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Re: Deer fence
In article <3aur3i$min@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com>, MarkZall@ix.netcom.com (Mark Zaller) writes:
>The deer eat almost everything at a house/farm I have, and I now want to
>plant several hundred fruit trees and grape vines. I think a fence is
>the best way to minimize the problem since I am sometimes gone for
>several weeks at a time. There is an exisiting 4 ft barbed wire fence
>around the perimeter that doesn't even slow them down. Locals tell me a
>fence needs to be 8 feet high to stop them, but any fence over 6 ft must
>have a 50 ft set back from the property line.
>
>Instead of an 8 ft fence I am thinking of a 6 ft fence 2.5-3.5 ft in
>from the barbed wire fence around 2 acres. I hear that deer can jump
>high, or jump far, but not high and far. Has anybody studied the way a
>deer jumps a tall fence? Do they take a 6 ft fence on the run, or stop
>and jump? How far apart should I space the two fences so that a deer
>can't jump from between the two fences, or over both of them together ?
>2.5, 3, 3.5 ft ? Has anybody tried the two fence idea?
>
>-Mark Zaller
Based on the requirements of the local deer-farming community (over 100
dedicated deer farms in my area of Ontario), an eight foot fence is indeed
essential. It has also been found that a truly motivated deer *can* clear
one of these. It occurs to me that a six foot fence might work, if at the
top a T-shaped cross piece is added. This may then prevent the long and
high jumps which the deer might attempt.
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