Re: [nafex] Ultimate deer prevention

["dwalsh/wchase" <wchase@interchange.ubc.ca>]

Bernia,

I agree absolutely.

Why waste your time growing trees and fruit for the deer?

My fence was the best solution and I've paid it off in apples and fruit trees and
also in fewer hours spent worrying about deer, repairing the damage to the trees,
snitting, raging, throwing out the worst examples of a deer rampage, etc.

It'll be the best money you spend if you want to grow fruit.

I still have to battle rabbits, meadow mice, and crows, but I can deal with those
pests (sort of).

Derry

Derry Walsh & Bill Chase  email:wchase@interchange.ubc.ca
Aldergrove,  B. C.,  Canada
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----- Original Message -----
From: Bernie Nikolai <Nikolai@v-wave.com>
To: <nafex@egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 9:05 PM
Subject: Re: [nafex] Ultimate deer prevention


: After years of trying many things to prevent deer damage, free ranging dogs
: (got run over repeatedly at night), wolf scent (works, but only for 3 or 4
: weeks), eggs (ditto), etc. I found the perfect solution.  An 8 ft. gamewire
: fence.
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: Why fight it?  Its the ONLY thing that works long term.  Cost in Canadian
: dollars is about $1 per ft. if you put the fence up yourself.  The wire was
: $300 (Canadian, $195 US) for each 330 ft. roll, and the 10 ft. pressure
: treated posts were about $10 each.  I simply cemented in the corner posts
: and every 10th post on the side run, and spaced the other posts 20 ft.
: apart, tamping them in with a metal bar and garden soil.
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: Since money and time are concerns to all of us, use the "swiss cheese"
: method of problem solving.  Take little bites out of the problem until its
: gone.  Perhaps put in the posts this coming spring.  Next year or later in
: the summer erect a roll or two of wire.  Take a few years to finish the job
: if necessary. Time passes very quickly for all of us.  After all, how old
: will we be if it takes 7 years to very slowly erect an 8 ft. gamewire fence?
: Now, how old will we be in 7 years if we don't erect a fence?  We have all
: read and reread the many posts on deer control.  Since the ONLY thing that
: works long term is an 8 ft. fence, why fight it?  Just do it.  Life is too
: short to fret.
: Bernie Nikolai
: Edmonton, Alberta
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