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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. > > -- > Willie, ONWARD! Through the fog! > http://counter.li.org Linux registered user #228836 since 1995 > Debian3.1/GNU/Linux system uptime 768 days 6 hours 14 minutes > _______________________________________________ > Market-farming mailing list > Market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/market-farming > Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. Sign up now. |
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Re: [Market-farming] Cost to lease land
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Re: [Market-farming] Cost to lease land,
saladg, 01/19/2010
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[Market-farming] Deer Fencing,
Marie Kamphefner, 01/21/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing, BarbaraJ, 01/21/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing,
BarbaraJ, 01/21/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing,
Kate Halstead, 01/21/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing, breck, 01/21/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing,
Kate Halstead, 01/21/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing,
Richard Robinson, 01/21/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing,
pech, 01/21/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing, bcluton, 01/21/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing,
pech, 01/21/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing,
Willie McKemie, 01/21/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing, Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 01/21/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing, John Pike, 01/21/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing, Tom, 01/21/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing, MAsteveINE, 01/21/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing,
Marcy, 01/21/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing, Marie Kamphefner, 01/22/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing, Leigh Hauter, 01/21/2010
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[Market-farming] Deer Fencing,
Marie Kamphefner, 01/21/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Cost to lease land, Hugh + Tuuli Cartmill, 01/20/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Cost to lease land,
saladg, 01/19/2010
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