Re: [TowerTalk] Bye Bye Deer

[Rich <rehill@ix.netcom.com>]

Deer can and do jump 12 foot high fences.  Your highway department 
likely has fence designs for excluding deer for highway safety reasons.  
Some deer fences are 15 feet tall after 12 footers failed to keep deer out.
Deer do not have good depth perception.  An angled fence or an opaque 
fence may make them too nervous to jump.  Five to six feet angled and 
opaque may do it.  All depends on how well your local deer have been 
trained to jump fences comfortably.
Google will give much information.  Some of it good...

Rich
NU6T

On 1/7/2013 6:45 AM, Wayne Kline wrote:
> Hi Keith   Though that everything was BIGGER in Texas... Nest to me is a 1/4 horse 
> farm... there three grazing pastures, they have pulsing electric fence on all three the 
> closest one is solar powered. and the  insulated top wire is @ 66"  ... the Deer  
> in my area don't even need a running start to clear them.  At dawn and dusk timeswe see 
> it regularly, not so much during hunting season.    It's funny to watch the Doe's teach 
> the fawns how to jump over the fence. and have witnessed them get Zapped. boy do that 
> hop around then !  but the experienced dose not seem to curb there appetite for the 
> Horse feed !   Wayne W3EA  > From: kdutson@sbcglobal.net
> > To: K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net; towertalk@contesting.com
> > Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 07:56:39 -0600
> > Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Bye Bye Deer
> >
> > Run an electric wire on top of the fence.  Works well on 5 foot fence.  Deer
> > may enter once, then never again after first shock.  Ask me how I know.
> >
> > 73, Keith NM5G
> > Deep Meadow Equine Svcs, Inc.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of K8RI
> > Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2013 2:05 PM
> > To: towertalk@contesting.com
> > Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Bye Bye Deer
> >
> > On 1/6/2013 1:26 PM, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote:
> > > To the best of my knowledge, nothing really works except fencing.  A
> > > neighbor across the road has an open permit that lets him shoot as
> > > many deer in his resident herd as he needs to keep them from
> > > destroying his corn crop.  for years, he had a propane cannon rigged
> > > to fire periodically, but after a few weeks the deer just discounted this.
> > >
> > > Local vineyard.s have gone with 8-foot-high fences to protect their
> > > grapes - may be the only way
> > Depends on the deer. Many Mi white tail can go right over an 8' fence and a
> > good 8' fence is expensive!
> >
> > 73  Roger (K8RI)
> >
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