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- From: Willie McKemie <mf AT austinfarm.org>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing experiences
- Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 06:13:48 -0500
> been there, done that and it really doesn't work all that well unless
> the deer are really well fed and not particular interested in what
> you are growing. If they are even a little bit hungry, electric
> fences even with the bait and streamers and the double fence doesn't
> work.
I've used a double electric fence to very good effect for several
years. About 48" tall, about 36" apart. About a year ago, a flood
took out sections of it and it was several months before I got it back
up. Last year, I endured minor deer depredation; I suspect a single
deer learned to jump the fence or was trapped within the fenced area.
I have about two acres enclosed that is heavily vegetated and gullied.
Just the past couple of months I have seen evidence of probably one
feral hog and am in the process of trying to trap him. I suspect I
have the hog restrained within the fence; he roots along the inside of
the fence, but not the outside.
I agree that a motivated deer can seemingly go anywhere. I once
watched a medium size deer hit a field fence at full speed and go
through it; the wire spacing was about 6"x9".
Two closely spaced strands of barbed wire on the top of a fence can be
a fairly effective deer snare. I sometimes see one hanging by a leg
and I many times see the top two wires twisted together where a deer
has escaped.
--
Willie, ONWARD! Through the fog!
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- Re: [Market-farming] Wasps in lettuce?, Krystle, 05/09/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing experiences, Franklin W. Davis, 05/08/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing experiences, Richard Robinson, 05/08/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing experiences,
Catherine S, 05/08/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing experiences,
Leigh Hauter, 05/09/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing experiences,
Andrew R. King, 05/09/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing experiences, lucy Owsley, 05/09/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing experiences,
Joyce Paski, 05/11/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing experiences,
E C GRANATA, 05/17/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing experiences, Willie McKemie, 05/17/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing experiences,
E C GRANATA, 05/17/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing experiences,
Willie McKemie, 05/09/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing experiences,
Allan Balliett, 05/09/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing experiences, Willie McKemie, 05/09/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing experiences, Lynn Hudson, 05/13/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing experiences,
Allan Balliett, 05/09/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing experiences, Celeste Illgner Havener, 05/12/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing experiences,
Andrew R. King, 05/09/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing experiences,
Leigh Hauter, 05/09/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing experiences,
Errol Castens, 05/09/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing experiences,
Allan Balliett, 05/09/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing experiences, Janet Bachmann, 05/12/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing experiences,
Allan Balliett, 05/09/2008
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