fencing

House faerie · #1 03/05/10, 02:07 PM

What do you think of solar powered electric fencing for chickens, pigs goats?
Any advice/reccomendations?

Bearfootfarm · #2 03/05/10, 02:15 PM

Unless it's electric netting, it wont keep chickens in at all.
It's "iffy" on the goats.
Pigs do very well though since they learn fast, and are easy to shock

You may be better off to use "field fence", and run a couple of hot wires to keep the animals from digging under or leaning/climbing on it

House faerie · #3 03/05/10, 02:26 PM

Right, I was considering it in conjunction w other fencing.

suzyhomemaker09 · #4 03/05/10, 02:32 PM

On goats? absolutely would not recommend.
The old saying comes to mind....
" if it won't hold water, it won't hold a goat "

Bearfootfarm · #5 03/05/10, 03:28 PM

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Right, I was considering it in conjunction w other fencing.

Solar "may" work, but grid powered chargers are always better.
It takes a lot of shock to deter goats.
The chickens wont care either way, and the pigs , being basically hairless, will stay away from a loghtly powered fence

airotciv · #6 03/05/10, 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by House faerie

What do you think of solar powered electric fencing for chickens, pigs goats?
Any advice/reccomendations?

I have no idea on pigs, buts goat, it will never work. If they want out they Will get out and for chickens they will just fly over it. Recomendations, make your animals happy so they don't want to leave.

65284 · #7 03/05/10, 07:58 PM

You asked for recommendations so here are mine, based on 25+ years of using electric fencing. Forget solar fencers! Sunshine is great for growing tomatoes but lousy for keeping a fence hot.

Do it right the first time, buy the best, most powerful 110 volt charger you can afford; you will avoid a lot of trouble and aggravation and save money in the long run.

When you are using solar fencers you are also dealing with batteries, expensive batteries that will go bad at some point and may lose their charge after a number of short cloudy days. This will always happen at the most inopportune time possible.

A properly built fence with a good, correctly grounded charger will hold any stock that can be contained in this type fence.