Thread: electric fences

I was running one of the Innotek waterproof models at my last place due to a malamute that had escaped around 30 times at the previous property mainly from digging.

When i moved onto a 2acre property i installed the electric collar... my malamute tested it out a couple times in the first night then was fine from then on... she'd get to a couple metres from the fence and it'd start beeping at her which would make her turn around quicksmart. Very good system imho and can bu used to surround your entire property

Originally Posted by Slunnie

The wire will still corrode despite being Gal. I had the same thoughts, except to lay the excess over the ground so that the dog would walk onto it initially, though it is an expensive way of doing it and 5 acres is a hell of a lot of digging.

True it is. I thought I'd mention that because it is being done quite a bit over here to keep pests out of sensitive reserves. Fro example these guys have their fences in a number of parks. Seems to work very well.

Alan

either way .... you have to keep the dogs inside the property .... otherwise they will be blamed quickly for any "kills" .... and then they will have to be "put down"

that is most probably why the ranger is strict ... Cause HE is the one who will have to do it

Funny you should mention a malamute, Outlaw. very smart dogs.
I heard that one malamute worked out the perimeter system & would walk back and forth to activate the beep so as to flatten the battery. Once the battery was flat it could simply stroll out of the perimeter without getting zapped !!!

Originally Posted by rocket scientist

Funny you should mention a malamute, Outlaw. very smart dogs.
I heard that one malamute worked out the perimeter system & would walk back and forth to activate the beep so as to flatten the battery. Once the battery was flat it could simply stroll out of the perimeter without getting zapped !!!

That really wouldn't surprise me. Simba my Samoyed would probably just go to sleep next to the fence though while the coller went crazy. As a pup she used top dig under the fences, but shes too old and lazy these days - just tell her not to do it and she wouldn't.

An an electric fence put around a five acre property would always be for stock security. Just because you don't have the stock yet shouldn't stop you from preparing. Goats are always climbing under fences so you need to have the wire down low.

We don't use metal star pickets so all our fences are wooden and the wires passed through holes drilled through the posts. The way the electric fences are done around here with the drilled posts, is that the plain wire is insulated by a short length of 13mm poly pipe protruding about 50mm either side of the post.

If you place 1 wire about 150mm from the ground and a second at about 300mm from the ground. Initially you keep them both alive and the weeds down once the animals learn you can often turn the lower one off. Most perimeter electric fences are 5 or 6 wire for cattle, but once they learn about the "hot" wire a single wire is enough to keep them off pasture.

Not a hope with young stock, so full fences are the go.

Did someone also mention something about dogs and pets?

Diana

thanks for all the comments and suggestions.
wether people find it cruel or not, we definately need to do it as we've done the chicken wire thing with bricks but they eventually break through again.
it's like a disney movie up here where all the dogs break out and meet up for adventures in the day - i'm not kidding.
we have a new ranger who isn't very dog sympathetic and he's already shot 1 dog because he thinks it killed a few chooks - though on the same night 2 dozen were lost in all on 4 property's in total. which to me says a fox not a dog.
ours wont go anywhere when were home even at night but if left alone during the day then off they go. we generally hear about it off our neighbours as they are back by the time we get home and the last thing i want is to come home and find the ranger has one if not both to shoot them for killing chooks which i think would be a lot more cruel than a little zap to keep them in. i'll pop down the farm shops this weekend and get something sorted thanks again for all the replies.
jason

Originally Posted by taff

thanks for all the comments and suggestions.
wether people find it cruel or not, we definately need to do it as we've done the chicken wire thing with bricks but they eventually break through again.
it's like a disney movie up here where all the dogs break out and meet up for adventures in the day - i'm not kidding.
we have a new ranger who isn't very dog sympathetic and he's already shot 1 dog because he thinks it killed a few chooks - though on the same night 2 dozen were lost in all on 4 property's in total. which to me says a fox not a dog.
ours wont go anywhere when were home even at night but if left alone during the day then off they go. we generally hear about it off our neighbours as they are back by the time we get home and the last thing i want is to come home and find the ranger has one if not both to shoot them for killing chooks which i think would be a lot more cruel than a little zap to keep them in. i'll pop down the farm shops this weekend and get something sorted thanks again for all the replies.
jason

Hi Taff
It's not cruel to electrify the fence ... The dogs will pick up on it real quick and learn very quickly not to go near it

No different then when you say to a mate .... This is a spark plug lead ... Can you just hold it for a sec