Deer deterrents

[muldonach]

Originally Posted by smartie

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When we put up a barrier high enough that the muntjac couldn't jump over it, they tunnelled underneath. .............

Hmmmmmm... bit intrigued by that one - roe and I guess muntjac will readily go through any pre-existing gap in a fence line but I have never encountered or heard of them actually making one where none existed previously.

Are you sure the muntjac made a tunnel or did they just squeeze under a gap between lower strand and ground?

Regards
mavc

[smartie]

Of course it wasn't precisely a tunnel - in that it wasn't wholly underground - visions of deer with spades and pit helmets

What they did was a mixture of pushing up the bottom of the wire mesh as much as they could and scrabbling the soil away below it. So they made a groove about 15 cm deep at its lowest point under the fence. As you say, they probably made use of an area where there was already a slight gap between the fence and the ground, but they definitely enlarged it. I saw one scrabbling.