Wildlife friendly barbed wire fence

[MikeSSS]

Your deer will be fine. Not been in the country long?


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Saw my first cow last week Dush

[Dushon]

Saw my first cow last week Dush

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[merlin]

ha ha haa

[merlin]

Go regular height and cheat it up in a few places on the t-posts. They'll find it

[RifleBowPistol]

They can get over it, but the problem is you will have some that will get their back legs hung up in the top two strands. I put some thought into this a while back, but not really enough thought into it. We are planning to put up a fence around our place in the near future. I know the biggest problem with barbed wire fences and deer, is when they jump over the fence, if they barely clear. Sometimes one of their rear legs, goes under the top strand. Since the lower part of their rear legs point forward, their leg goes under the top strand and over the second to the top strand and then as they continue forward. Their leg is angled downwards, then twists the top two strands together and acts like a trap.

If the top two strands were far enough apart, this would not happen, but that would have to be close to 2 ft. Most guys are not going to do that. The other idea I had was to tie some thin sheet metal between the top two strands, so their rear hooves can't go between those two strands. That would get expensive. Possibly some type of plastic, might be economical to tie between the top two strands.

[brokeno]

5 wire fence won't slow any game down. I had a neighbor once put slick wire on bottom and top wire so it won't injure deer.

[brokeno]

Along the road I put netting wire instead of 5 strands.