Jessica and her mother, Nicole, 59, regularly walk their dogs around the fields and, speaking before the water firm removed the fencing, said there had been three separate cases of deer getting trapped within the past few weeks, all within a two-mile radius of each other.
Jessica said she had spent an hour setting one of the deer free, which eventually reached a point of “calmness” and allowed her to help it.
“I don’t know if they give up or if they’re so tired they just can’t fight anymore,” she said.
“It’s extremely distressing.”
On one of the occasions, she said two stags had become intertwined and one had died, describing it as a “harrowing situation”.
The fences were put in place by the water company to cordon off sections of fields where the firm was working on its Strategic Pipeline installation.
Jessica said she did not feel the water company had taken her complaints seriously enough when her family reported the incidents.