electric fencing

[Magnolia Ducks]

What size is your charger? If the coyote are truly climbing it, it would collapse so that is unlikely. They are more likely jumping over it. If you could raise the height of your fence to something more like 6', they would be forced then try to climb and they would get hit with the fence. But the charger has to be strong enough to deter.
My 90# Doberman hit my net once. Once. He will not even look at the chickens now.

It's 8000 volts the coyote climb it. I can see where they get in to eat. That's why I stiffened the fence. But they still climb over. Not deterred by the charge.

 

[Jenn1018]

What state do you live in?
Fox are by far my worst predator. This time of year until about August is prime time fox activity in my area. They are feeding kits in the spring/summer and teaching them how to hunt by late summer.

I'm in Georgia, about 40 miles north of Atlanta. Guess I have to be worried all summer than, and I thought winter was the worst time

 

[Jenn1018]

It's 8000 volts the coyote climb it. I can see where they get in to eat. That's why I stiffened the fence. But they still climb over. Not deterred by the charge.

oh my goodness that's discouraging...thought the electric fence was going to solve all my predator problems.

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

Me too. It seems to have solved raccoon and bobcat but not coyote. I am amazed the coyote climbed back out with a 20lb goose

 

[paneubert]

It's 8000 volts the coyote climb it. I can see where they get in to eat. That's why I stiffened the fence. But they still climb over. Not deterred by the charge.

It isn't really the voltage that shocks. Whats the amperage or joule rating of the charger? Is it well grounded with multiple grounding rods?

I have played with a Tesla Coil that was putting out 500,000 volts, but extremely low amperage. Yeah it felt funny and seeing an arc of electricity jump 6 inches to my hand is weird, but it was easy to sustain the arc going into my fingers/hand for essentially as long as I wanted to.

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

I don't know, you have vastly exceeded my knowledge. I order poultry netting and charger from Premier1 which they claimed would deter coyotes. I got the 48 inch for that purpose. The coyote are very happy the ducks and geese are closed in a fence, the better to eat them by.

 

[paneubert]

I don't know, you have vastly exceeded my knowledge. I order poultry netting and charger from Premier1 which they claimed would deter coyotes. I got the 48 inch for that purpose. The coyote are very happy the ducks and geese are closed in a fence, the better to eat them by.

Ohh well. Sad that it isn't keeping the predators out. I wonder if the netting is not working since as soon as they have all 4 legs off the ground, they won't be shocked. Unless that brand of netting alternates positive and negative strands in close proximity to each other. Which I doubt they do. If they are in fact jumping onto the netting, it is logical that they are not being shocked. But if they even had one paw still on the ground when they started to climb, it should shock them.

 

[Jenn1018]

im just going to put a dome over my entire house and yard

 

[Howard E]

This may help....

https://kencove.com/fence/7_Volts+vs.+Joules_resource.php

If coyotes or other animals, up to and including bears, are touching an electric fence and are not being deterred, something is wrong. The most common issue when properly built E fences fail is the fence has shorted out so the voltage on the line has dropped to the point the shock is not enough to deter. But lots of other reasons why......bad or inadequate ground system (including dry.....read low conductive.... soil), low battery charge or too small fence charger lacking enough horsepower (joules) to maintain voltage on the line. So too much weed growth (which bleeds off....dilutes shock), shorting out...fence touching a grounded object like a steel post......, not enough joules to power through resistance of the length of line, etc.

All fence testers measure voltage. Should be 5,000 volts minimum but 7,000+/- is considered ideal. More than that and you risk induction.....voltage (think of voltage as pressure....high voltage is a high pressure system) is so high charge will "jump the gap"......to close the circuit. It will resemble a spark plug on a gasoline engine. I heard mine snapping the other day and found a dandelion stem had grown too close to the wire and spark was jumping across to fry it. I heard the spark snapping from over 100 feet away. That fence tested to 14,700 volts. That is a 3 joule fencer rated to power up to 30 miles of fence, but only working on no more than 1/4 mile of actual wire fence. It is running wide open. Animals that touch that head for the horizon at warp speed......and don't come back.

So build your fence......test it......then bait it to hasten journey to discovery.

E-fence protecting by day, tight coop that nothing.....absolutely nothing....can get into at night......and you will have done your part to keep your birds alive and unharmed.

 

[Willowspirit]

I noticed reading this that some of the time folks seemed to be talking about netting and some of the time they seemed to be talking about fencing. I'm thinking they aren't the same things?