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best way to use hair for deer deterrant!

 
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ive been saving my hair all winter.. anyone have ideas on how to package it up to discourage the deer fron my garden?

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saving human hair as deer deterent
 
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Not sure what you are trying to protect, but my deer wouldn't care about hair.  You can shove it into a pantyhose leg and put it around something, but it should be up in the air, not on the ground.

Are you sure it's deer?  What I used to accuse deer of was actually being done by packrats and rabbits.

Deer are very easy to deter...they can jump high and narrow, so an 8-foot chickenwire fence works.

They won't jump over a 4-foot fence into a space that is too small.  I've got a garden that in essentially the shape of 1950s "kidney" tables about 20 feet long and 4-6 feet wide, snaking side walls.  There's a second one next to it.   There's a herd of about 8-9 deer here regularly, they've never touched lots of flowering shrubs in it.

They also don't like deoderant soap, but rain will dissolve the soap into the soil, which is not a good thing.  An upside down plastic cup over the bar of soap, hanging from a branch of the tree you are trying to protect might work, but it takes about one every 6 feet in all directions to make a difference.
 
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You just gave me a great idea!

Put the hair in cheesecloth, panty hose, what have you, but I'd soak the whole mess in deer repellant spray first, and hang it from your fence or a post. I don't eat egg yolks, whites only, but I use the yolks in a really nasty spray.

Use 3 eggs or 5 yolks (or 6, whatever), and at least 3 cloves of garlic. Add a tbs of milk (I just use a tbs of dried milk as we don't do dairy), a probiotic capsule (helps speed up fermentation), and do it up in a blender with a cup or two of water. The milk is just to make it stick to the plant, so I guess you could use liquid dish soap, a few drops or so. Toss the mess into a gallon jug, fill to the top with water. Let that mess sit a month, or till it stinks to high heaven. Strain out the solids with muslin or cheesecloth. Add the leftover solids to your hair mess. Put the strained stuff in a sprayer, spray your trunks and your fence perimeter.

Don't use it on fruit trees while they're blossoming or in fruit. I generally just spray the bottom of the trunks, and the area around your fence. It only reeks like h*** for a day, but the deer and elk can smell it for weeks.

It's the same stuff that Home Depot sells for a stupid amount of money, but if you have chickens and raise your own garlic, it's pretty cheap. It smells really disgusting til it dries, but it really works. Deer and elk hate it. Make sure you aren't downwind when you spray it (or you'll need an immediate shower after), and tell the dogs to go find someplace else to be. You can add cayenne to it if you want. I don't, cause I've killed plants with that stuff, so I don't use it.

The only other thing I know what to do with a glob of hair is to cut it in little pieces, and add it to your garden soil for really slow release nitrogen.
 
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