[TowerTalk] Bye Bye Deer

[Patrick Greenlee]

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 at sbcglobal.net
>>> To: K8RI-on-TowerTalk at tm.net; towertalk at 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 at contesting.com] On Behalf Of 
>>> K8RI
>>> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2013 2:05 PM
>>> To: towertalk at 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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