Animal repellents. Do they work ?

[coffeeman]

Hi all.
Can carefully placed animal repellents be a viable plan to protect homes, gardens, barns etc. I have heard moth balls,
pepper oil and pepper, capsaicin and oil and other things that might send the animals away. I have tried a thing
called "snake be gone" or something close. Last couple years I haven't seen any. But just might be coincidence.

I am planting a garden AGAIN this year. I plant one tomato plant for me and two for the critters. So a 100 plants
gets me 33 plants for me. This year I want to get rid of the animals by discourage them from my place. Don't need
to kill them, just send them to woods for dinner.

I am looking for a list of things that can repel the animals. But, i really don't want to pay $20 a bottle for 2 pound
of powder of which less than 1/2 % is the repellent. I am guessing there must be a way to control animals
less expensively .

Interestingly I searched net and I was inundated with all the commercial concoctions from big box stores etc.

Cheers.....Coffeeman

 

[ovrszd]

Sorry I can't help you with a solution.

My experience was that I bought a bag of animal repellant. Supposed to repel everything. I sprinkled it around in an outdoor toilet at our farm campground. Left the bag closed sitting on a shelf. Mice chewed a hole in the bag and built a nest using the repellent..........

 

[murphy1244]

The best one that worked for me was Tiger poo. put a little around the garden and nothing would want to eat up my garden.

 

[Looking4new]

12 gauge shotgun loaded with rock salt worked for me. 1 good load of rock salt and they wont come back.

 

[PILOON]

Drink lots of beer and piddle everywhere. Works! (human urine scent does the trick)

My wife swears by sachets of Lifeboy soap among the flowers. Have done this for last 3 years and no more deer eating the hostas.
Others also report similar results.

 

[murphy1244]

Drink lots of beer and piddle everywhere. Works! (human urine scent does the trick)

My wife swears by sachets of Lifeboy soap among the flowers. Have done this for last 3 years and no more deer eating the hostas.
Others also report similar results.

Lifeboy is much easier to get than Tiger poo. I'll try that. Thanks.

 

[bcp]

I think many things will work when they are first put out. Eventually the animal learns that it is not a threat and they ignore it.

Best is a fence too high to jump, and an electric wire on top for the climbers.

Then the birds will get it all.

Bruce

 

[coffeeman]

I think many things will work when they are first put out. Eventually the animal learns that it is not a threat and they ignore it.

Best is a fence too high to jump, and an electric wire on top for the climbers.

Then the birds will get it all.

Bruce

I had a black car one time. 4 crows that had a route stop every day at my place they used that car as resting stop. They landed on
that car most every time they came. Some days they missed car stop, they were probably behind schedule. Also had a dark blue car about same size.
Crows never touched it. I bought an Owl, plastic. Didn't work. So I go to the Tractor Supply. I ask for "something for crows?" Gal takes me to bird
food.. I said, "no I want poison to kill them." If looks could kill, I wouldn't be here. A few choice words and she left. So I left the store.

Crows love affair with my car caused scratches. So I parked car in garage for couple months. Later they never bothered it again.

A mystery to me.....Coffeeman

 

[4570Man]

12 gauge shotgun loaded with rock salt worked for me. 1 good load of rock salt and they wont come back.

Bad idea. It causes severe rust in the barrel.

 

[RSKY]

I planted a rose bush two weeks ago and the deer are it four days later. Came back and pulled it out of the ground. I planted another one in same hole today and tried a formula I found on YouTube. One quart water with an egg yoke and on tablespoon of baking soda. Put it in a spray bottle and spray it on every two weeks or after a rain. Supposed to repel deer after they take one bite.

We will see.

I will post results, when I have some.

Also put game cam up to make sure it was deer.

RSKY

 

[PILOON]

Lifeboy is much easier to get than Tiger poo. I'll try that. Thanks.

I erred as she actually uses the green soap bars, Irish mist or something like that.

 

[oosik]

I've tried many things. Some work for a while - others never do work. Very aromatic soaps, certain types of plants, human urine, human hair, bottled snake oils of various types, aluminum foil and pie pans. After a while the wildlife become use to even the most vile concoctions.

Now - tiger poo - I've never tried. No tigers in this area.

 

[RSKY]

I planted a rose bush two weeks ago and the deer are it four days later. Came back and pulled it out of the ground. I planted another one in same hole today and tried a formula I found on YouTube. One quart water with an egg yoke and on tablespoon of baking soda. Put it in a spray bottle and spray it on every two weeks or after a rain. Supposed to repel deer after they take one bite.

We will see.

I will post results, when I have some.

Also put game cam up to make sure it was deer.

RSKY

Well.....I have the results. It did NOT work. Rose chewed off nearly to the ground this morning and the one stem with a pretty flower on it broke off. Game camera didn't pick up anything. Was expecting a deer and guess I had it pointed too high. Gonna set it up again tonight with my battery powered electric fence around it. Bet it was a rabbit. We have seen several in our yard recently. As a matter of fact the guy across the street says that when his wife leaves for work at 4:30/5:00 she sees every kind of wildlife that resides in our area in my front yard. That is why I thought it was a deer.

Rabbit stew anyone?

RSKY

 

[2LaneCruzer]

The deer have become pests in the last couple of years (we have lived here since 1972). They are eating my tomatoes and peppers. I mentioned this to my daughter, who has had deer problems for about 10 years or so. She said they use "Liquid Fence" and it keeps them from eating her flowers and shrubs. She said it works well; they were eating her rosebushes down to nubs...supposedly smells like coyote urine. I will definitely try it; they have eaten several of my tomatoes to the point I doubt they will recover. Here's a link where they compare it to another product:

Compare Deer Off(R) to Liquid Fence(R) Animal Repellent | Havahart US

 

[ohmyback]

Retired grounds keeper for the KC Royals swears by Deer Scram. They reformulate every couple of years so the deer do not get used to the smell. It smells of rotting deer so it deters them.

 

[dan ny escarpment]

We have tried many, liquid fence will work if applied often and after rain, but in the winter time in NE Ohio, they will destroy arborvitae and others so we have to fence those off with 6' wire fence placed far enough away they cant reach the branches, but close enough they wont jump over. A bunch of surrounding cities here finally approved bow hunting which should help, but the population here has skyrocketed over the past 20 years. This one was right behind the house last summer.

 

[mapper]

I am about to try a deer repellent recipe that uses putrified eggs, blood meal and pepper sauce. Just got home from COSTCO with five dozen eggs and a COSTCO size bottle of Tabasco sauce. Mix, let sit for a while, run through an old blender then a sieve to take out the chunks and apply with a hose end sprayer. I used a commercial version of this last summer and it worked well, however at $20 a gallon (ready to use) I can't afford to cover much area with it. I understand that the purified eggs smell like a dead animal to them so they think there is a bad azz predator around and they look elsewhere for food.
I will let you know how this works out.