Advice on electric fencing for goats

[Birdsong 82]

American Farmworks is junk... it doesn't have the power of other brands, even though the label states it should. They all crap out within a year, or less....

You don't *have* to use solar, but solar does allow you to be very "free" in the placement of the fencing. With solar, you do not have to worry about a power source...

Pulsating means low-impedance "pulses" of current - it is not a steady "flow" of power. It sends out surges that zap the animal and surprise it. It is nothing like getting shocked by a downed power line or a wet hairdryer - fence chargers do not "grab" onto you and hold you/paralyze you. Fence chargers just startle the animals (or human if we touch it!). To me, it feels like someone punched me in the chest. It truly does hurt, but the pain doesn't really linger. The pulses also generally eliminate the chance of the fence starting a grass or brush fire if a weed or branch touches the fence...

Do not buy a cheap charger off of Amazon, either. Premier actually did an online article about a year or so ago, talking about the foreign-made chargers being marketed on Amazon with incorrect labeling, that HAD started grass fires because they were NOT low-impedance.

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Rather buy a decent one once in a blue moon than junk that falls apart in a year. If I can use AC than that evens things out a bit