Electric wire help!

[The Phantom]

If you install the PVC conduit properly, buried with els to bring the pipe above the soil and add fittings to prevent rain from entering, you can then bury it. You'll probably need a fishtape.
You'll also want to seal off the ends to keep spiders or any debris from getting in.

Ok

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Correct. Electric fencing works by sending a surge from the hot wire through the victim that is in contact with soil. Birds can sit on hot wires because they aren't in contact with ground. Same goes for a raccoon sitting on a building. You want to place the wire so the animal makes contact with it and the soil simultaneously.
The instructions that come with the electric fencing are pretty explanatory.

 

[The Phantom]

Correct. Electric fencing works by sending a surge from the hot wire through the victim that is in contact with soil. Birds can sit on hot wires because they aren't in contact with ground. Same goes for a raccoon sitting on a building. You want to place the wire so the animal makes contact with it and the soil simultaneously.
The instructions that come with the electric fencing are pretty explanatory.

So how do I have to set it up to shock them up there?

 

[Howard E]

Look at this setup again.



The white tape is the hot (+) wire. It is fully insulated from the ground. It makes an entire loop around the pen, but again, is insulated from the ground. It is connected to the hot wire (red clip) on the charger. As long as nothing is touching it, nothing happens.

The green wire clip is connected to the steel post, which is buried in the ground. The ground (litterally the ground you stand upon) then becomes the negative (-) counterpart to the hot wire. The two of them exist peacefully and nothing happens until an animal comes along and while standing upon the ground, touches the white tape. The animal now acts like a switch in the line and the current then flows from the hot wire to the ground through the animal, which feels it as a violent, painful, electric shock.

So you won't be burying anything. What you want to do is attach a hot wire (like the white tape) to insulators surrounding your pen and at the least, along the top of it. You can add as many as you like, including another like it along the base, where it will zap any animal that tries to rip it's way in or dig it's way in. All that matters is that the animal must also be standing on something that is connected to the ground. Literally the ground for a hot wire running around the bottom, or the fence the animal is climbing on for a higher up hot wire.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

 

[Howard E]

BTW, I don't normally suggest anyone trap coons as a routine matter (some do, but I don't). BUT, once a coon has had success, they may not give up so easy and it may help to snuff that one so it can't come back. For coons who have been bad, in addition to an electric fence. Belt and suspenders, so to speak.

This thread goes about what you are up against with coons, and as for traps and trapping, explaining how to do it. Best trapping option for coons is not a live trap, but a dog proof coon trap.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/coons-believe-it.1170361/

 

[ChickenCanoe]

You can also run the wire above ground on insulated posts.

You won't be zapping the raccoon on the building, you'll be shocking them before they climb on the building or into the pen. Unless the raccoons can climb down from trees onto the coop, or they can fly.

 

[Shamo Hybrid]

Are these electric fencing always 'ON' all the time, eating up electricity thus a higher electricity bill? Or do they just turn on when something touches the wire?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

BTW, I don't normally suggest anyone trap coons as a routine matter (some do, but I don't). BUT, once a coon has had success, they may not give up so easy and it may help to snuff that one so it can't come back. For coons who have been bad, in addition to an electric fence. Belt and suspenders, so to speak.

This thread goes about what you are up against with coons, and as for traps and trapping, explaining how to do it. Best trapping option for coons is not a live trap, but a dog proof coon trap.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/coons-believe-it.1170361/

Absolutely. I catch 10 raccoons in dog proof leg traps to every 1 I catch in a live trap. Same bait 20' apart.

 

[Howard E]

Are these electric fencing always 'ON' all the time, eating up electricity thus a higher electricity bill? Or do they just turn on when something touches the wire?

They are always on (which is why they work so well......always on guard, 24/7!!!), but use almost no electricity UNTIL something touches the wire.

A single charge on that 12 volt deep cycle battery (group 24) will last 2 to 3 months.