Our portable, solar-powered electric goat pen from Premier 1 Fencing appears to have befuddled this little clan. I've noticed before that deer will avoid whatever area the goat pen is set up in. This only a temporary solution. Wire cages for the little cider-apple trees will be next. The Gallagher solar charger is from Jax Ranch & Home.
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A horse grazes in the background as the solar charger keeps the anti-deer fence electrified.
Around here, apple trees without protective cages end up looking like this poor thing.
Trees that were caged from the start (background) do much better than their uncaged counterparts.
Gregg used a vise to bend 12-inch spikes from the Home Depot hardware department into sturdy stakes that keep apple tree cages in place.
The apple-tree eating marauders lurk along the fence. They have trimmed the foliage on this apple tree to their height, but the tree is now old enough, decades old, that they no longer try for its bark.