Deer Killed in Fence

Fergienewbee · Apr 23, 2013

I put up a 2 x 4 wire fence around an old house and along the road to keep my beagles from the road. I attached the top of the fence to the high-tension wire with zip-ties, The bottom is attached with hog rings. A deer ran into the fence and broke some of the zip-ties. I found her inside the fenced area. The fence is only four feet tall. I don't know why she didn't jump it. Something must have been chasing her. Don't know what killed her. I used my tractor to haul the fence and to mow the brush before I put it up.

Larry

Royse · Apr 23, 2013

She probably didn't see it.
If you tie some old rag strips to the fence, white or
light/bright colored they can see it easier.
Anything that contrasts with the surroundings.
Might save your fence from damage too.

rrlund · Apr 23, 2013

In 2001 I put up all new 5 strand barbed wire around 2 40 acre places. That first fall and winter those things were smashing in to those fences left and right,breaking wires and stretching them. That was about all the time it took for them to figure out where they were. I don't think it's happened since.

John B. · Apr 23, 2013

The dear may of been hit by a car or truck then ran that far till it couldn't go any more. I saw a dear in the field along a major highway the other day. The dear was curled up like it was sleeping but you could tell there was no life in it.

Richard G. · Apr 23, 2013

I have seen a dead buck with his antlers stuck in a chain link fence. Don't know if he had been shot or he hit the fence hard and killed himself.
Richard

Buckeye · Apr 23, 2013

I had a little doe break it's back trying to jump through a woven wire fence.

Fergienewbee · Apr 23, 2013

Royse;

I"ll try that--as soon as I get my fence back up. Thanks.

Larry

Anonymous-0 · Apr 23, 2013

this bothered Me for a while when I found it , and it will break your heart ... went to a vacant farmstead to cut the hay ,sumthin was dead there I could smell it , came up on a woven wire fence with 2 strands barb wire on top ..a big buck was dead ..it seems he jumped the fence andhis back leg went between strands of barb wire and caught in the yop square stave ,, his leg was nearly yanked off ,,from his struggle ,,. from the looks of it he must a suffered 4 or more days,, lot of ground pawed up ...

Hammer house · Apr 23, 2013

Deer have bad luck when they get in fence and cannot get out and die. Well sometime A horse get in A fence and cannot get out.
lucky someone found this one. This was not my horse.

Hammer Man

RalphWD45 · Apr 24, 2013

I had a wild gelding, that I was breaking bare back do the same thing. He ran straight at the wovenwire fence, and jumped it. one of his back legs went between the 2 top strands of barbed wire and twisted them togeather, which stopped him in midair. I didn't stop. when I picked myself up, and got my wits back,ran and got a pair of wire cutters, and released his leg. I had to doctor that ankle for over a month.

2x4 · Apr 24, 2013

that happened to a couple of deer right after I put up a new woven wire fence with a strand of barbed wire 6" above it. Seems they judge the jump to clear the woven but not the barbed. After that, no problems. Seemed like they had to learn a lesson from the deaths. They could have cleared the barbed wire easily if they had wanted. As a friend of mine noticed "Deer are a lazy animal; they only clear any obstacle by just enough no matter how high it is."

Mark W. · Apr 24, 2013

Great picture. Love the laughing hereford!

patiolant · Apr 24, 2013

We put up 8 foot high elk fencing around our garden area to keep the deer out. Finished everything but the gate before the daylight ran out. By the next morning a dozen deer had walked through the gate and were in the fenced area. Trying to herd deer back through the gate was worse than trying to herd cats. A few went through the gate, a few forced their way through the woven wire, and one small doe actually jumped the 8 foot fence. Wish I had a video of it.

Mike (WA) · Apr 24, 2013

I think the cow got photo-shopped in- I've seen the picture before, without Hereford.

Fullers Farmalls · Apr 24, 2013

There is a pretty popular picture on the internet that shows a deer jumping a fence that had the decorative spikes on top... Well one caught his special area and impaled it and the other went through his leg. Ought. Still haunts me to see it and I won't post it here.

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