What a terrible attitude on life, there are many ways to prevent deer from eating your crop. In my experience deer take one bite, and walk away never to touch it again. I have a patch made right in the middle of a trail, they might step on the fence, but they walk right through all summer long and don't even bend a plant over. The rabbits are the problem here.
Smell of decay doesn't keep dear away, I pretty sure animals don't understand death, their're definitely not afraid of it anyways. Two years ago my buck was courting a nice doe, I let him plant his seed before I dropped him and mounted him on the wall. The doe stayed around while I was dressing him for the long hull back to the truck.
Deer are not afraid of dogs unless being chased, in which case they would be afraid of anything at that point. Now putting Cat shit in your spot is a great idea, I found it brought in the predators like foxes & coyotes to catch the rabbits.
Yeah ilovethegreen I have strong feelings about poachers myself and if this punk was in my area he wouldn't be long getting schooled from my fellow hunters. He would end up like this guy.
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Sorry Humboldtchronic for the intrusion, I have been quietly following along, sucks about the surveyors, usually they are pretty decent and leave things alone, even the loggers cut around the patches leaving things be, best of luck.