[Market-farming] Deer Fencing

Willie McKemie mf at austinfarm.org
Wed May 27 17:02:49 EDT 2009


On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 04:00:38PM -0400, Robert Farr - The Chile Man wrote:

You'll find some photos of my double electric deer fence here:
http://austinfarm.org/homegrown/images/images3/index.html
also, here:
http://austinfarm.org/homegrown/images/images5/index.html

The fence was converted to double in 2003 and has worked well for me 
since then.  Cost to convert a barbed wire fence was a bit less than 
$1/foot, as I recall.  That includes labor; I had a contractor put it 
up.

There is significance to the photos of the pea crop.  Without the fence 
there would be NO pea crop.  In 2002, I had a very good looking pea 
crop and did not pick a single pea; deer ate then all.  Since 2003, 
I've had annual pea crops with little to no deer depredation.

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