Posted by If you’re looking to make your hunting areas more enjoyable, try teaching your family pets to do some deer hunts with you. Deer are intelligent animals that can be taught to do many things, including hunting. Although hunting with your pet can be dangerous, it can also be very exciting. Your family pet will learn a lot about you and the woods while on your hunt too! Yes, even do deer eat pumpkins!
First, deers are in the business of making sure nothing eats their food. They have very sensitive taste buds that can sense a few different types of foods. If they think it’s meat, they will likely go for it; if it’s fruit, they will probably move on to something else. This is why you want to give them fruits, but you also want to teach your pets how to smell the fruit.
You can find deer repellents you can spray in the fall to help repel deer from your area. These sprays are designed to kill mature males, so you do not want to use these near young children or pets. However, you can spray these around the edges of your gardens to keep deer from grazing on your garden or plants. Make sure to follow the directions carefully on the label.
While it is impossible to tell deer from other animals in your area by sight, you can tell a lot by scent. You probably don’t want to spray your yard with any type of repellent unless you are prepared for the fact that deer eat squash. Smelling the scent of squash can put a deer in full alert, ready to shoot as it comes into range. The same is true for deer eat pumpkins. Just don’t expect them to just walk right past it.
While we know many animals can and do eat plants, many of them prefer different plants. As such, it is important that you find the plants that animals most prefer in your area, and plant them there. If you do not, you will be competing with hundreds of other people for the same plants, possibly ones that are poisonous to the deer or other animals you are trying to repel. If you are in an area where deer are very common, you want to make sure you are getting your fields and surrounding areas planted with safe distance apart, in order to give them the best chance to get to your plants without running into each other.
Finally, try to create some kind of buffer between the pumpkin and your vegetable garden. This could be a pile of stones or rocks, a row of woods, or another structure. The purpose is to create a no-runway area where deer cannot get to your pumpkins and squash them to death. Without a structure like this, the smell will wash over the entire yard, causing the deer to become less likely to eat the pumpkins in the first place. Remember, if animals cannot smell your pumpkin seeds, they will not eat them. In fact, they will move on to the next tree or bush in the area.