I have been busy lately with driving kids to school and going around flooded streets, and didn't notice the deer ate my plant in the front yard, they ignored the food plot out back and ate my asperygus , strawberrys , tobacco , peanut , roses , privit , and nibbled on every thing else. Not sure why they got turned off of the wheat and beans in the back acre. And this morning something ran off with my opposom I shot last night in the trash.

I don't think deer eat marsupials, but I could be wrong.

I know how it feels growing and then hoping to eat the bounty only to go out and see it eaten already.LOL

Cat might have drug off possum or a coon but who knows?

Apparently next years food plot should include the above mentioned variatles.

The possum was obviously just playing....well, you know... .

If I harvested as many big game animals as I do trash raiding marsupials, I would have the Ultra Super Slam.

Tobacco, pnuts, and strawberry, I like those deer!

My guess would be a coyote for the opossum snatcher. I grew up just outside of town. The deer were pretty thick because there was a metro park right around the corner. We had a 2 acre garden and most of the neighbors had big gardens too. The neighbors knew we were a family of bowhunters and asks us to put stands up in their back yards and kill a few deer. Unfortunately we had all filled our tags hunting our own garden.

Hahaha George I laughed so hard at your reply

lol Stout. Shoot the deer with a wrist rocket?

Yep, hard to have a garden here too. I've given up on peas, squash, and cucumbers. They did a number on my mustard greens last night, just when they were looking good.

the deer have a game they play w/me & garden, seems like every new deterant I use they counter it. Last summer as soon as green beans got their new shoots deer worked on them hard even though I used a hot wire so this year put up a 6ft. fence completely around it, so they promptly jumped it after dark....my move next.HA.

Time to return the favor and eat some Deer!

Steve

this year I moved to the front yard to keep deer from eating my efforts, I had a bumper crop of beans and corn, as well as squash, after the harvest I planted peanuts in the same location, in past years the deer have only visited my front yard a few times, . I feel the heavy rains have caused them to flee there normal food sources and venture to greener pastures. I found a single dog track out back, there are strays in the area. All the yotes met a terrible fate around my house this yr. I have a few rabbits out back witch don't eat much, the deer we feed but don't hunt, my wife says off limits. I think the deer are aware of this being a deer friendly area. I question the deer mental abilities to be a bit more then given credit for, it seems they adapt rapidly to there surroundings, and tell hows a threat or not, . I had small Yellow Finch land 3 feet from me yesterday to feed on aphids on my apple tree, the bird just kept one eye on me as she moved from branch to branch passing less then a foot from me.

Around here even the vultures won't eat a possum!

I have a freind who says we should plant Hostra and Azaleas in our food plots because in his neighborhood those plants don't stand a chance. lol

I get ticked when the bugs get to one of my cucumbers or tomatoes in my little backyard garden. If a deer was to get to it, it would be completely gone in one night.

Rabbits got my green beans.

Deer ate all my red and green tomatoes.

I ate my deer.

I have an electric fence that the deer were jumping, I had aluminum foil strips on the top wire coated with peanut butter on the fence to "train the deer" not to get close to the fence.

They still jumped the fence.

I saw this video and took the foil strips off my fence rendering the wire virtually invisible, deer stopped jumping my fence.

I haven't tried the fishing line but will next year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKWsyn9TgHE

This is the first shift crew which casually nibbles in the hayfield behind my house. They're waiting on darkness before coming all the way to the house to beat daylights out of our shrubbery and plants. Meanwhile...there are 8 more deer in front of the house and a half-dozen scattered here and there.

they ate my Hostas, Strawberries, fruit tree leaves up as high as they could reach, squash plants, Zucchini you name it they ate it.. Ive pretty much gave up on having flowers, fruit trees or much as far as vegetables..

they ate my Hostas, Strawberries, fruit tree leaves up as high as they could reach, squash plants, Zucchini you name it they ate it.. Ive pretty much gave up on having flowers, fruit trees or much as far as vegetables..

Have a bagillion Hostas around my house, bunch of different color varieties, and a few deer, but have ever seen a Hostas plant nibble on, although they will eat my Yucca plants during late winter...

Every deer resistant shrub or plant I've planted has became a deer favorite. Now they've taken a liken to the ivy on the driveway bank eaten it faster than it can get established. And it's a small deer herd!

This is my mindset:

If they get fat eating what I planted, then I get to get fat eating them. lol

I'm going to Kevin Dills house! I mean, it sounds like he is in a real Mano vs Deero struggle there.

I am thankful to live so far away from neighbors that my dogs running loose don't offend anyone. They keep the varmints run out of the garden. I have a a redbone hound and a big catahoula mix that earn their keep. There are deer and hogs creating havoc all around our area, but I seldom lose much to them. The catahoula did drag up a big nutria out of the pond the other day.... What kind of an indelicate beast can go in the water and drag out a twenty-five pound rat? I love my dogs.

Oh and of course they returned last night to help them selves to more Peanut plants, they pulled so hard that they got the nuts up. Maybe I should plant peanuts next yr in my food plot out back. Of which they have not touched for weeks. A buck ran through at 430 am this morning on the cam but failed to eat anything. They fawn out front finished the tobacco plant and found the rest of the strawberries as well.

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