Thread: Attracting deer onto your property / farm

It works better if you really really want the crop to feed your own livestock rather than have it stolen by deer.
Up the road 2 years ago that was happening, in desperation the farmer who lives off the property a got a bird scarer that worked for a while but really pissed off the neighbors going off at random all night. He was eventually forced to turn it off at night by sleep deprived locals but by then the deer had gotton used to it anyhow.
2 of us shot it one evening, we counted 17 on what was left of the crop and shot 5 before they twigged that the noise wasn't the bird scarer. As we were picking them up the others started wandering back out.

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

It works better if you really really want the crop to feed your own livestock rather than have it stolen by deer.
Up the road 2 years ago that was happening, in desperation the farmer who lives off the property a got a bird scarer that worked for a while but really pissed off the neighbors going off at random all night. He was eventually forced to turn it off at night by sleep deprived locals but by then the deer had gotton used to it anyhow.
2 of us shot it one evening, we counted 17 on what was left of the crop and shot 5 before they twigged that the noise wasn't the bird scarer. As we were picking them up the others started wandering back out.

I knew a Safari park operator who had bird scarers set up for that reason. The deer got so used to it that if the client missed a shot, the deer often just stood there thinking it was the scarer going off

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Originally Posted by Marty Henry

It works better if you really really want the crop to feed your own livestock rather than have it stolen by deer.
Up the road 2 years ago that was happening, in desperation the farmer who lives off the property a got a bird scarer that worked for a while but really pissed off the neighbors going off at random all night. He was eventually forced to turn it off at night by sleep deprived locals but by then the deer had gotton used to it anyhow.
2 of us shot it one evening, we counted 17 on what was left of the crop and shot 5 before they twigged that the noise wasn't the bird scarer. As we were picking them up the others started wandering back out.

Lol have seen farmers here try to use bird scares on pigeons here in the UK! They don’t work. Yep they might keep em off the crop for a bit. A Pelion has a memory of 10 days. So if he has a bad experience it takes him 10 days to forget it, not sure about deer.

Trying to convince farms that dead ones don’t eat crops can be quite hard at times.