I can see this topic easily going political!

I think it's more climbing than jumping...........

I really dislike wire panels around a feeder. Unless you have a tower blind of some sort I wouldn't use them. I can't count the number of cow panels I've seen shot up over the years from guys trying to shoot through them. Now I do used them for the sides but make the front and back sides out of 3 strand barbwire. We do have a couple cows that will jump into a hog panel pen but so far they haven't decided to get into this one?

I think I have only shot one deer ever inside a feeder pen. I am constantly glassing the terrain around the feeder and will wait for a good shot before they jump in. Granted we have a couple of feeders with no pen on purpose, so as to attract hogs.

I should've been more specific. It didn't even cross my mind that some of ya'll have to deal with cattle. I don't have any cattle where I hunt, but I do have a hell of a hog population. I'd like to build a pen that's just tall enough to keep the hogs out, but low enough to let the fawns in. Is there an ideal height for that?

Use hog panels and cut a few of the top squares out so fawns can jump in. Aggies have a study out there. I Think they said 28 inches was low enough.

That's what I was looking for. Thank you sir.

Buy 16 foot hog panels from Tractor supply. They will keep the hogs out but the deer have no problem jumping the fence. Now, I'm not sure about a six week old fawn.

Very nice setup, I am going to use this design on the next pen I put up.

Thats slick!

hog panels. cow issue was solved with keeping all green grass out of the pen and running 2 strands of that nasty 4 barbwire.

using eliminator spinners helps a lot too IMO. The feed gets dispersed so well they don't seem to hone in on it at all. plus it gets tossed out of the pen a bit for the hogs and turkeys to clean up. Its a pen feeders that attracts everything...

I tried Cutting the panels in half. Worked great the first year. No pigs. Then one day a big pig got in, then another and another. Nothing worse then tearing it down in the heat and trying to put the other halves back on. I will Use hog panels for now on. I will Say that I think The 50" panels may detour some bucks from wanting in. Just my 2 cents and definitely detour some does.

The overall size of the pen deters more deer when you start raising the height of the panels. I went from a 34" hog panel to a 50" cattle panel on a pen where I had a bull jumping into the pen and tearing the panels up. The 50" heights stopped the bull but did not slow the deer down at all. Same pen size as before when it was 34" panels. One dominant buck or doe inside to small of a pen is going to keep deer from jumping in. I have that issue at a corn feeder in front of my house right now with 5 34" hog panels around it. I only get the same 2 bucks in the pen and the rest stay outside of it due to the attitude of those two bucks. If those bucks are not there then 3 or 4 of the other bucks will jump into the pen.