Re: Horizontal Deer Fencing

**fran gustman f*@juno.com**

What is a cattle guard?

Urban lady,
Fran

On Wed, 04 Dec 2002 13:47:16 -0700 Margaret Lauterbach
<melauter@earthlink.net> writes:
> In the western U.S., cattle guards are often just painted stripes on 
> 
> pavement.  I've wondered if stripes of plastic laid flat in a guard 
> pattern 
> would deter deer from entering.  paint on gravel roads doesn't work, 
> since 
> it's easily obscured by blowing dust.  Margaret L
> 
> >\
> >If you must go horizontally, a barrier composed of cattle guard 
> would
> >be more to the point, since it has been proven that deer will not
> >cross this type of  barrier...means digging a trench tho' that has 
> to
> >be over 5' wide.
> >
> >
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