Coyote...

[varidgerunner]

I do a lot of trapping for coyotes in cattle country. There are six and eight strand high tensile fences everywhere, with very hot fence chargers on a lot of them. I see no indication that they cause coyotes hesitation in the least. You would need wires spaced around four inches and at least six feet high to keep coyotes out. For chicken enclosures you need woven or welded wire with strands of electric wire offset to cut down on climbing.

 

[Howard E]

Keep in mind that high tensile fences built to keep cattle, horses and other large livestock in are not the same as a low fence designed to keep predators out. Most predators can easily get past an electric cattle fence. They may come and go as they please and never touch it. Mostly they walk or crawl under it. Wires are spaced to high to stop them.

I've got coyotes, foxes and coons all around. We hear the coyotes tune up at sunset all the time......no more than a hundred yards or so across the road........in a neighbor's cattle pasture, yet I've never seen one in my yard or out where the chickens are running around in full view. Going on the 2nd year with this flock and have not lost a single bird to a predator yet, despite the fact that they are all around.

Birds are protected at night by a coop that nothing can get in, and protected by day by that fence. It's that simple.

 

[varidgerunner]

The idea that predators will come walking along and get zapped by your fence and then retreat in defeat and then avoid that area altogether is not a realistic view. These animals are aware of their surroundings and are not likely to blunder into your fence. It is my belief that some animals, having experience with electric fence, are very adept at sensing current by detecting em fields with their whiskers, or some other method. They don't seem to fear electric fence the way people think they do, they adapt to them.