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Planning Guides > Electric Fence Options (1 of 3 pages) USE THE DESCRIPTIONS BELOW TO IDENTIFY THE TYPE OF ELECTRIC FENCE BEST SUITED TO YOUR SPECIFIC NEEDS Electric Fence Options There are many kinds of electric fences directed against deer, and they have many different uses. The simplest merely seek to keep occasionally browsing deer out of summer gardens. They have one wire, at a height of about 3 feet, and typically feature baits that draw the neighborhood deer, shock them, and train them away from the protected garden before anything really tasty shows its face inside. Typical materials for such a fence include an electric fence charger, insulated electric fence wire, insulated wire for connecting the charger to the active wire, an active polywire mounted on insulators and fiberglass posts, metal posts supplementing the fiberglass posts at a gate and corners, gate and corner accessories, and a ground rod wired to the charger's negative terminal. For more information regarding this type of baited deer fence see About Our 1-Wire Kits. But what if you have more than occasional interlopers? What if you have a small herd threatening your garden? Or what if you want to protect a larger area? Or what if you want to protect your landscape plantings in winter when deer are starving and highly motivated to intrude? In all these cases you are likely to need something more than a simple one-wire electric fence. You could of course put more charged wires on the fence to discourage the deer from jumping the fence or nosing under it. That would help all right; but a better (and very affordable) solution is to add a second line of posts three feet behind the first and to put your new conductors (at heights of about 21 and 48 inches) on these new posts. That will have a great deal more deterrent power than just adding new wires. |