How do deer and figs get along? I've been offered a nice hillside to grow some berries/fruits on, but there is evidence of deer nearby. Will I be fighting a loosing battle, or could I grow figs with deer nearby? Any recommendations as to whether I should fence the whole field, or just put mesh circles around individual trees?

Thanks in advance.

Deer are hard to fight. I've seen them go over fences and push into the circles until they calaps to get what my they want. 

My neighborhood is infected with mule deer, I spray wolf urine from time to time to keep them out of my yard. A little crazy... but it works. 


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Deer should not bother figs at all unless just to rub there antlers on in the fall.  I have quite a few deer around and never a problem.  I also have goats around fig trees every day and they just ignore them

My house is in the middle of a deer path - woods in and around the backyard provide a safe passage to another neighborhood - and they like to eat a lot of different things I plant. A lot. But they've never touched my figs. I assume they'd have no problem eating any of them - maybe the mature leaves are too coarse, though? - but I think there is plenty of other forage around when my trees start to fruit. Squirrels, on the hand, have started getting more cheeky...

I have had deer chew on new growth here also .....

So, cover new growth in wolf urine? Or set up a deer blind near the figs?

Maybe it depends on available forage. I live in Louisiana so the mild winters could offer more forage opportunities. My goats or certainly overfed and don't touch them. But they do chew on pine and apple tree bark. No figs though. Also I am surrounded by woods. Maybe if deer are nibbling in open areas its more habit than hunger.

I like the deer blind idea