Electric strand fencing

Allen W · #21 03/04/14, 12:59 PM

I have a zareba 12 volt battery charger I bought when in a bind once, pretty weak and didn't get the job done. Any obstruction would knock it out. The 12 volt parmak I replaced it with has worked fine.

Silvercreek Farmer · #22 03/04/14, 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by WV Hillbilly

I fenced in goats with a regular electric fence that was 5 strands . In several years I had two escapees . One happened when a fighter jet on a training mission flew very low overhead & startled her . She was facing the fence & fairly close to it . She jumped straight through & didn't hurt herself or the fence .
The second time I had let the grass under the fence get too tall & I had unhooked the bottom strand . Eventually another doe figured out that bottom strand wasn't hot & started getting down on her knees & sticking her head under the fence to reach grass on the other side . There was plenty on her side but goats are goats .
We saw her doing that several times & my wife kept telling me she was going to get out & I said she would hit the next strand up before she got out & wouldn't . One day she was outside the fence .
I put her back in , weedeated under the fence & hooked the bottom strand back up hot . From a distance I watched to see her get her surprise but she just moseyed around nonchalent as could be . I got tired of waiting & turned & started back to the house . I hadn't gone 50 feet till I heard her squall . I turned around & she was back up in her field standing at attention . I knew exactly what had happened as soon as I turned my back & she knew I wasn't watching .
No dogs or anything else ever got in their field & those were the only two times any of them ever got out .
Goats are smarter than you think & interesting characters .

Mine know when the clicking stops the are free to roam. I can hardly go a day without having the charger on. My fencer was out due to lightning and my Billie was in the neighbors field cruising around. I yelled at him and he walked right back over to the low spot where he presumably got out and crawled right back in as well as a finely trained dog even though he won't even let you touch him and I don't feed treats. The same goat maintains my fence line very well. I think he feels the wire with his hair or his horns to guage how close he can get because he gets mighty close yet I've never seen him get popped while trimming.