All About Deer Fencing
If you’ve got deer regularly coming onto your land, you’ll know how much damage they can do. One night they can get into a field, garden or young woodland and make a real mess of things. They love eating crops, garden plants or young trees down to the ground. A well setup electric wire can be a good way of putting them off. Rather than building a tall, expensive deer fence, you can use electric fencing to create a barrier that encourages deer to keep their distance.
Our permanent deer fencing is ideal for areas that need long-term protection, while our mobile and temporary fencing is useful for seasonal protection or where the fence needs to be moved from one area to another.
Mobile Electric Deer Fence
- A powerful solar energiser is recommended to provide reliable power wherever it’s needed.
- connect the green connection cable with crocodile clip from the energiser to the earth stake. Install the required number of earth stakes according to the specifications of your chosen energiser (keep earth stakes at least 3 m apart). You can find this information on the energiser’s product page.
- Earth stake + mounting adapter or energiser stand
- Red connection cable with crocodile clip connects the energiser to the fence wire
- We often recommend using a sturdy starting post like wooden or metal posts. Metal posts such as the Gallagher Multi-Reel Post is great as it allows up to five reels to be attached. This can be especially useful for longer fences, although it isn’t essential.
- We recommend fencing reels with rope or wire as a reliable and easy-to-use option for your deer fence. They’re particularly handy if you need to move or adjust the fence from time to time
- Use the reel brackets to attach the reels to the metal post. They’re easy to fit using the included nuts, bolts and wing nuts.
- Use Multi-Reel Connector Sets to connect all the wires together (you may need two sets depending on how many wires you aim to electrify). The crocodile clips attach to the wires and make it easy to connect them.
- We have a few options for intermediate posts, but one we can certainly recommend is our 2 m tall deer posts. They’re lightweight and easy to install, making them a practical choice for a deer fence
- Use a strong electric fence polywire or rope for the fence wires. For example, Vidoflex 9 TurboLine Polywire is a good option for a deer fence.
- These wire clips are compatible with the deer posts and can be easily attached at the recommended heights. You can also adjust them to suit your preferred wire spacing.
- Polywire connectors can be used to create a small loop in the wire and attach it securely to the ring insulator. Simply make a loop in the wire, fit the connector and attach it to the ring insulator.
- The same metal posts from start can be used to end the fence. Use bolt-on ring insulators, as they can easily we bolt on through the holes in the metal posts.