Anyone here using urine?

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#164

There is no law against squandering good gatorade? :wink:

#165

Just make sure to zip your pants back up before applying it in the front yard.
JohN S

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#167

Iā€™m still amused by your post.

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#168

Yes and my wife likes the fact that the toilet has no dribbles down the front. My plants and wallet like it to.

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#169

Hello all:

Am I the only one here to use urine to deter deers? Forget coyote urine, forget Irish Spring human urine is the only thing that get deers to ā€˜forgetā€™ about my orchard (and I have an 8 feet fence that they ā€˜force during winterā€¦)

If like me you are using urine to deter deers, do you have a ā€˜secretā€™ ingredient to get the urine even more smelly? What medication works best to make human urine unbelievably horrible smell? I used to take Lyrica and it would work wonders but now Iā€™m back to ā€˜regularā€™ urine and they are coming back in large number. Forgot to mention: this is a serious question nothing scatologicā€¦. Cheers. marc

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#170

Thanks for the advice concerning deer. Might save me some limbs on my young apple trees?

#171

Rotten eggs and thyme are two of the major ingredients in liquid fence. Iā€™ll be trying those this year.

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#172

Are you applying urine as foliar spray?

I have not observed diluted smelly compounds applied at rootzone to decrease deer browsing leaves.

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#173

Iā€™ve used rotten eggs for years, but also add a bit of the expensive stuff manufactured from hog blood. Stops them from destroying my trees but only prevents them from nibbling new growth for 2 weeks.

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#174

I have found that the more often I have sex, the more testosterone is produced and that really helps with deer deterrents. I looked up the topic and found that there is real science behind what I said.

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#175

Iā€™m late, so sorry if itā€™s already covered. What about scooping directly from a septic tank? Is that usable?

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#176

Should work really well for plant food.

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#177

As far as human urine scaring off deer, Iā€™ve experienced the exact opposite. In fact, I use my own urine to start deer scrapes every year. I do this in locations I want a buck to pause and give me a shot. Deer (all deer, bucks, does, fawns) will investigate these spots quickly. Usually within a day or two.

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#178

Good Idea. My wife likes to get good still shots of deer for her photo albums.

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#179

Never in a 1000 daysā€¦. Marc

#180

Iā€™m confident that this is a controlled study and Iā€™m looking forward to you marketing your product as the sexiest deer repellent on the planet. .

#181

That was 55 years ago. My urine is useless as deer deterrent now. It make great fertilizer. I have only stumbled across the research thanks to google.

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#182

Nope. Fresh from the body it should be downright sterile. After it has been contaminated with God knows whatā€™s brewing on the septic tank I would consider it a toxic biohazard.

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#183

It makes sense that if we are a predator, our own human urine could work much more cheaply and conveniently than say, cougar urine. I would think that asparagus would make it bolder. I have noticed that when I eat chicken or turkey, I can smell it in the urine. Those animals have senses of smell 10x better than ours, so If we donā€™t like the smell of asparagus urine, think how they feel!

John S
PDX OR

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#184

Perhaps a diet high in venison might infuse more repellent qualities into ones urine.

I will stick with my rotten eggs as a repellent, although I do like venison.

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