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Someone was telling me to drive T-post in the ground for them to rub on. Good idea but you would want to keep a close watch on the post so they don't bend them over and you end up with a spear.

Anybody else got any ideas?
 
I cut down a tree that was about 6 inch in diameter at the base and drug it into the pen for them to rub on. They have been tearing it up.
 
If you go with the tree idea make sure that you dont use a cherry tree. Cutting of the tree will release a poisin into the leaves that can kill if eaten.
 
I learned last year that if you leave your tractor in the pen, they will rub on it. I also learned that red paint can be washed off antlers on the day the deer are knocked down to transport. However, I did have some 6' treated posts leftover from when the farm was built, and I tamped some of those into the ground. I also have some old treated 4x4's that I'm going to put in some more pens when I get around to it...They don't seem too picky. I have some T-posts that used to support some pipes where trees were protected-that is, until they started rubbing on the pipes and got them off. I also have some 5x9' sheets of heavy steel from some silo bins that I use for shade, and they like those, too.
 
ER- I like the tree idea. May have to try that one. I've always liked to cut branches for a treat. A week ago, I thought, why not pile them up and let the bucks tear into them instead of my good trees. They love it. But I don't. Spent probably 4-5 hours piling branches back up this week. Decided to try something different. I pounded three metal posts in a little over a foot apart and in the shape of a triangle. I now make the brush pile on and around the posts to hold it together. It's been two days and its still in one piece. It's too early to tell for sure, but so far, so good.
 
ANTLER VALLEY said:
I learned last year that if you leave your tractor in the pen, they will rub on it. I also learned that red paint can be washed off antlers on the day the deer are knocked down to transport.
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I am highly disappointed in you Phillip. I would have thought you to be a upstanding John Deere Green kind of guy:p:p;);)
 
IndependenceRanch said:
I am highly disappointed in you Phillip. I would have thought you to be a upstanding John Deere Green kind of guy:p:p;);)
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Green paint will give them brain damage:D:D:D
 
I, too, am disappointed. If I had a buck like Updraft, I'd have a John Deere and a couple of Brazillian trainees to drive it every day.



IndependenceRanch said:
I am highly disappointed in you Phillip. I would have thought you to be a upstanding John Deere Green kind of guy:p:p;);)
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Use the tree branches or small trees . You can hang them from large trees or tie the butt end to the top end of a fence pole to keep it in place. Small branches are needed to do a good job of velvet removal and are lots less apt to break off small or weak points.....important if you want to keep all he grew intact on sheds. I hang some small trees with branches cut to stubs , 1-4 inches in diameter, upside down so breeder bucks can spar with it and stay off the fences or fighting with bucks in adjoining pens. Jim
 

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