05/13/13, 06:50 AM
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aka avdpas77
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: central Missouri
Posts: 3,416
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I do not have goats yet, but I have used electric chargers for other animals for years.
THEY ARE ALWAYS OVERRATED! If you want a fence charger that will really work in all situations get the highest rated one you can afford.... anything says its a "20 mile" or a "40 mile" fence charger will usually turn out to be a joke, and you have spent your money for nothing. The important thing is the "joule (amount of energy) rating". Forget the "miles of fencing rating" it usually does not mean much and is very much a subjective advertising rating. A/C chargers are by far the best. You can put one in your barn and tie an overhead wire to trees, or run it along the top of the corral to get it to the place you need it. Figure on spending $180 or more....Don't do like I did and buy a $75 one, then a $125 dollar one and then finally spending what I should have in the first place.
Like one of the others said, correct grounding is supper important. That may be a challenge in places like southern Missouri where there is lots of rock. One can extend a ground wire along the fence to a place where there is deeper soil or a continuously damp place if necessary.
But the most important thing, is to spend the money on a high-joule charger in the first place, especially if you live in an area that has dry soils some of the year. In the Pacific Northwest or similar area, one could likely get by with one of the smaller ones. Since you have an existing woven wire fence, besides attaching the ground wire to the ground rods, attache it to the woven wire fence also.
Edited to add: That $185 price was about 8 years ago... suspect a good one now will cost $250 or more.
Last edited by o&itw; 05/13/13 at 01:11 PM.
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Try it again tomorrow maybe. Oh, I just got it up, took a long time but it did come up. Here is the link.
It has a one year warranty and you can purchase an extended warranty if you want. My warranty ran out and I lost a charger to lightening. I was going to replace it with a new one, but they said to send it in for repairs.....the repairs and shipping combined only cost me $30. I was a happy camper.
