jyoutz
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The only 20’ high chain link fences I’ve ever seen were at correctional facilities. No animal can jump this, including the human kind.
(Mule) Deer fence construction recommendations
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Those humans inside the correctional fences don't try acause of the corner towers have armed guards!
Back in the 70's along NY17 SE of Liberty there would be a heard of deer on the hillside and highway, mabey 75-100 strong. They must have found a way around the fences that were put up to keep them away from the sweet grasses the highway department seeded along the shoulder.
Hey Rocky, What can you do with deer netting arched over the rows of the newer plants? On a much smaller scale I used deer netting around the 1/2 acre property in Irondequoit, NY to deter the critters from the flowers and garden in a residential neighborhood. I say deter as when one morning I found one in the yard, it ran straight through the netting (used fish line to mend the hole) to escape my wrath as a discharge would have had the IPD at my doorstep. I had streched wire from telephone pole to trees to 2 inch pipe set vertically with bird house mounted on top(town board couldn't think of a way to make me take down the birdhouses) to hang the fence. It did look strange to see tiny lines of snow suspended in the air after a light snowfall.
bob11x
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After doing a lot of reading we did a small test plot of 4’ fence. About 2’ inside we ran a string of blue pennant safety flags about 3’ high on t posts. Whitetail deer are sensitive to blue and the movement I think confuses them. Been a full year with consistent deer all around (camera) and no intrusions. They did eat everything outside tho…
Hopefully it works as we are expanding the area this year.
Hopefully it works as we are expanding the area this year.
workinonit
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It will work until the first kamikaze deer jumps it then you can't keep them out. At least that's how it is here.
jyoutz
Super Member
Mule deer step over a 4’ fence. Only a 8’ fence deters them.After doing a lot of reading we did a small test plot of 4’ fence. About 2’ inside we ran a string of blue pennant safety flags about 3’ high on t posts. Whitetail deer are sensitive to blue and the movement I think confuses them. Been a full year with consistent deer all around (camera) and no intrusions. They did eat everything outside tho…
Hopefully it works as we are expanding the area this year.
bunchgrass
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We've had luck with a 2 fence system. Inner fence was t-posts and cattle panels maybe 50 inches tall and outer fence is just a single hot wire using step in posts and a strand of poly tape (charged). Outer fence is placed about 3 feet from inner. Deer won't jump both fences at once and the space between the two is too narrow for them to easily land and jump again.
Also - a key thing is to not let deer get into the garden plot once. Once they've been in and gotten the taste, they will work a lot harder to get in again.
Also - a key thing is to not let deer get into the garden plot once. Once they've been in and gotten the taste, they will work a lot harder to get in again.
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bunchgrass
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Second idea I saw (never tried) in Farm Show magazine was regular T-posts set in place and 10 foot lengths of 1/2" rebar driven into the ground and attached to the T-posts. They attached either woven wire or cattle panels (2 rows high).
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kiotirocky
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I'll come clean.
My first fence in 2017 was inspired by whatever I found on the internet. And what I found said "deer cannot jump up and out at the same time". So I put together something that was about 8' wide and 4' high.
In these 3 photos in series you can see the complete disregard this muley had for my "fence". From the crouch-and-spring in the 2nd photo to the sailing-over in the 3rd, this doe delivered humble pie.
Anytime I think I'm smart, I just look at photo 3.
