Avoid Deer Repellent Failure
Almost everyone with a yard or garden has heard at least one old wives tale about easy DIY methods for keeping deer off your property. And of course, they are always “guaranteed” to work, and yet when you try them they fail. Here are a few of the reasons why the “tried and true” approaches don’t work.
Hair Clippings
An old classic deer repellent is a little bag of human hair. The idea is that the smell will scare deer off because they are afraid of people. Seems reasonable enough except that most deer aren’t all that scared of humans, especially those that live around residential areas in the first place. So don’t bother saving up your discarded hair bits. They likely won’t help. Neither will the similar trick of using human urine around the borders of your yard. Deer just aren’t that afraid of people. Continue reading
