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[Lee Reich <garden@leereich.com>]

As far as the radio, it does not have to be loud -- just loud enough so the deer hear it. It's the noise itself, not the volume, that evidently scares them.

You're right about dogs. Fortunately for me, my two current dogs are very enthusiastic about watching for and chasing deer. Let me know how Deerchaser works for you.

Lee

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Books by Lee Reich:

The Pruning Book

Weedless Gardening

Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden

A Northeast Gardener's Year

On May 3, 2007, at 11:23 PM, Hélène Dessureault wrote:

Well LEE,

I did check your product today and decided to buy one. They are currenty on back order so I will be receiving my unit in Canada in about a month apparently . It looks very good and happens to be exactly what I was looking for (I did check a lot of security gadgets lately). For your information, the price suits me fine. A surprise radio that turns on suddenly is even better than a radio on every night all the time, I'm convinced, EVEN WHEN PLAYING RAP MUSIC.

To complete this subject, I had also found an electronic fence that appeared interesting. A beam of red light going from one apparatus to another, set 100 feet apart which sends an alarm when the beam is interrupted by an animal passing through. It is usually obvious in my case where the deers are coming from, so I had considered this as a simple solution.   

 

What I forgot to mention is that I have two BIG friendly dogs that usually sleep outdoors on the other side of the house. They chase deers occasionally when told to do so, particularly when I participate. When an alarm or a surprise radio goes off, I am sure that they will be set into motion as well to complete the mission, if necessary. What I cannot seem to impress upon them is the idea to keep watch and ward the deers off on their own initiative. It's funny since they chase just about everyting else.

Thanks for your suggestion. I will definitely let you know how it performs on my deers..... (or the deers in my region), since not all deers happen to be created equal, it would seem.

 

Hélène, zone 3-4, north of Ottawa

----- Original Message -----

From: Lee Reich

To: North American Fruit Explorers

Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 4:07 AM

Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Deer

Check out a product called Deerchaser on the internet. It uses only a 6 volt light and a radio set to very low volume coupled with a motion detector to scare away deer, protecting an area of about 625 square feet. It can protect a larger area by preventing deer from traveling along a pathway. (Full disclosure: I am the developer of the product which came onto the market this spring after more than ten years of effort.)

Lee Reich, PhD

garden@leereich.com 

Books by Lee Reich:

The Pruning Book

Weedless Gardening

Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden

A Northeast Gardener's Year

On May 2, 2007, at 10:46 PM, Jenny Ruth Yasi wrote:

This year, I am trying motion detectors. Last year, I used a radio and it 

worked well until the radio failed and the deers were back after a few 

days. I am currently shopping for the perfect motion detector.

Fencing can be quite expensive when you have a large area. <<

We had a motion detector with lights. Then we even added a radio set to a 

talk show station. That meant we were woken several times a night to outside 

lights and talk radio. The deer weren't even slighly phased. Deer are 

actually very intelligent animals, with interesting personalities, and they 

love to see what they're eating, they love talk radio.  We actually saw a 

deer fight once, clacking horns and everything. They really loved our 

garden! They pulled trees right up by the roots, they destroyed so many 

plants! They'd pull chicken wire off beans and eat the whole patch the hour 

before we planned to harvest. I vaugely remember we rigged something to set 

off a sprinkler, I don't remember how. We had bars of soap on string. We 

yelled out the windows and tried to shoo them away. Once I had to call the 

cops because I had a doe leaning on my living room windows, cornered by a 

buck, and the buck couldn't be chased off and wouldn't let me leave the 

house. The cops came and ran their sirens and banged on pot lids and chased 

them off, but both the buck and the doe came right back.  We were literally 

tripping over deer, because they would climb up on our porch to eat the 

pumpkins and fall asleep there. We had one go into our basement after the 

chicken feed. So finally we fenced in about half an acre(now we've got 

almost an acre and a half fenced in) and then we were able to live like 

normal people. At first we used the black plastic deer fence, and that was 

very affordable, easy to deal with (stapled to trees), but last fall we went 

to the galvanized wire game fence, which was heavier to deal with but 

actually not a whole lot more expensive, and it should last 100 years. You 

can get 330 feet of triple galvanized high tensile strength steel fencing 

for less than $500.

Yasi

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