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July 20, 2018 2 min read
Natural Deer Repellents
Both the recipes and myth about natural deer repellents exists. While some people go with them, others on the other hand wouldn’t even hear of them. But whichever the case may be, there has been a continual advancement in taste and odor repellent in recent times. Strong smelling soaps, human and animal hairs, pepper, garlic, cloves, urine from predators, feces from large cats, eggs, fabric softener, fertilizers, certain herbs, spices and vinegar have been the basic ingredients for scent based natural deer repellents. While pepper, garlic and hot spices constitute the basic recipe for taste based natural deer repellent.
A common belief exists concerning natural deer repellent. They are odor, contact and taste. Odor or scent based natural repellents such as the use of urine and rotten eggs work by imitating the smell of humans or certain predators. The taste based repellent work by introducing an unpleasant or painful experience to the deer while it feeds on the plant involved. The odor based repellent would be more effective because in using it, the deer doesn’t stand the chance of feeding on the plant at all, but engaging the entire senses of the deer in repelling is even more effective. Adding things like scarecrows, dogs, horns, fences and coverings in conjunction with the repellents would in no time send Bambi scrambling out of your premises.
For natural deer repellent to be effective, the following points should be taken into consideration
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