They're putting up a high fence directly across the road from my front gate. I've watched the feeder there in front of the house and the other morning there were 32 deer out there and 90% came over from that place. How can I keep the suckers on my side and keep them out of the "cage". We've got so much natural feed for them right now (acorns, greens, and such) that corn just can't hold them. Any help is appreciated.

Stop whinning!!!!!

Bishop if you weren't my friend I'd be offended. Remember up until that post I was gonna take you down there.

LOL!!! Now thats funny, I don't care who r, if you can't laugh at that you need to jist got off this site right now cuz thats funny right dere. Danged ole high fence man dang.

If it were me i would put more feeders on my place up towards the gate and set them about 3 minutes later than theirs. I would collect a bunch of cigarete butts and that stuff they put out on crops to deter deer from getting into the crops, i would get that stuff and put it all around their place after the deer were on my place. That is what i'd do.

You have a right to be worried, and I feel your pain. I used to have a place that I called the meat market. I took it for granted until one year they high fenced the place across the road. My meat market turned into a meatless market and a waste of time. Deer on my side didn't find my area attractive anymore even with my feeders going. There was still deer there but the times I didn't see deer outnumbered the days I did.

the ranch next door to us covers two sides of our lease. last year the fenced in 2 miles. the place just resold and i meet the new owner. i asked so are you going to finsh fenceing the rest of it. he said not to soon. but its coming. so im not looking forward to it.

My main concern is you know dang well they are doing the same thing on their side trying to get everything they can over there. But, we've gotten so much rain that everythings green and grown up down there that they don't want corn, don't need protein, and could care less about molasses and such.

Put out plenty of water and feed. If they are content with what they have they may stick around. Look for them to wait until most of the vegetation dies off and they will feed like crazy and close off the fence when they think it's time. Not much else you can do.

Unfortunately, hope is about all you can do...I mean you can definately try attracting and holding them with food, water and the like. What gets me is that if these people would do their homework and maybe talk to a biologist, they'd be informed that once they high fence an entire place and don't leave crossovers and such, that their deer herd will begin to behave as penned animals. By this I mean that their breeding slows down, conception is affected and you get too much inbreeding. You must give the herd the ability to get out and mingle with the surrounding deer to keep the genetics at a natural level. I feel for you Cody and I think that high fencing should be illegal unless it's used to keep deer off or out of crops. However, I have personally seen big bucks jumping right over 8-10 game fences.

well try this. Go to your local barber and ask him to save all the cut hair. Then swipe your ol' ladies nylons, add one rock, a bunch of hair and any other nasty thing you can think of. Then one night you and your buddies take a hike and bomb these things all over the property. The nylons act as camo so no-one will see them.

If the place isn't fenced yet and the wind was right a good out of control "controlled burn" may work wonders. Not that I would suggest doing anything illeagle.
I have a friend who owned land right next door to the Celebrity ranch in north Erath county. He told me that after they built the high fence he never saw any deer. His place is maybe 360 acres. The following year I was at the Hunters Extravaganza. I was listening to the son of the guy who owns the Celebrity Ranch talking to another guy. He said they put in food plots in the middle of the ranch and attracted all the deer in the area and then put up the fence. I spoke up and told him I thought it was chicken sh*t and that a friend of mine was his neighbor. He asked who my friend was. I told him my friends name. The guy shut up, turned around and walked off.
I have some other friends that live across the road still and they are starting to see more deer again. It has taken ten years for the deer "outside" the fence to start getting a population going again.
I dont like high game fences either. But....I did hunt inside one before at the Chaparrel WMA two years ago. I saw first hand what a good managment program can do there. They dont do any supplemental feeding of protien but the deer are awesome there.

We had a deer lease in Duval ( Freer )last year that was 1100 acres it had hight fence on 3 sides.The way the lease set there were 5 sides so 2 were still open .We seen 5 deer all year long !!! We dont hunt there any more !!
What I would do if I was you .Put as many feeders as you can on your place to try to hold all the deer. I think alot of high fence places run deer by plane on to there place before the put the fence up .Did you know that once the fence is up and they have a servey done the TP&W will sell the does cheep.

What are you talking about TPW selling the does? Only if you have MLD, or scientific breeding permit, can you have deer pens and trap, tag, dart and trasnport deer. That is my understanding.

As far as running deer onto other ranches before the fence goes up, I am sure it does happen, but that is not the practice. They guy flying the helicopter has to be licensed for what he is doing and you cannot stay on a deer very long as you would be "harrassing" the animal". You can fly and survey the land for a deer count.

A guy across the road from us in S. Texas put up a fence and a few months later did a helicopter survey....they say one doe. That makes his management pretty darn easy, but his hunting pretty poor.

I am of the opinion, that if a land owner wants to high fence his property, then that is their right. But deer are the property of the state of Texas. Once a high fence is completed, then the TPW should survey the enclosed deer herd and bill the land owner for confiscation of state property. Michigan does this.

Hey Bradbury, how bout the bucks? Did they try and lewer just the bucks?

That's a good idea. They are taking away from what a licensed hunter had a possibly right to.

No joke! We've got some dang good deer that we've been cultivating for years! Feels like I'm getting robbed!

we have 1800 acres near meridian and the border ranch decided to high fence it...their money and we are high fenced on 3 sides...whata deal...sure you will lose some deer but they are fencing out genetics as well...plus I dont have to feed their deer anymore...some places,NOT ALL,will run deer with helicopters and pull the fence up,if you are worried about this then find out when they plan to pull the fence up...and be there that day with a video camera...its been done before...I didn`t like it when it started but did not see a great decline in our population...good luck...