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  • From: boyd manges <bmanges@yahoo.com>
  • To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Deer and fishing line
  • Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 08:05:02 -0800 (PST)

deer are naturally cautious creatures, but can become
conditioned to eat fruit/buds.
I would certainly add white or holographic tape
streamers to a fishing line "scare barrier"...If they
are already conditioned to enter your orchard, you
need a 10 foot fence/tethered rottweiler/buckets of
poop/spoiled garlic/floodlights, etc. I've used
blackplastic for 3 years, the first year they bent the
re-bar and tore up the fence a couple times, but so
far so good this harvest season. I have a fishing
line scare tape above the 8 foot fencing on the back
and 2 strands starting above the 4 foot wire rabbit
fence at the front (visible) side of the orchard.
They won't jump over a narrow strip garden very
easily. A buck that likes crab apples or a special
bedding site will easily jump 10 plus feet.

boyd manges z5 N. Michigan

--- "Raby, Brian {20-4~Indianapolis}"
<BRIAN.RABY@ROCHE.COM> wrote:
> All,
>
> Back to this subject. Past postings on this subject
> have conveyed the
> information that fishing line, 6 pound test,
> postitioned at 18" above ground
> level, does an effective job of keeping deer out of
> an area. I finally
> tried this a couple days after Thanksgiving, setting
> out two lines. One at
> 18", one at 30" in height. The deer just walked
> right through it. Should I
> have used a heavier test line? Were the height of
> the lines correct?
>
> Thanks in advance for your feedback.
>
> Brian Raby
> Sheridan, IN, zone 5b
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
>
>


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