06/25/06, 03:51 PM
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I can't answer your question about wiring the two systems together, but I do have experience with electric net fencing on a solar charger -- it might keep a coyote out if it isn't very hungry, I doubt that it would keep a determined bear out, and it probably won't keep stray dogs out if they are large and determined enough to jump over it. I KNOW it won't keep either sheep or goats *in*. Someone here a while back said the electronet fencing works much better with an AC charger, if you can keep your fencing close to where it can be plugged in, or run a feeder line out to it.
We used it for both sheep and goats, and one black lamb quickly learned that if he pushed the bottom ground (not hot) wire up with his nose, he could slide out underneath without getting shocked. Of course everybody else was soon following him. We also had constant problems with animals getting their heads caught in the fence and having to be cut out (which made a royal mess of the fence in short order), and we lost one lamb who got tangled in the fence when we weren't home. It also offers *no* physical barrier to panicked animals. Ours stampeded right through it when they were spooked by fireworks on the Fourth of July.
The only way I would ever use electronet again would be with a plugged-in charger, not a solar powered one. And then I would only use it under close supervision, and within a sturdy boundary fence.
Kathleen
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