🛑 Stop Deer 🦌 and Rabbits🐰 from Eating Your Plants
In this video I'll show you how to cheaply and easily repel deer and rabbits from plants, trees, gardens, decorative and precious plants cheaply and easily and it lasts for MONTHS.
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DEER:
Buy cheap bars of soap in cardboard boxes
(some insist on Irish Spring but any heavy perfumed soap will work)
Drill a hole through the center
Put a weather proof piece of twine through the hole and tie the bar of soap (still in the box) to your trees or shrubs.
You can also shred or grate soap into your flower beds however it will melt with watering so you'll have to keep up on it...
RABBITS:
1" poultry netting (chicken wire)
I use 36" long but you can use longer if needed.
I cut 18" x 36" pieces and wrap them around new saplings to prevent rabbits from eating the bark.
Once a sapling is 3-5 years old the rabbits don't seem interested.
RACCOON AND OPOSSUMS
In this video I talk about blending 12 raw eggs, 5 qts of water and garlic to repel deer and rabbits, you can also add clove oil to that. This can also work for raccoons and opossums as they hate the harsh smells, but keep in mind, its eggs so its sticky and messy and leaves a visible mark on houses, cars and trim, and it can wash off and become less effective over time.
In the case of Raccoons, the eggs are just a sticky agent for the garlic and cloves as raccoons like eggs so for raccoons, maybe omit the eggs if you need to spray on home. I have people tell me that the egg mixture worked for them to repel raccoons so you'll have to test it.
You could also try motion activated sprinklers if you're in an area that is not freezing... they really hate that and that leaves a great negative impression on them.
They also hate with a passion.....CLOVES so placing some clove oil where they visit may helpl
When we lived in California, I went to the $1 and bought cheap bottles of very hot, hot sauce and that kept them away too.
You can also try moth balls... another nasty smell to raccoons, opossums and rabbits.
You can buy a commercial version of repellant here if you don't want to make it yourself.
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I like the soap trick. I use to take my dirty laundry and hang them outside on a post. The smell seemed to throw off the raccoons and deer but like all things the rain takes the sweet smell away. I'll be hanging soap this year. My garden will smell fresh and clean. I'll have fun with the visitors with this one.
Thank you. Just bought $1,400 cdn of chicken wire. Your advice is what i will use. Cheers :)
Great info for rabbits. We are lucky here in Rural IL. Foxes really keep rabbits to a minimum.
No, you are blessed. I am across the river in Missouri and I have a plague of rabbits this year. They have eaten my garden down to stubs. I wish I had a herd of cats or a pack of foxes!
Thank you for this great video.
Oh my goodness, I have hazelnuts that are wild, just moved to this house and we have deer every day. These trees are brush, they just grow. but I would like to maybe start to harvest them. So I will start hanging soap!! we are in Western Washington. I am glad I found you.
We have hazelnut trees and hazelnut bushes, sometimes I think the bushes produce more but yes, the deer are a big problem.
I got about a dozen pecan tree volunteers that had just sprung up at a friends house. We dug them up and I planted them at my house. I looked forward to lots of shade one day, but it wasn't to be. Either rabbits or gophers came up and chewed them in half. Strangely, they didn't eat them. Just chopped them in half and left them for dead. I was able to save one using the chicken wire. It was about fifteen feet tall when we had that big freeze a while back and it froze all the way down to the ground. It popped up in the following spring though and quickly surpassed it's original size.
I can't tell you what chewed your trees in half, probably rabbits as you surmise but I have also watched squirrels do it here. We're very dry and I believe the chipmunks and squirrels want a drink from the stem as the squirrel seemed to suck on the stem for a minute after chewing it off. That's where the bucket traps come to be effective for us because the rodents want a drink and end up taking a swim!! Thanks for watching and the comment.
Use the bar of soap first and then hang the little bit you're left with at the end and this gets even cheaper. :) Also if you have a dog that sheds a lot then brush them and use that hair in the socks you mentioned. Or even just spread the hair around on the ground by your plants.
