Attracting deer onto your property / farm

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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.

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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....

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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......

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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.

I hear you....couple of strategically placed higher fences might make your job a little easier.....sure makes sign cutting easier if there is way they have to travel...hopefully you can channel them and cut them off at the pass so to speak.

Just hide behind a bush and make a noise like a bag of oats. They,ll come from miles away.:thumbsup:

Your mate drives along the road and pushes 3 fat stags off the side of the road into his farm where they go into the pines. Going back tomorrow for another crack at them. Beside the point he has nice grass. He videoed them last night from this truck.

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Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Buy it through farmsource or PGG Wrightson etc we buy it to put in water supply to encourage cows to drink and mask minerals etc

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Grapple would be the go

I had a cat once and for a experiment open all the different flavour small pet food pouches / sachets for him to choose from and naturally he chosed one he liked over the others. Which meant obviously that was his favourite food to buy over others in the future ?

If "wild deer visitors" were visiting your farm what food goodies would a traditional sheep and beef farmer outlay for them ?
So if all the paddock food supplements mentioned above were lined up next to one another what would the main winner be?

Horticulture products....? There is photos on the web of white tail deer eating carrots, tomatoes, cabbage, potatoes, mushrooms and other food stuff? It is stated on the web that the NZ Kereru and other birds can get a bit tipsy on fermented fruit berries. It also been mentioned that whitetail deer eating apples / fermented from an abandon orchard in the USA appeared to be in a inebriated condition. Anyone ever seen a drunk deer in NZ?