Thread: Attracting deer onto your property / farm

Originally Posted by Ben Waimata

Yes I agree, locking them in could be good, but only if I could find the blighters reliably. Nothing more frustrating than having a lot of damage then watching them hope over the boundary and away. The problem is the cost, with 8km of boundary fence on this block alone the cost is pretty daunting.

I guy I know who lives between Napier and Taupo is intending to install deer exclusion fencing, his cattle stocking rate is down to less than half what it was do the pasture losses to deer. HBRC is now looking seriously at a region wide deer control program. Might be time for some hunters to get a deer culling proposal together.

might be time to open the gates and let folks in to harvest the deer.....do it properly and the folks allowed in keep eye on place and look after it.... riff raff git the biff bash and told to piss off hairy legs.....
I belive top up netting on existing fences would be far and away cheapest option...maybe only beaten by 3-4 individual wires...which would be recipe for leg entanglement of anything trying to jump....maybe the whole 8kms isnt needed....leave side nearest home open or into open country open...so animals have to come out into open to get in or out.... hopping over boundary and away would be harder to do in hurry if they had to travel even 1km in either direction to do so....

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

might be time to open the gates and let folks in to harvest the deer.....do it properly and the folks allowed in keep eye on place and look after it.... riff raff git the biff bash and told to piss off hairy legs......

It's a big issue that can't be solved one farm at a time, it needs a coordinated effort. One of the forum guys is coming out every now and then to check over my place plus a handful of other people and I are looking on a regular basis, but the deer are transient and none of us are controlling them adequately.