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  • From: Sarah Kehler Ewing <skkewing@yahoo.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] [Bulk] Protecting Apples
  • Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 09:36:20 -0700 (PDT)

Ha, ha, ha!

May I recommend a Great Pyrenees? They don't eat nearly as much as you would
think since they are HUGE, but they hate deer and coyotes and foxes with a
passion and simply will not allow them anywhere near their chosen territory.
We love ours and have not had a bite of deer damage in the orchard since he
joined our family 4 years ago.


Sarah
zone 3
Edmonton, AB


--- On Fri, 6/3/11, S & E Hills <ehills7408@wowway.com> wrote:

> From: S & E Hills <ehills7408@wowway.com>
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] [Bulk] Protecting Apples
> To: "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Received: Friday, June 3, 2011, 1:40 AM
>
>
> Wow,
>
> We come off as a pretty mercenary group.  No one
> mentioned the noose traps,
> I'm shocked.
>
> She's a girl living with her parents in California. 
> She'll end up in
> therapy for life, or wanted. 
>
> There are motion detecting sprinklers that could deter
> squirrels (with a few
> well placed solar lights you could protect at night. 
> It would mean leaving
> a hose on (but not spraying).  Night Guard solar
> thingies have helped for me
> significantly with major damage and loss of fruit.
>
> They make these tape things that scare birds by flashing
> and making an
> irritating sound (I have not tried them, only seen them in
> catalogs)
>
> A jack Russell is pretty effective (and cute)
>
>
> Scott Hills
> Zone 6b Michigan
>
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