Hot Peppers To Keep Deer Away

July 16, 2008

A formula used by Barry Davis in Pennsylvania to keep deer away from his crops may have managed to keep more people away than deer. Some concoction he’s created using a combination of hot peppers, pepper spray and insecticide intended to keep the deer from eating his crops, managed to make some of the neighbors hurl their lunch and experience some breathing difficulties.

Davis said that deer have become so prevalent that where they once would eat a row of a crop they now can destroy an entire field.

This can’t be in Pennsylvania! I thought the Pennsylvania Game Commission had mismanaged the deer herd in that state so poorly that there were barely any deer left. Oh, wait! Is Montgomery County in the Southeastern part of the state that is overrun with deer? That must be it.

Tom Remington