Deer can jump high or wide but not both at the same time. A horizontal
extension to the top of a fence can work well (highly visible.) Flagging or
otherwise making wires visible does help. I change my electric fence around
every so often and if I don't flag it with cloth strips or marking tape the
local deer population will run it over (not good for deer or fence) until
they learn where it is. If they can see it they avoid it.
73 Patrick AF5CK
-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Smith N4ZR
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 3:59 PM
To: TowerTalk
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Bye Bye Deer
To revert to a suggestion someone else made, why not put some of those
10-foot yellow tubes on your top-loading wires? Presumably, if they can
see the wires, deer will choose not to run into them.
73, Pete N4ZR
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On 1/7/2013 10:05 AM, Rich wrote:
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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