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  • From: Allan Balliett Gmail <allan.balliett AT gmail.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] NITEGuard pest Control lights
  • Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 10:20:33 -0400

We are having very good luck with Premeir-style 48in tall 3 elec wire fences.
Very easy to install and highly effective

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On Jul 13, 2012, at 7:34 PM, Barking Cat Farm <barkingcatfarm AT mindspring.com>
wrote:

> Sandy,
>
> We've not tried the NITEGuard lights, but somebody posted on this list
> quite some time ago that they had brought some in. If you can find it in
> the archive, maybe you can follow up with that person directly.
>
> We decided to not try them because we have very heavy deer pressure and
> could not afford to try something (else) that was not known to be
> effective. We came to the "possibly doesn't work" opinion on these lights
> based on somebody else posting to one of the lists that they'd tried them
> with no long-term success, as Allan described.
>
> Having said that, those who know deer behavior much better than us say the
> key with something that's not going to leave a lasting impression such as
> an electric fence is to not let it sit static for very long. So with these
> lights, they'd need to be moved often so the deer don't learn they are not
> going to harm them. I've no idea how often they'd need to be moved.
>
> One thing we have learned about deer first-hand is they are very smart &
> very agile, particularly with respect to food.
>
> Best of luck,
> Laurie
> Barking Cat Farm
>
>
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