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Just wondered if anyone can give me any idea of the height that muntjac can graze to. This is to give newly planted trees the best possible protection. The multi-stem trees will be protected by 4foot stock fencing, with narrower fencing at the base, placed in a 4x4x4 triangle around individual trees, but this is going to be very expensive to place around all the trees. IMO it'd be cheaper to dispatch the deer, but is a no-no with the owners. Fencing the entire area is also out of the question as the land is criss-crossed by footpaths, meaning that it would treble the amount of fencing. I'm thinking of 1,2m tubes for the single stem trees, but i have seen before where deer push against the tubes/stakes until they can eat the tops. Ideas on a postcard please?

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Last week i saw a muntjac mother with her baby, and i also counted 19 fallow coming out of the same wood. I have a new plantation planted 2 years ago and last week i picked all the tubes up and they have also eaten new shoots at the tube top. I have been asked to survey deer damage in my woods this year and if you look for muntjac tracks and the fraying to mark their teritory you will see it is only about 2 feet off the ground but yesterday i followed some red tracks and the fraying was nearly 2 meters high with roe and fallow in the middle. Fallow deer have learnt to open tubes. from what i have here on the estate fallow do all the damage to trees muntjac and roe eat mainly weeds and grass and browse hedgerows. Isaw a roe deer yesterday eating new hawthorn leaves.:001_smile:

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a friend of mine who has a lot of them uses the branches from the trees to cover coppice stools and the new growth comes up through it

 

the deer can't get over the heap of branches without falling through

 

he also shoots some (as many as pos) but his coppice blocks are good enough for the forestry commission man

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