Death from shade cloth

Sorry for your loss! I feel bad for the ol gal that must have been aweful painful. I personally have never seen this but i have heard some horror stories in relation to shade cloth and being entangled.

Very helpless feeling when you cant figure out whats wrong! then it turns out to be plastic, very sad! sorry for your loss!



Scott Neeb

www.chanllowfarms.com

I had a buck die on me this summer because of shade cloth. I.ripped it all down now!

I wouldn't use it ever down here,

I use roof sheets (corrugated Iron) were I need a visual barrier. Seen this & similar things like plastic bags, balloons ,rubber gloves ,etc, kill deer too often.



Cheers Sharkey

Deer are like horses in this manner, some chew on it some leave it alone, just like a horse on a barn door. The easy way is to put the shade cloth on the outside of the fence which should help to deter them from wanting to chew on it. I have not heard on one dieing from it but have seen some photos of buck wrapped up in cheaper shade cloth and ground cover material which unwraps itself. I also sell and harder plastic material that is solid and the deer will not be able to chew it due to the thickness. I am sorry for your loss Autumn A, a loss of any of our deer sticks.

Autumn-A give me a call, I have another item here that might work for your needs and it will last longer then the fence will, might save you some money as well if you are not going the shade cloth way.

I am sorry for your lose. I know how you feel. We had a buck about 5 years ago get really sick and tried everything and he still died. When I have a deer die and don't know what is wrong. I always do an necropsy on them. He had a big wad of shade cloth in his stomach. We had another doe that acted the same years later and we put her down thinking it was the same thing and it was another wad in her stomach. I went to a farm after that all happened and they had a whole bunch of it laying on the ground and hanging on the fence all torn and shredded. I told him my story and he said he had lost a few deer and didn't know what had killed them and all had the same symptoms mine had. If you put it on the outside of the fence and watch really close and soon as they tear a spot in it replace that section soon. If they eat the little strands that come off they will usually pass it, but when they get a larger piece off and chew it up and swallow it they are dead. A quick fix if they tear a whole in it until you can replace it is take a small propane torch and burn the edge of the tear all the way around and it melts the plastic and makes a good seal all around the tear. I personally will not use it anymore accept for my one pen that just has doe in them and only put it on the outside.