Can anyone help me with my Premier Electric poultry netting?

[WthrLady]

Is that part of the charger or fence....or did you add it later?

Just google "electric fence indicator light"
several styles come up. We had the white strobe one for a white, but it drove us NUTS.

 

[Kusanar]

Ya.....we run 10,000V plus on the bull fence. The first few nights the calves are learning are funny and sad at the same time. The coyotes forget it's there on occasion too. Ya....goofballs. The hens know where the dips in the grass are so they slide under like watermelon seeds, but they've learned to keep those heads down. Doesn't phase their feathery backs.

We tried to measure ours once, we got a bit over 7,000 but it somehow jumped the meter and shocked my dad so we only got part of 1 pulse before it was dropped.

 

[NHMountainMan]

It's a poultry net, set up mainly to scare off the odd neighborhood dog and give me the chance to get out there in time, should one arrive, although I wouldn't mind one that was as powerful as yours.

I use the poultry net around my chickens and beehives. My biggest concern had been keep bear out of the hives - Premier recommended baiting the fence to train the local predators. I tied bacon to the fence - and had bear, coyote and my own dogs learn not to go near the fence. If properly set up - it's a very solid psychological deterrent.

 

[Kusanar]

I use the poultry net around my chickens and beehives. My biggest concern had been keep bear out of the hives - Premier recommended baiting the fence to train the local predators. I tied bacon to the fence - and had bear, coyote and my own dogs learn not to go near the fence. If properly set up - it's a very solid psychological deterrent.

Apparently you can keep deer from a garden with just a few strands of hot wire, you do the same thing, put aluminum foil around the wires and cover in peanut butter. The deer will lick it and won't go back near that evil thing that attacked their tongues.

 

[NHMountainMan]

Apparently you can keep deer from a garden with just a few strands of hot wire, you do the same thing, put aluminum foil around the wires and cover in peanut butter. The deer will lick it and won't go back near that evil thing that attacked their tongues.

I do use it for my garden, using apple juice on a metal cap from a bottle.

 

[hayley3]

I had wanted an electric fence for a while but the 6ft grounding rod turned me off. The rest of the fence setup was easy enough but not the grounding rod, until I saw that Gallagher sold a 3 foot T-shaped rod, so that not only does it go in easy, you can pull it back up if needed. I want everyone who is thinking of trying an electric fence to know it's not that difficult and you get more protection for your birds.

 

[WthrLady]

We have rods sunk all over our property so I can just move fences around and hook up.

As long as you can get to the watertable/wet soil with a 3 footer, you're good.


We need the 6 foot on some of our property and nearer the natural spring, several 18 inchers are fine.

 

[Kusanar]

I had wanted an electric fence for a while but the 6ft grounding rod turned me off. The rest of the fence setup was easy enough but not the grounding rod, until I saw that Gallagher sold a 3 foot T-shaped rod, so that not only does it go in easy, you can pull it back up if needed. I want everyone who is thinking of trying an electric fence to know it's not that difficult and you get more protection for your birds.

Something I saw a while back and facepalmed because "well, why didn't I think of that???".... use your fence post as a ground rod! It is metal and sunk in the ground. If running stranded fence (rather than the netting), run 1 wire that is clipped directly to the posts with no insulators and use that wire as a ground. If the animal touches that wire and a hot one it gets zapped HARD, if it touches any of the hot wires but not the ground wire, they still get shocked because the ground wire has however many ground poles as you have fence posts.

 

[BackyardJulz]

When I set up my Premier1 fence for my goats, I also barely had a tingle. The standard ground rod clamp is for a larger diameter rod than the 3’ T ground rod, so it was too loose to get a good bite and connection. I moved the wire to under the clamp, instead of in the slot with the screw on top, and it sure fired up the fence quite snappy!

One of the reasons that you generally use a 6-8’ ground rod is to reach moist soil to help complete the circuit. The shorter, shallower T-rods might end up in dry soil if you’re short on rain or snow. Zareba fence charger mfg has a great diagram to show how we complete the circuit- unless you are wearing rubber shoes, which most critters don’t!

http://www.zarebasystems.com/learning-center/how-electric-fencing-works

 

[WthrLady]

Ya. We have some DEEEEEP rods here. Except the one we have sunk into the natural spring. that one is 4 feet, but it's secondary is 8, for when the spring drops in drought weather. We have chains of ground rods - three rods in series for each fencing unit. But that's what we need here.

I'm glad you figured out what you needed and got it to work.