Re: english ivy & deer

[Kim]

I pruned my english ivy back and want to throw the excess over the fence. Is

> it bad for deer to eat this? >

I just think that they don't eat it.

-kim

[Phisherman]

I don't have to throw my English ivy over the fence. The deer usually prune my ivy down to the ground during the winter months. I wish it was bad for them, but I try to make it untasty with various applications.

[Chris Owens]

No, but unless they are very hungry, they won't. So, unless you want it there for a while, don't throw it over the fence.

Chris Owens

[Gary The Rookie Farmer]

You should probably check with your neighbor before you toss it over the fence. He just might toss it back.

[Janet Baraclough]

The message from Chris Owens contains these words:

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Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy; A kid'll eat ivy too Wouldn't you?

Deer relish eating ivy once they get a taste for it; it's nutritious. IIRC, goatkeepers feed ivy to ailing goats.

In our last garden I had a ruined railway goods van which was nicely covered in ivy, until the local deer tasted it and ate off every single ivy leaf below 5ft :-(. It was winter but no snow and plenty of good grass and other browsing herbage.

Janet.

[Chris Owens]

No, but unless they are very hungry, they won't. So, unless you want it there for a while, don't throw it over the fence.

Chris Owens

[Mogie]

Cow pasture behind us about 200 acres of nothing.