electric fence for deer ?

My neighbor is feeding deer and deer are not welcome in my yard . Is an electric fence a sensible option ? What do I need and what should I know about them before going ahead ?
Thanks

I feed deer and my neighbors don’t like them cause they eat their flowers and bushes. I said its even cause the woodpeckers they feed pecked holes in my house.

To answer your ? get a dog.

I can’t say from experience other than a friend who lives in town.
He’s tried everything, including an electric fence.
He couldn’t keep them out no matter what he did.
He gave up gardening except for onions and garlic.

He tried 4 strands of Electric fence and they just got tangled up in it, he assumes and made a mess.

Now an 8 foot high fence all around your yard would work…

Unless the electric fence is 8 feet high you are wasting your money. I have seen deer clear a six foot privacy fence from a standing start. They are incredible athletes.

I have a 10′ high tension woven wire fence around my back plot and have seen deer clear that a few times.

If you’re in or adjacent to a CWD zone, report them.

Otherwise, buy a good slingshot and a bag of marbles. Deer don’t enjoy marbles in the a$$ at all.

Wrist rocket slingshot is good. I use the steel balls, recover them using a strong magnet on a stick.

If deer are not welcome in your yard, you shouldn’t have put your yard where deer live

My parents owned hunting property in Northern MN. There was a neighbor who had a shack up there who basically lived off the land. He would take bags of his feces and place them around the perimeter of his garden to keep the deer away. He swore by this method! Could be worth a shot.

The best method is a full sized dog that lives outside fulltime, something like a German Shepherd inside your fenced yard.

Yes, an electric fence will work to a large degree. My parents lived in northern MN with a high deer population and they used a fence successfully to keep deer away from their gardens and landscaping.

It’s not a 100% solution, but deer fear getting trapped somewhere, so unless you have a very high value food source inside the fence, most deer won’t risk getting inside a fence that’s even 5 feet high.

Also, when you put up the fence, don’t put lots of flags or “high vis” tape on it. Just let the deer walk into it and get zapped. Deer don’t understand what happened when they got zapped, they seem to just know that whatever it was, they want to stay far away from it. Which is just what you want.

The only downside is that when deer touch a fence, they run forward. So then you end up with a torn up fence until the deer learn to stay away. It’s just the price you pay, but just know that you have to check your fence a lot and watch your controller for the “down” signal.

Grouse

So, do you want to keep them out of your entire yard or just a garden? The sprays (Liquid Fence, etc) have actually worked really well for keeping them from devouring my garden, provided that I follow the directions as far as application frequency.

Just put up a sign that says,
“No Trespassing!
Deer this means You!”

I need to keep them off my septic field where they roam all over and tramp down the snow and also munch my wife’s plants. She has tried repellent but that is not an option during winter.

Maybe breeding wolves would be an option…