Cull deer - not likely!!

[tamborine]

An excuse for more meat......

Put up anti-deer fences to save the deer. One electric strand is hardly price prohibitive!

[jake-the-peg]

How many deer exactly does there have to be before you'd agree to kill them?

They are already an absolute menace on the roads!


Oh hang on - do you live in a city?

[Gromit]

Nationally there are four million deer, the most there have been for the past 1,000 years, despite an annual cull of 350,000.

[LeMarchand]

Personally couldn't give a stuff about speeding motorists, but understand that there are more deer than the woodland can support.

[VHG]

Put up anti deer fences !

What round the whole of dartmoor, and exmoor, and every other forrest in England. And alonside EVERY road that runs through or near a forrest.

Be practical.

While I love deer (and all animals) there comes a time when they need culling.

They have no natural predators, can ruin young forrests and new growth, and can wreck habitats for other animals by eating their "food".

Sorry, but it has to be done.

[rov1200]

I had the unforunate experience of hitting a deer at night. As well as killing it the damage to my vehicle was over �2000 and non reclaimable. Deer culls are necessary for their own survival. In ceratin parts of the country they are rounded up and put in sanctuarys, this is probably the best option.

[jake-the-peg]

It is a good reason to eat venison too it must be said!

Yummy

[LoftyLottie2]

I am a country dweller and I love deer. However they stroll out onto dark country lanes when you are driving at normal/slow speeds and cause lots of accidents. We don't have lighting down our roads in the country.

They are lovely animals, but there are loads of them - and quite honestly they do have to be culled. I would rather eat a culled deer who has roamed free than an intensively farmed animal.

One is living quite happily in my son and his neighbours back gardens in our local town. He will be spared.

[Gromit]

The McBambi

could be a winner

[Oneeyedvic]

I won't eat venison - nothing to do with the moral aspect but on my budget I find it a little dear.

I'll get my coat.....

[LoftyLottie2]

boom boom!!

[fredpuli47]

What kind of deer do you have there, LoftyLottie? We have the flying dog pig, otherwise known as the muntjac (size of a pig, barks like a dog, 'flies' over fences).Ours seem to have a degree of road sense. Did have to rescue one, that, amazingly, had got its head stuck in a stock fence (it had run through a hedge without seeing the fence on the other side). They could be a nuisance in commercial forests, because they like to strip bark.

Surely we only need to cull to stop overgrazing. It can hardly be practicable to deer fence everywhere.Just put up warning signs and hope for the best, seems the only realistic answer.

[LoftyLottie2]

Muntjak and Roe, Fred.

There are deer warning signs all over the place. They are mainly Roe deer in the wood behind, and occasionally they stroll casually over the field between us and the wood.

I think it's a muntjak in my sons garden. Both myself and my son have homes very close to a local nature reserve and I think that the muntjak has come from there - just a few fields away from the edge of the town.

[Gromit]

I made up McBambi, but I have just googled it and found a picture

McBambi Burger

[R1Geezer]

well there is an animal in dire need of a cull, something like 60 million of them in fact.............

[Gourmander]

Trust R1 to want them culled, he thinks all animals are for food and experiments.

[Clanad]

Here, in the western U.S., if deer are allowed to overpopulate, within a very short time, Mother Nature takes care of the situation... disease enters the herds and soon they're down to a manageable size (the herds, not the deer). We, of course, allow and encourage hunting of them and some years triplet deer licenses are issued allowing the taking of three on one tag.
We live on the family ranch and have in the neighborhood of 1250 deer. Each year about 300 or so of that herd are harvested. Overall, my western State has triple the number of deer versus humans... and that doesn't begin to include the antelope, elk, mountain sheep, etc....

[LoftyLottie2]

I presume RI was talking about the human animal. Perhaps he has a point!

[jake-the-peg]

I've heard conflicting reports on whether muntjak are good eating

Anybody tried it?

[LoftyLottie2]

No. Actually don't like venison at all, but no problem with others eating it.