Another way to provide a positive sure ground ... is to just lay down some 1"X 3" welded wire, and secure with rocks/blocks, or tent peg type or garden staple/anchors around your coop ... hook your ground wire to that fencing ...
Bee keepers do this for bears, they step on the fencing on the...
Correct, only underground "might" be effected ... and the electric utility power line "should" be very well protected by not only a insulating sheath, but inside a conduit/pipe, not sure how they do things up there though ...
If you have real rocky ledge type ground, you could try laying the...
No, I'd only do one to start with ... close by your coop.
If they get a good zap with one, number 2 & 3 rods won't make a difference ... now if you were really trying to feed 10 miles of fence, then probably you would need all three ...
There is a slight possibility that the grounding system...