On Monday, September 17, 2012 at 10:30:05 PM UTC-4, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:30:28 +1000, "Farm1" >
> wrote:
> >"Brooklyn1" <Gravesend1> wrote in message
> >> On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:05:49 +1000, "Farm1"
> >>>OMG! What do the deer eat when it's like that for a long time? I notice
> >>>that you've thrown some food out for one of them but is their grazing for
> >>>the other deer int he woods or what?
> >>>
> >>>Lovely pics BTW.
> >>
> >> In winter their diet changes to less grass and more twigs. They
> >> browse the brush at the forest edge and eat the exposed grass
> >> protected from snow cover by conifers... deer will also dig down
> >> through the snow.
> >
> >Thanks Sheldon. We are starting to see a few deer coming into the back of
> >our farm as they escaped from a deer farm. As if the blasted kangaroos
> >eating the grass wasn't enough but now we are getting more exotic
> >freeloaders!
>
> Unlike sheep deer don't eat down to the roots, deer trim just to mowed
> lawn height, saves some mowing.... unfortunately it's not possible to
> train them to eat everything evenly in one spot before moving on. I
> have no idea about kangaroos.

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