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judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Sun Mar 13, 11 10:43 am Post subject:

Hots wrote:

I have electric sheep netting around my veg plot to keep the bunnies off, is that what you want to know?

Never heard of people doing that before. How well did it work?

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45670
Location: Essex

Posted: Sun Mar 13, 11 10:44 am Post subject:
If your sheep get clever, kill them. We've got 46 of someones sheep on our land at the moment, one of them has been getting put through the 3 strand electric fence. Same one every time, always goes back in when you approach it. This morning he headed out and was followed by another 9 of his chums.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45670
Location: Essex

Posted: Sun Mar 13, 11 10:45 am Post subject:

judith wrote:

Hots wrote:

I have electric sheep netting around my veg plot to keep the bunnies off, is that what you want to know?

Never heard of people doing that before. How well did it work?

That's what we ended up doing, worked well

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Sun Mar 13, 11 10:46 am Post subject:
Don't they simply go underneath?

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45670
Location: Essex

Posted: Sun Mar 13, 11 10:46 am Post subject:

judith wrote:

Don't they simply go underneath?

The rabbits? They didn't here

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Sun Mar 13, 11 10:59 am Post subject:
When we put up poultry netting for the first time we had two occasions where hedgehogs were balled up when they'd touched the wire - the first one was dead, the second pootled off after I turned the fence off for a while - anyone else had this experience? I haven't had any do it since (2009).

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45670
Location: Essex

Posted: Sun Mar 13, 11 11:01 am Post subject:
We've never seen a hedgehog here

Melli-Jane

Joined: 09 Mar 2011
Posts: 272
Location: East Sussex

Posted: Thu May 05, 11 12:44 pm Post subject:

Hi- just picked this thread up...yes we have caught two hedgehogs and a toad in our poultry netting, going to switch it off and use single lines around it instead as it kills more than it deters and is a real pain to use.

We have various set ups on smallholding - stranded steel wire for the pigs and footpath perimeter with tensioners, normal plastic wire for everwhere else. My OH is an electronics engineer and runs it all from an energiser linked into a solar panel from Maplins with some batteries. If you are still interested I can take some pics.... for pigs we run the wire at about 4-6 inches off the ground at nose height and for the goats we have stock fencing and then run two rows one 3 inches above the stock fence and another 4-5 inches above that, keeps em in and predators out! For the chickens, 2 rows - one at nose height for foxes/dogs, another about 10 inches higher at jumping height. All works brilliantly and no losses to date...

Barefoot Andrew
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Joined: 21 Mar 2007
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Location: In the 17th century

Posted: Thu May 05, 11 1:27 pm Post subject:
That would be excellent - ta. A.

Duckhead

Joined: 24 Oct 2009
Posts: 2069
Location: Up the hill, Italy

Posted: Wed May 11, 11 4:11 pm Post subject:

I went to buy an electric fence today. The chap in the shop was more clueless than me. He suggested I save the price of an energiser and just put wire to battery

So, he is getting some differant energisers in next week, there were only two of the more expensive ones left, I want cheap.

I am going to buy the energiser, a battery and some 6" ish tape, as opposed to wire strands. I won't buy posts or clips as i can fashion something from the woods.

Would you like me to write about how I get on? It may be fun.

Oh, we are buying it so we can move the pigs around the place.

Cheers

RichardW

Joined: 24 Aug 2006
Posts: 8443
Location: Llyn Peninsular North Wales

Posted: Wed May 11, 11 7:37 pm Post subject:

Duckhead wrote:

I won't buy posts or clips as i can fashion something from the woods.

You do know that wood is not a good insulator? I know we are always told that it is but outside & with the high voltages it will leak the power.

Duckhead

Joined: 24 Oct 2009
Posts: 2069
Location: Up the hill, Italy

Posted: Thu May 12, 11 6:30 am Post subject:

RichardW wrote:

Duckhead wrote:

I won't buy posts or clips as i can fashion something from the woods.

You do know that wood is not a good insulator? I know we are always told that it is but outside & with the high voltages it will leak the power.

No I didn't know, plastic clips it is then.

Thank you for that.

RichardW

Joined: 24 Aug 2006
Posts: 8443
Location: Llyn Peninsular North Wales

Posted: Thu May 12, 11 7:43 pm Post subject:
Just for total clarity there are some wooden posts (Electro-Wood) that dont need insulator except for very long runs as the posts have been treated.

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