Record number of deer kills prompts call to use meat in pet food

By Darren Gray
Updated November 24 2016 - 10:08am, first published October 20 2016 - 12:15am
Kevin Sanders at one of the fences he built to keep deer out of his apple orchard. Photo: Simon Schluter
Kevin Sanders at one of the fences he built to keep deer out of his apple orchard. Photo: Simon Schluter

A record 71,142 deer were shot and killed in Victoria last year, a jump of more than 14 per cent on the previous year and more evidence of the threat posed by deer to the environment, agriculture and even motorists.

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