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  • From: Shawnee Flowerfarmer <farmingflowers AT hotmail.com>
  • To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing
  • Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:22:35 -0600

Very interesting photos; Thanks for posting
Shawnee, zone 5

> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:32:11 -0600
> From: mf AT austinfarm.org
> To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing
>
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 09:51:58AM -0600, Marie Kamphefner wrote:
> > Regards to the list:
> >
> >
> >
> > We need to install deer fencing around our garden area. Where is a good
> > place to start looking for something that won't cost an arm and a leg?
>
> I've had very good results from my double fence:
> http://austinfarm.org/homegrown/images/images3/index.html
> http://austinfarm.org/homegrown/images/images5/index.html
> It's been in service for 6-7 years now. The peas pictured would have
> been impossible without deer fence. As someone else mentioned, deer
> don't like to jump widths of more than about 30", though they can.
> Another option is a slanted fence whose top is 30" or more offset from
> the bottom.
>
> Cost to add a second electric fence to an existing barbed wire or field
> fence should be less than $1/foot. To build a double fence, probably
> $3-$4/foot. A "real" and substantial 8' deer fence will cost $7+/foot
> around here.
>
> We had a pretty thorough discussion of deer control here before I built
> my fence, probably in 2002. Lots of very interesting ideas. A guy
> with an orchard adjacent to Camp David was using semi-wild dogs and
> reporting good results. I don't know if archives are available.
>
> My fence has done a good job with deer, but failed to keep out coyotes,
> hogs, and coons. They no doubt get through where the fence crosses
> drainages. The bottom wire, which I would hope to keep out the
> above, is 1"-2" above the ground. Last year, I went around the
> perimeter to insure some ground clearance; that was a multi-day
> project. A few years ago, a couple of hundred feet of the fence was
> laid down by flood borne debris. Once or twice a year, I notice low
> voltage on the fence and have to go find the problem.
>
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