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SWBTATTReg

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7. They eat everything! We live near a state park, and the number of deer there was astonishing. It seemed
Fri Dec 8, 2023, 08:22 PM
Dec 2023

like the deer knew that they were safe there in the park (and they were)! Almost everyone in our MH park (behind the park) had, over the years, hit a deer. Fortunately none of the accidents were serious but they sure could have been. Driving through the park itself as we had to go (our way to our place was that you had to go through the park), you would encounter literally hundreds of deer, I've never seen so many in one place.

And the problem w/ the deer is that they get smaller (not enough food and such), and they get to eating anything and everything, not just Xmas trees, ornamental plants, bushes, fruit trees, grass, everything was at risk.

Further added:

And by the way, it was nothing for people to stop by, when no one was there at the tree farm, and swipe a tree from us (we had like 20 acres in the front of the property), we would drive up on our gravel road and immediately notice a tree or so missing. It was frustrating, w/ all of the work we put into it, planting, pruning, fertilizing, mowing, etc.

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