I buy fencing at Lowe's, 50 feet for about $48.00, that usely cure the problem with deer but not for armadillo's, it's 60" high. It does not look good in certain neighborhoods but for me it works pretty good.

This one reads well, rather like we heard back before Internets and the like.

Construct a Chicken Moat for Effective Garden Pest Control -

10 ft. high deer netting stapled to peeler poles is pretty economical and effective. Not terribly visible either. After installation you do of course have to do a little monitoring and tweaking to make sure it is remaining attached and in position, doesn't get blackberries growing through it and the like.

Problem with a chicken moat is it doubles the cost of your fencing. I would do an electric fence with a solar charger if no power around.

Just setting here I cannot visualize how an electric fence is a deterrent to deer. I visualize deer as jumping over a fence, not touching it.

Eight ft is the minimum for a normal vertical fence. Anything shorter they will jump without even thinking about it. Our local Cooperative Extension used to recommend angled fences, but I don't remember the specs on those - something like 5 ft at a 60 deg angle. From the deer's perspective it is a bad combination of height and distance.

The local orchards use Embothrium's recommendation of 10 ft poles and netting. Local nurseries in the woods look like minimum security prisons, 10 Ft chain link with barbed wire on the top.

I have a 6’ fence around my watermelon patch. The deer could jump over it but they seem to prefer to just go where it is easier to eat. Though in my case at least they have several acres to wander and eat.

Wire fence make circles so can't reach over eat off young plants in spring when new growth starts tie dryer sheets to wire add new ones after rains leave old ones on they want come around smell soap in sheets. If fence in orchard still need use dryer sheets. Check for tracks around orchard. They come after any thing you do in orchard the smell stay there 3 are 4 hours after leave for day. 20 to 30 minute they come watch from inside house out window if they around they come up. Fishing line on spinning reel makes cheapest fence your wooded line for post.

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. We have been reading up quite a bit on the web. we have to fence in a few areas... chicken coop and roaming area, vegetable garden, the small orchard and another separate area for our beagle, so we are talking about a lot of fence and cost is a factor. This is what we are planning to do... we will do 10 ft t-post, so 2 ft in the ground, and 8 feet above. We will then use the 6 ft high fencing on the t-post and rub 2 horizontal single strand wires about the fence to make up the 8 ft height.

Do it sound reasonable?

That would work great. That is basically what we have but I only have a 4 foot fence with two strands of barb wire above it

our subdivision is several thousand acres lots range from one to 10 acres and we have several thousand deer. unfortunately we are not allowed to build a fence over 6 ft tall and all fences must pass hoa committee... our newest neighbors were not aware of the fence restrictions and built a really nice, super expensive fence around their newly planted garden and orchard, the next week the fence builder was back cutting all the posts and wires down to 6 feet...it was a sad sight...

My set-up plain and simple, cheap, no deer problem.

I wasn't recommending the electric for the deer, he said he is surrounded by woods. Stopping deer will be nice with a tall fence but possums, raccons, squirrels will climb/chew through plastic fencing only electric will stop them. Trapping doesn't work that well new animals will just replace the ones removed.