Not sure i like premier1 electric fence

I wasn't overly impressed with the charger we got from Premiere all those years ago, and at this point we don't have our fences hooked up to chargers. But for our horse fencing we use Parmak chargers and they work really well.

Aart, I purchased extra poles that are the same that come with the fence straight from premier1.
I like thing to match lol.

My charger is the patriot PS155 and seems to be working fine It is the solar one.

The dogs are now coming into the yard with me and stay about 10' away from it. Thankfully they are back to doing zoomies and playing around the rest of the yard. Now I'm pretty dang happy with the fence.

Thanks for the replies. I know absolutely nothing about chargers but what I have read, which can be confusing to someone who has no experience, I have read alot of problem stories about them. This thread directly addresses two of the problems I have read about the most, sagging and shorting out.

I can't afford to buy the wrong charger, then have to buy the right one. Would rather spend more now for more capacity / better functionality so I can avoid problems right off the bat and expand the fenceline without another charger in the future. Predators are the main reason I want the power net fencing. I know that there are alot of predators around, but I won't know just what I will have problems with until I put some chicken dinners out there.

Pathfinders said:

I wasn't overly impressed with the charger we got from Premiere all those years ago, and at this point we don't have our fences hooked up to chargers. But for our horse fencing we use Parmak chargers and they work really well.

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You don't power your premiere? No predators? Do you have other predator deterance or did you just use the power long enough for them to lose interest?

shamrockmommy said:

Aart, I purchased extra poles that are the same that come with the fence straight from premier1.
I like thing to match lol.

My charger is the patriot PS155 and seems to be working fine It is the solar one.

The dogs are now coming into the yard with me and stay about 10' away from it. Thankfully they are back to doing zoomies and playing around the rest of the yard. Now I'm pretty dang happy with the fence.

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Thanks. Where are you located? Would like to go solar due to the cost of running power from the source to the fence area, but don't know if my area would provide enough sunlight to keep the thing powered.

Nope. We don't currently have our poultry netting attached to a charger. We only day range our birds, and their pen is next to the goat pen, in which our Anatolian Shepherd Dog lives. He deters most predators, including hawks.

I will say there was one evening when we didn't get the coop closed up early enough when my younger daughter found a possum in the coop eating eggs (this was over Christmas break, when she was home from college.) She went up without a flashlight, and dimly saw a shape on the floor by the nest boxes. Being a tender-hearted thing, she worried one of the hens was ill, and went to give her a little pat and ask her if she was feeling all right.

But wait. This was not feathers she felt as she stroked the "bird."

She came running down the hill screaming. I went back up with her, and because it was the day after the Newtown slaughter, and I was feeling very anti-gun, I did not want to kill anything. I was a very young possum. I took a stick and poked it out of the coop, and off it trundled. It has not been back, and we have been very diligent about closing up before dark ever since.

I suppose we should put a charger on it, given that the fencing alone didn't keep the possum out. But as long as we close up before dark, it's not an issue for us. Most of the predators we deal with only come out at night, and the coop, once closed, is like Fort Knox. I have bolted hardware cloth over the windows and have anti-theft bars on the inside (due to thieves who stole chickens from us once before, but that's another story.) So it's really more to keep the chickens in for us than it is to keep the predators out at this point.

I'm in northern Virginia. Only been set up for a week but working fine so far.

I read and saw videos of many chicken massacres.So i used an 12 volt charger connected to a big battery with a solar panel.I used ground rods every ten feet. Its really a rush when you get zapped! I used wire rope with a built in ground setup,cant get to good of a ground here when its dry.
My plans for the future is for a forty foot long by twenty wide electric fence with poultry netting on top.For a chicken run.To many flying critters where i live.
I dont have to many weeds but well consider putting something under the wire at the bottom.I also plan to put a few wood fence poles at corners to help brace the wire.
I read this and thought man i have some kinda chicken addiction!