Deer fencing is a type of fence engineered to exclude or contain deer and or elk. Typical applications include:
- Preventing deer browsing (surrounding bushes for example)
- Surrounding a small area like a garden where deer can travel all the way around
- Creating backyard area (starting at a house, going into a backyard area, then back to the house again)
Surrounding the complete perimeter of an area (along a complete property line) – this can include wide driveway gates to protect driveways
A deer fence kit is a selection of fencing, fence posts, accessories and hardware to build a complete fence to keep out deer starting from nothing.
Our deer fences are not electric and cannot fail due to broken wires, dead batteries, etc. They are engineered to keep out many different animals besides deer, depending on the options you choose. They also make great pet fences to keep in dogs and with special no climb hardware, cats
There are 1000+ fence kits, combinations and options within each of these types of deer fences.
The purpose of this page is to help you compare the choices to best select the deer fence you need for your project.
In general, most deer fence customers select:
- A deer fence with overlap. This type of deer fence includes extra fencing overlapped and staked to the ground to the outside of the area. This acts as a dig deterrent and covers small ups and downs in your landscape deer can use for entry. Deer will use their noses to try and push up the base of a fence or believe it or not slide under sideways. This type of deer fence with overlap can be one piece (for example an 8 foot roll of deer fence installed at 7 ½ foot above ground leaves you 6 inches of extra fence to overlap) or an extra separate layer of smaller opening size metal bottom fence (1x1 keeps out rabbits for example, 1/2x1/2 keeps out large snakes).
- A poly deer fence or poly deer fence with a chew barrier base. Deer don’t chew and poly fence has properties that make it a great deer fence. Poly deer fence doesn’t have memory (if it’s hit it returns to it’s original shape unlike metal that once bent stays bent). Poly deer fence is also lightweight, very strong and inexpensive. The most popular type of deer fence is a poly deer fence paired with a smaller opening size steel chew barrier base to exclude other animals like rabbits and groundhogs.
- A 7 ½ foot deer fence. The minimum suggested height for small garden areas up to 100 linear feet is 6 feet. Other areas: 7 to 7 ½ feet for areas up to 500 linear feet and 8 feet or taller for areas over 500 linear feet. This is a general guide and not a rule please use your own judgement. For example, if you are wrapping bushes like arborvitae to prevent deer damage, 6 feet tall will work for any footage length. In general the less space deer have to be able to jump inside an area, the shorter the deer fence can be – they are less likely to try and jump inside a 25x25 area than a 300 foot perimeter fence. The deer fence trend is to enclose an entire area as opposed to encircling specific garden areas with deer fence because it can be more cost effective.
Below are our deer fence kits separated by type: