Jo --- Thanks for checking in! Jayne got busy, unfortunately, and this project came to a standstill. But hopefully we'll get something going eventually!

you gwuys are craycray, deers (expecially newborn deer) are the cutest thing ever! some of you have a good opinion cause deer are so adorable and everyone knows it. They are not a predator. They do not eat other animals! they eat fruits, crops, grass, and nuts. Deer are usually around 62-87 in. long and stay with their mother for about 2 years after theie born, then they go on their own and hunt for food. Deer or does or usually born in the may or in june. The weight of a deer usually depends on its species and sex. A male can be 100-150 and male can go up to 200pounds. A doe or baby deer can be about 20-30pounds!!! so cute!!! thats all i know so far so good luck people with projects!!! xoxo kay

So, it's now spring, 2013. Have you found the solar power design to run the deer deterrant? My yard and garden are too large to string extension cords. How about a battery operated driver? Put me on your email list and keep me updated, please! Thanks ever so much. I like your ideas and the clear way you explain each step. Most of all, I like the subtle humor of your writing style. Jo

Funny... 2.5 million years of evolution to produce an animal capable of trackin and obsevig the stars and there are still fools who disrespect the path that got us here. Animals are food. You are a hunter gatherer. try to ignore it but 99.8% of human existence has been as a hunter. Or maye its just that deer lack the sterile foam and pastic wrap that som of you must have to be able to consume meat.

Please keep us posted as to your experiments. My blood pressure is rising because of these deer!!

i love deer, their beautiful! xox

Looking forward to this information. Deer love our plants to much

Thanks Anna - glad you are happy with the progress - soon we will give a link to the YouTube video of it in action! Jayne

I'm excited to see the product design phase moving along so quickly!

Yes, I am really excited also!

I'm looking forward to the interview! And maybe a photo of the farmer? I always want to photo locals who tell me interesting things we share on the blog, but they often look at me funny....

My very first time to "catch" deer at play..it was such a "wow" moment when I spied them and even more so when I captured the photo!!! Thanks for the shout out!

Agreed they are getting rather large!

Great shot of the deer on its hind legs!

Perhaps we can plant those marigolds "sooner than later"!!!

Yes, and it is off to a good start so far! Thanks!

I love seeing a shot of your garden in the post! I'm looking forward to watching it grow, deer-free.

Glad you are looking forward to it . . .just a few final tweaks and we will post!

Just curious, do you folks have your garden enclosed by a fence or is the deer deterrent enough to keep the deer out? Fantastic idea! Talking to my husband now about doing this:)

Can't wait to see your newest invention, sounds fantastic!

Thanks for catching this too. Should be all fixed (I hope...)

Becca --- Thanks for noticing that! I think I've fixed it, but feel free to comment if it's still broken for you....

can't access steps 5 and 6.

This page "Step 2" is having formating difficulties in explorer. Not a prolem as far as access to info, but the look is a little jarring. fix or don't, it's up to you. Just thought you might want to know.

i got so much info

Mark traded for a muzzleloader a week or two ago. Looks like we need to go learn to use it now!

you can pick up a CVA Bobcat .50 cal muzzleloader for $50-85 most places. I want to say mine was around $75 new, and my dad got one at a gun shop for $50 cause the stock was a little dinged up. about $30-50 should buy you enough balls, caps, and powder to shoot for a long time. and remember, you can hunt with it during regular gun season as well in most places.

Another nice feature I didn't mention about this solution is the fact that it's battery powered, which might function as a good back up to a mechanical deer deterrent system like the ones I blog about here that require 110 volts of electricity.

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Re: F*** you (above)

I love deer, too!

Especially the young, tender ones!

Tasty!

To the author of the comment F*** you: you are an imbecile. Deer are the biggest (sized) pest known to man. I shoot them for fun. One can only take so much - they're cute until they make your kid cry, then it's time to "adjust" the deer population. So sorry. You are welcome to come and get as many on the tick-infested vermin as you want. Dead or alive. Let me know, K?

Oh, maybe that's why it works!

You're not raising special Attack Chickens, who instinctively hunt deer, like their dinosaur ancestors? :^)

i did not know that much about deer.there cool.

Interesting idea --- I assume you mean splice the rope back onto itself to make a loop without any kind of attachment? I don't know enough about rope to know if that can be done, but it does sound elegant.

I remember at some point (in my childhood) reading a bunch of detailed instructions about how to splice rope. I have never actually personally done this, of course. :^) Would it work with this nylon rope, or not really?

I think that what I like the most about this most recent incarnation of the deer deterrent is the way you've got the tin bent so that you get such a complex range of sounds with each rotation of the motor. That's probably why a mere three deterrents have been keeping our whole sprawling garden safe this summer (until the outage, that is.)

i love deers that i have bambi 1 and bambi 2

...since those were scrap pieces from my quick hoops.

I know....I know....it's kind of on the ugly side, which is why I now use the plumbers strapping tape that can be viewed in a future post.

You're totally right --- movement is key. I think the effectiveness of a trash bag would depend on whether you get enough wind that it moves at least every minute, but not so much regular wind that the deer get used to the movement.

For years I've had problems with deer liken my flowers more then me . I'm a hunter and I found one thing deer look for is movement day or night. For years now I've been using a large BLACK trash bag hanging on a 6' plant hanger pole right in there trail or from tree limbs . And to top it off some human scent ( wee wee ) to help it out some . It has worked for me . Love my flowers now .

My father swears by them, but I'm with you --- they're expensive and just don't work! Thanks for sharing your experience.

I think you're probably on a very different gardening wavelength than we are. We're not going for beauty here, but for keeping the deer out of our garden so that we get to eat homegrown fruits and vegetables. Thanks for commenting, though.

That is SOOOO ugly. I would be so embarrassed to have that in my yard besides being the talk to the town.

I purchased ten of them and tried them at various heights and locations to ward off deer, bear, mountain lion, fox, etc. (Several stopped working right after the one-year warranty expired). They didn't work for any of these animals. However, they do seen to threaten humans, who think I have cameras installed.