Today's Backyard Wildlife

[trc65]

Hope your protective fence is solidly anchored. We've had several bucks out here wandering around with a big wad of fencing balled up and hanging off their antlers. As much as I hate the deer ruining landscaping, it hurts to see them handicapped like that. If the wire keeps them from eating they'll starve.

Not solid per say, I use a couple of electric fence posts to keep the fence from moving and rubbing the tree. However, I also weave the wire on each horizontal to the other end, so it's a complete woven circle. They can do a lot of damage to the fence and the tree if they get caught up in it, but next to impossible to rip the fence from around the tree.

Around here, there is enough fence around pastures and some fields that I'm guessing they've learned to avoid it for the most part.

 

[Wildthings]

The deer are going crazy again trying to rub my trees. I've got 48" high woven wire fence surrounding each tree (ranging from ~ 3-6" DBH), and in spite of that, are still trying. Had a couple trees they attacked the fence with no damage to the tree, but at least one of them really likes this branch on the chestnut. Damage doesn't bother me, it's a lower branch that I would have pruned anyway in a year or two.

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It's that time of year where the ladies are starting to smell purdy and they are getting real "horny"