to buy hangers to nail to 2X2's or posts to hang it on. Either way will be very labor intense and costly.

I'm looking for some sort(s) of scent that I can spray around the perimeter several times a week. My plots are all within 100 yards or less from a well travelled graded road. If my noise maker is too loud someone will hear it and steal it the first night. I'll come up with something.

Thanks to all for your input.
CB

6011Artist · Mar 21, 2013

has anyone else used the knee high electric fence and did it work? I need something for deer too. I quit planting beans and peas, all I was doing was feeding deer.

jwmorris · Mar 22, 2013

Everything will get used to things unless you kill them. Think birds at an airport. 140+db almost all the time and still a problem.

Do a search on propane cannons for fruit orchards.

CliffordK · Mar 22, 2013

I like to use an electric fence in, and around the garden.

I string it as low as possible when I plant to keep the crows & turkeys away.
Then, as stuff starts growing, I raise the fence, and eventually put it away from the rows.

Don't just string the fence around the garden, but put a few wires in the middle of the garden so that if the deer get in, they will still get zapped.

And, don't forget to turn it on after you do your gardening.

The nice thing about an electric fence is that you can take it down when you are done.

Solar electric fence chargers are great, easy to use, and you don't need to find a place to plug them in.

Baby Grand · Mar 22, 2013

rockinmywaypa said:
you could use a radio on a timer so that it comes on a few times a day, talk shows may make the deer think that there are people around.

Depending on the radio show, it could annoy them right into the next county.
Just hope they don't figure out the snooze button.

GLyford · Mar 22, 2013

jwmorris said:
Everything will get used to things unless you kill them. Think birds at an airport. 140+db almost all the time and still a problem.

I have most of my back yard fenced in for the dogs. They're out there a half dozen times a day, sometimes for hours if its nice. Yet for 3 or 4 years running the rabbits in the neighborhood have felt so comfortable there they've dug dens and had kits inside the fenced area--even though the dogs find the dens every time. We got a new puppy last year and he found a den the first week we had him.

So if a couple of real dogs don't keep the critters away, I don't have a lot of hope for a recording.

PILOON · Mar 22, 2013

We had lots of wind chimes and lots of deer to eat our flowers.
Last year neighbor installed many wind chimes and also got lots of deer however over the harsh winter all our chimes got silenced.
Interesting result is that our flowers went untouched that summer.

My deduction is the curious deer were attracted to the chimes and discovered the tasty flowers suggesting their hearing is more sensitive than their noses.