[Market-farming] Deer Fencing

Derek Galvin dsgalvin at gmail.com
Wed May 27 16:26:27 EDT 2009


I've worked with a combination of the two suggestions below that was
effective at keeping deer out (one cow wandered through).  The set-up was 2
parallel rows of t-posts every 10-12.  Kind of an inner fence and an outer
fence.  The outer fence had 1 strand of hot poly rope at about 3 feet high.
The inner "fence," which was roughly 2.5 feet inside the outer line, had the
hot rope at 1.5 feet and 4.5 feet.  The charge came from a solar panel that
was mounted on a corner round post.  You could hang the PB if you wanted to
but we never did and it was still effective.  This fence worked like Mark's
suggestions of a deer not being able to jump high and wide at the same time
- though honestly I've seen a deer jump higher and wider than this in the
woods.  For whatever reason this seems to be visually baffling enough for
them.

I'd assume it would be cheaper than the double fencing with one section of
woven wire.  It certainly would be quicker than putting up actual fencing.

Derek

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Mark Abner <wizard1 at ctsbroadband.com>wrote:

> Robert
>        I dont think your approach will work at least not for long especialy
> if the
> deer have already found your garden. one approach that works for me at
> least
> part of the time is a 4 foot woven wire fence with an 8 foot peice of rebar
> attached to every other post and bent outward so it looms over the outside
> of the fence at about a 45 degree angle. with three strands of elecric
> attached two hot and the center grounded.
>        This has the effect of the deer attempting to jump the woven wire
> fence
> slaming its face into the electric and getting knocked back down to the
> ground. alteritively you can put a couple strands of electric 4 feet
> outside
> the woven wire fence at about a 4 foot hight. deer can jump high or jump
> wide but not both at the same time so a couble fence will stop them.
>
> Mark
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:market-farming-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Robert
> Farr - The Chile Man
> Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 4:01 PM
> To: Market Farming
> Subject: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing
>
>
> Howdy, y'all.
>
> I'm looking for some affordable electric fencing to keep out our
> four-legged
> friends.
>
> I'd like to try 3 - 4' tall posts with hot wire (powered by a 12-volt
> battery), hanging peanut-butter on aluminum strips every few feet.  The
> assumption is the deer will taste the PB and be zapped, therefore avoiding
> the area.
>
> Does anyone have experience with that approach, and do you have
> recommendations as to what kind of fencing to buy?
>
> I'm hoping to avoid the 8' tall plastic fence.
>
> Thanks much -
>
> Robert Farr
> The Chile Man
> http://www.thechileman.com
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