On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 05:17:52PM -0600, Michael D. Porter wrote:
>
> Mike Rambour wrote:
> > How about a simple electrified fence ?
>
> A real high one, maybe. (!) I was coming back from someone's house in
> the country near where I live one evening, watched a mule deer walk up
> to the edge of a barbed-wire fence, stop, stick its nose over the top
> wire, and then it jumped--cleared it neatly from a standstill. It wasn't
> that tall, either. If they can jump straight up four feet from a
> standstill, I would guess they could do six feet, easy, with a run up to
> it.
I've seen them leap up 6' banks.
The websites and gardening books recommend 7.5' fencing.
If there is some depth as well that is supposed to help
since they can't jump both high and far.
Eric
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