I love watching your videos . Very informative
So nice of you, thanks
Thanks for another great one 👍 ❤💙
Thanks for watching
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
i have to deal with,,a squaril,,,rabits,,and birds,,,,help!!!!
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Thanks Captain!!!!!!
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Great videos! Had done the Irish Spring soap bars, not the method you described which I will try again now. It hadn't worked for me in the past, deer still did their nibbling and left their poop pellets around the soap, especially around my grape vines. This is only my experience. I Didn't use the chicken wire and had removed soap from the box. Maybe the rain washed the scent off over time or in Our Canadian winters froze the soap? Will try your instructions instead Enjoy all your videos, Looking forward to your video on toenail fungus, also running out to try your hornet/wasp killer method. Those villains chase me out of my workshop, tried the paper wasps hanging deterrents, does help. The worse are the nasty wasps in the ground that attack you relentlessly while cutting grass. On a large property, 73 acres we can only do the best we can and your channel is fabulous!!! TY!
Any luck trying the soap again with this method?
Thanks for sharing. What do you do for snakes
That is a great question and I have the video on my list however it's way down in priority. I have over 50 videos on my list to film and I'm working hard to get there... I just took on an assistant to help.
Thank You for your video. I have tried everything but it didn't work. Today I going to try using soap. Wish me luck.
Best of luck! Thanks for watching...
Awesome great video thanks for sharing. How do you keep Rabbetts and Squeals out of your garden?
The dozen egg spray I talk about in the video with added cloves and garlic is a very good repellent for rabbits, opossums, raccoons and many other animals.
We put 4' chicken wire all around, with 6" flapping underground towards outside to discourage digging. Will add the soap idea now :) Wondering, when winter turned to Spring, i gathered a full bottle of beetle bugs. Gonna mix it with water, take the bittle juice & sprinkle it in the garden. See if this helps, & maybe darn slugs backoff lol. Cheers
Hello sir. Thanks for sharing another great video
Ur welcome. That’s for watching.
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@@xmachine7003 I’m filming it but its not yet complete…
@@CaptainWingnut All right. Like your place.
Hello I really enjoy your videos, I was wondering if you could share how to kill horse flies ? And I was trying to find out if you sell Hazelnut bushes ? Thanks
Horse Flies = KILL ANY INSECT THAT TOUCHES THIS kzhead.info/sun/o7qnlMyrqpuPn6M/bejne.html No, sorry, we don’t sell nut trees.
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What flavor soap and is the bar in a cardboard box or just wrapping? Thanks this is really great!
WILL OTHER SWEET-SMELLING SOAPS WORK, OR DOES IT HAVE TO BE PALMOLIVE?
I think he just as stated is using the Palmolive because it's cheap as he could find, like he said any sent (out of the ordinary) is going to spook them.
Any thoughts on gophers?
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Can anyone help me on how to stop racoons from making nests in my gutters of my house. They are destroying my gutters
In this video I talk about blending 12 raw eggs, 5 qts of water and garlic to repel deer and rabbits, you can also add clove oil to that. This can also work for raccoons as they hate the harsh smells, but keep in mind, its eggs so its sticky and messy and it washes off. In the case of Raccoons, the eggs are just a sticky agent for the garlic and cloves as raccoons like eggs so for raccoons, maybe omit the eggs. I have people tell me that the egg mixture worked for them to repel raccoons so you'll have to test it. You could also try motion activated sprinklers if you're in an area that is not freezing... they really hate that and that leaves a great negative impression on them. They also hate with a passion.....CLOVES so placing some clove oil where they visit may helpl When we lived in California, I went to the $1 and bought cheap bottles of very hot, hot sauce and that kept them away too. You could also try moth balls... another nasty smell to raccoons and rabbits. Good Luck and thanks for watching my videos.
Using mothballs outdoors may not be legal in all states.
Instead of posting a MAY statement with no data, how about posting the States that it is not legal in…
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