Whats the best deer repellent

i been using hair from my barber for six seasons and it works great. Deer and elk ( we have elk in michigan) will only eat pot once. They will eat a whole crop in one sitting because they love the taste, but they dont understand the high and HATE IT. i add fresh hair every two weeks all year and bowhunt the areas on the weekends. We are experimenting with dog fur also.

ProPlayer420 said:

This from Yard & Garden
This is the link if you want more info: http://www.extension.umn.edu/projects/yardandgarden/ygbriefs/h462deer-coping.html

REPELLENTS
Two basic types of deer repellents are available. Contact repellents are applied to the plants, causing them to taste bad. Area repellents are placed in the problem area and repel due to their foul odor.

• A study conducted in Connecticut tested six repellents. Generally, repellents were more effective on less preferred plants. Here are the findings:
• Big Game Repellent also known as Deer Away, made from putrescent (rotten) whole egg solids was 46% effective.
• Hinder, made from ammonium soaps of higher fatty acids was 43% effective.
• Thiram, a bitter tasting fungicide, now commonly used in repellents, was 43% effective.
• Mesh bags of human hair, collected from hair styling shops, was found to be 34% effective. (Hair should be dirty, not collected after a shampoo.)
• Magic Circle deer repellent, a bone tar oil which was soaked into 10 by 30 cm. burlap pieces, was 18% effective.
• Miller Hot Sauce, containing capsicum, an extract of hot peppers, was 15% effective.

No scientific studies have been made of the following two techniques, but they are offered for the reader's consideration. Perhaps they're worth a try!

1. Some people have had success with tying pieces of deodorant soap on the branches of trees. A large bar is cut into about six pieces and each piece is placed in a mesh bag and tied to the branches. Non-deodorant soap does not seem to work as well.
2. Two eggs and a cup or two of cold water mixed in a high speed blender, added to a gallon of water and sprayed on the foliage has been effective in some cases. This egg mixture does not wash off the foliage easily but re-application two or three times a season may be needed. (For a larger quantity, blend a dozen eggs into 5 gallons of water.) This mix should be used a distance from the residence as it has an unpleasant odor. It is also thought to repel rabbits.

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I have read that it smells of a decaying carcass, the herbivores deer and rabbits, will aviod it. I hope bear don't think its rotten enough for them. They play hell with my 5 gallon pots, just like a dog and a chew toy. Plants all over the place and buckets with holes in them.
I will try it any way dragging fence in the bush, and hiding it during the off season is hell too.

Over here deer out number people. I was going to go cheap, using blood, hair, and mothballs. But now in the spring, I'm going with a better guaranteed product (using more than one defense wouldn't hurt either, but predator urine and mothball would have to be replenished after every rain). Maybe this will help, and I hope Gilfman doesn't mind me reposting this. Goodluck.

Gilfman said:

deer are easily taken care of with a guaranteed product (Liquid Fence, Repels-All, Plantskydd*) .. also a friend said moth balls worked for him but i've yet to try .. just go with the guaranteed product instead of hair .. also predators smell the blood and MAY dig up your plants .. (i had a problem with an animal just digging up the soil of my plant and uprooting it but i saved it in time (I used blood and bone meal for nutrients tho)) ... IMO

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McMurphy said:

Over here deer out number people. I was going to go cheap, using blood, hair, and mothballs. But now in the spring, I'm going with a better guaranteed product (using more than one defense wouldn't hurt either, but predator urine and mothball would have to be replenished after every rain). Maybe this will help, and I hope Gilfman doesn't mind me reposting this. Goodluck.

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The thing with mothballs is to put them into a cannister like a plastic film cannister put the moth balls inside and poke small holes through the lid and cover then hang the cannister upside down so the holes hang toward the ground this will keep them dry...best to set up a perimiter around your garden...we even hang them from the lower branch of the plant itself helps with rabbits too.. forgot to mention you do need to change em about every 4-6 weeks..just sniff em when u go out to check your plants...you will know...very cheap for a bag of mothballs

Alrighty....I took everyones advice on this one and thanks for all the replies. I used coyote piss, dog shit, and road kill. Then I went to the barber and got all the hair. Finally went to the butcher shop and got some bloody entrails. So now thanks to everyone my grow spot smells like death,piss,and shit and looks like a 70's afro that was murdered due to the blood. Yep thanks everyone just great suggestions. Im just kidding I didnt do anything yet its getting a little cold tonight and the next so Im going to hold off till next weekend. Thanks though for all the replies