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Title: Blacktails
Post by: quackkiller on March 15, 2014, 02:04:49 PM: What is the best way to get blacktails in your property, we have seen a bunch on neighbors properties but none on ours, I have tried salt and buck jam but only have seen 2 does and they Diddnt touch it, any ideas would be great thanks!
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Post by: RadSav on March 15, 2014, 02:06:48 PM: Rose Buds.
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Post by: quackkiller on March 15, 2014, 02:14:23 PM: Really? I've never heard of that haha
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Post by: PolarBear on March 15, 2014, 02:18:38 PM: I know that they LOVE my apple trees and the acorns from my oaks.
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Post by: MarkyMark on March 15, 2014, 02:23:14 PM: Geraniums.
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Post by: quackkiller on March 15, 2014, 02:43:54 PM: Diddnt know blacktails liked flowers lol thanks for the info guys!
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Post by: RadSav on March 15, 2014, 02:46:22 PM: I have never tried it, but a few friends on Whidbey tell me great things about C'Mere Deer "Buck Juice" and "Hold'em Honey".
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Post by: STIKNSTRINGBOW on March 15, 2014, 03:15:14 PM: From my experience, you will be hard pressed to get deer to travel out of their "normal" routes, There is plenty of food around, they wont walk to far unless it is a delicacy.
But try this, NO PETS outside, and plant a garden, the more $$$ you spend on plants, the sooner they will be eaten.
unfortunately, usually at night.
Only bait I have heard that actually works is apples.
Everything else is hit or miss.
Although I have a friend that started with his son feeding one a soda cracker, after a few years now all he has to do is pop a bag of microwave popcorn... and she comes wandering by in a while, bringing her fawns.

But his house is also along a regular travel route caused by restricting construction and traffic in the area.
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Post by: Wolfdog2314 on March 15, 2014, 03:21:01 PM: Apples.

Wet cob works well too, but if the bears find it it's all over.
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Post by: Smossy on March 15, 2014, 03:21:53 PM: Stick's with beaver lure on them :chuckle:
Checked my first trail cam set today and had a blacktail doe sniffing the stick. Pretty exciting.
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Post by: Curly on March 15, 2014, 04:55:16 PM: We had 4 hanging out in our yard today. They seem to be eating clover or something in the grass. Yesterday there were 6.

We usually have several fawns born on our property every year. One year it was triplets and twins. We've got 5 acres, mostly wooded and its all fenced with 4' high fence (so it is easy for them to jump but hard for the neighbor's dogs); I think they feel secure on our property from the neighborhood dogs.

Back when we had our dogs, we had a fair amount of roses and only occasional deer passing thru. After our dog passed away, the deer have devoured the roses and they make the rounds eating blackberries, maple leaves, and other bushes around here.

I'd say try to get clover growing in your lawn, that seems to keep them coming back.

They used to always visit my compost pile right after I mowed; I have since switched to a new mower with a mulching blade so no more piling up the lawn clippings, so the deer are going to be disappointed...... :chuckle:
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Post by: quackkiller on March 15, 2014, 05:47:48 PM: I have been thinking about doing a garden or a good food plot, I have a lab and a shorthair and they are outside every day but sleep in the barn, we have 5 acres but we have like 20 trees on the property, but it's all wooded and clear its behind the place, the beaver lure is funny, that's the last thing I would ever expect haha and we have a fence around the property but I have been concede ring about taking the fence down because its just an electrical fence and the dogs don't wonder out they like to stay close unless there's an occasional grouse haha but was also considering planting apple trees on the property, any ideas on that? Thanks for all of the replys everyone!!! Also I have tried wet Cobb and have not ever had anything but squirrels and birds eat it all haha
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Post by: PolarBear on March 15, 2014, 08:23:32 PM: The blacktails around here won't touch wet cob or any type of grain unless it is growing on the stalk.
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Post by: irishevox on March 26, 2014, 07:33:42 AM: i put my cams near a small water source and i have alot of activity. i recently put corn down to see how they react to it... i had a salt lick down and it have been there since last year.... it is almost gone but just b/c of the rain... i never seen a deer touch it.
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Post by: Encore 280 on March 26, 2014, 08:06:43 AM: Just let your wife plant some roses and raspberry bushes and see long they last. I've already had to run them out of my raspberry bushes and they'll keep coming back as long as there's leaves on them. Sneaky little buggers.
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Post by: jackmaster on March 26, 2014, 08:15:17 AM: Grow different types of apples, but definatly grow crab Apple, that way your the only one with fruit on your trees in February matter a fact grow 2 or 3 and then any kind that produce early... but crab Apple is the number one.... it takes awhile for them to produce
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Post by: NRA4LIFE on March 26, 2014, 08:41:46 AM: Grow some green beans in a garden plot. I have had to completely enclose mine to keep the deer out.
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Post by: Encore 280 on March 26, 2014, 08:54:51 AM: ...............and corn, beets, blue berries, peas and beans. :tup: and they will come. :yike:
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Post by: ValleyHunter88 on April 07, 2014, 09:09:00 AM: Apples, lots of apples.

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Post by: irishevox on April 07, 2014, 12:46:45 PM: Apples and corn!